[Ham-Mac] Renaming USBtoUART ID's

[Alan Bomberger]

It is unclear from your message if you are using the Mac OS X side for
fldigi, etc to run the 7600.  If so I might suggest that you have a
conflict with the two Operating systems and the USBtoUART bridge.
I don't play the bootcamp game but I do know that a friend has the
Davic Weather station hooked up to his Mac so better behavior might
be achieved.   Asside:  Support for the Mac from Davis is non-existant
but the software does work.



>It took several hours last night, and much help from friend Chuck 
>AI4WU, for me to figure out why every time I power cycle my Icom 
>7600 that programs like fldigi, flrig, Aether and others were no 
>longer recognizing the USB path to the radio without manually 
>reselecting the connection path.  Long story short I found the 
>culprit to be my repositioned Davis Weather console, recently moved 
>from my XP PC to the Bootcamp Windows 8.1 side of my Mac, as it was 
>continuously plugged in and had "hijacked" the port ID:
>
>/dev/tty.SLAB_USBtoUART
>
>and that the USB path used to connect to the radio would then be 
>assigned the enumeration:
>
>/dev/tty.SLAB_USBtoUARTXX
>
>where XX was a incrementing number that increased by one digit with 
>each radio power cycle - problem is that the programs still thought 
>that XX minus one was the path to take.  The I/O is a Silicon 
>Laboratories USB to UART device for both the weather station and the 
>radio.
>
>Now, unplugging the WX station is a fix since simply plugging it in 
>to download WX data from the console infrequently w/o the radio 
>turned on isn't a big deal.  But does anyone know of a way to 
>reassign the IDs permanently somehow so they don't "conflict" with 
>each other causing the incrementing enumeration issue for one of the 
>devices?  I have found some stuff on how to do that with FTDI serial 
>devices - of course mucking around there is pretty scary as you 
>could end up bricking a device if you're not careful.  BTW, here's 
>the link to the FTDI utility I found:
>
>http://dangerousprototypes.com/2010/01/27/pirate-rename-get-a-nicely-named-serial-device/
>
>Anybody else had this problem USB/UART I/O and found a fix?
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>73 - Dino KL0S
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