[Ham-Mac] microham on a mac

[Jim Lee]

On 5/29/12 9:21 AM, Andrew Madsen wrote:
> The instruction to list files in /dev to find out if USB to serial adapter hardware is setup correctly is basically correct, but the exact command to type isn't really optimum. System Profiler won't tell you anything particularly useful as it will report the presence of the adapter regardless of whether the driver is (properly) installed or not. Do this instead:
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> Open Terminal, and type (or copy/paste) the following line *exactly* as it appears below (spaces matter):
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> ls /dev/tty.*
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> You should see a list of all tty devices available on your Mac. Two of them will be the built in Bluetooth adapter (tty.Bluetooth-Modem an dtty.Bluetooth-PDA-Sync). Ignore those. If your adapter is connected, and the driver is installed*and everything is working properly*, you'll also see an entry for it.
The presence of a device entry in the /dev folder simply means that 
MacOS found a driver that matches the device ID of a piece of hardware 
that was plugged in.  It will not tell you if the device, the driver, or 
the link between them is working properly.

73,
Jim W7JLL