[Ham-Mac] microham on a mac

[Dave Wright]

As a wise old man once told me..."if you don't break it, you don't know how
to fix it."

That being said; yes, it is quite possible to hose up the system running as
root.  However, only editing the driver's plist file wouldn't do that.


Dave
K3DCW
www.k3dcw.net

"Real radio bounces off the sky"


On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Jim Lee <jlee54 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Running as root, editing plist files, using the command line - these are
> all non-ham related things that one must thoroughly understand first in
> order to do anything useful with them.  You sound as though you're
> stabbing in the dark, and that is the quickest way to render your Mac
> unusable.
>
> I built my own USB to serial interface, so I don't have a suggestion for
> you other than to research the available commercial offerings and choose
> one that has strong Mac/Unix support.  This is not the kind of problem
> that can be solved easily via mailing list.
>
> 73,
> Jim W7JLL
>
>
> On 5/29/12 12:31 PM, Kevin Bottorff wrote:
> > how do I get into some plist files?
> > On May 29, 2012, at 2:04 PM, Kevin Bottorff wrote:
> >
> >> yes I got the current drivers from FDTI's web site. the instructions
> said if you want to del there drivers you had to login as root. I was going
> to try this and re-install but I don't think it will do any good. I bought
> this thing because they said they support mac now I think I wasted my money
> This is all new to me and is is very frustrating Thank you
> >>
> >>
> >> P.s. any suggestions for a digital interface for mac?
> >> On May 29, 2012, at 1:16 PM, Don wrote:
> >>
> >>> Personally, I think the problem is that the driver that the microHam
> >>> software was written for is long gone and that the current driver(s)
> are
> >>> incompatible. I gave up after talking to microHam when they said that
> >>> they have not turned on a Mac for years.
> >>>
> >>> Don KF7DS
> >>>
> >>> On 5/29/2012 8:03 AM, Kevin Bottorff wrote:
> >>>> I have a mac book running osx 10.7.4 Just bought my first digital
> interface, A micro ham usb interface lll. I went to install drivers from
> FTDI from cd sent with from microham with no luck. I then downloaded latest
> drivers from FTDI with same results. I went to terminal as they instructed
> and typed cd/dev ls-l it says no file found. Not sure what to do
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>                                        Thanks
> >>>>                                      Kevin
> >>>>
> >>>>
>
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