[Ham-Mac] MacOS 10.12 Sierra Public Beta and fldigi-3.23.12

[Dave Wright]

> When I try flrig standalone and go to the setup, the “SL_USBtoUART" device
> is not listed as one of the “Ser. Port” selection options and “NONE” is displayed.
> This failure to find the SL driver is probably the reason I cannot get fldigi/flrig
> rig control to work under macOS 10.12.  The SL's driver is recognized under
> OS X 10.11


Does the device appear in the /dev directory?  If not, then the driver
is not being loaded.


> The undated driver did not fix the fldigi/flrig problem; however, it does work with the
> Kenwood control program for the TS-590SG so I no longer suspect the driver.

Does the Kenwood program run as a native OS X program or under Windows in a VM?



Dave Wright
K3DCW

"Real radio bounces off the sky"


On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 9:44 AM, Richard Kriss <aa5vu at arrl.net> wrote:
> Jav K4JH
>
> Good to hear from you again. I assume you were talking about the Silicon Labs driver rather than the TI chipset used in the Kenwood TS-590S and TS-590S.  When I first discovered the problem (could not get fldigi or flrig rig control to work with macOS 10.12), the first thing I suspected was Silicon Labs VCO Driver.  I downloaded and installed a fresh version of the SiLabsUSBDriverDisk.dmg.  The release note for the CP210X v4 does not mention macOS 10.12 but it installed okay.
>
> ===
>         This release includes the Macintosh OSX driver for the Intel and
>         PowerPC Platforms versions 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 10.8,
>         10.9, 10.10 and 10.11.
> ===
>

>
.
>
> I do not know if this is a fldigi/flrig issue or if something is wrong in macOS 10.12 or the Silicon Lab VPC Driver.
>
> Rich K6LE does not have the problem but he is using a different setup with K3.  I tried both RigCAT and Hamlib in fldigi that work fine with OS X 10.11 but neither work with macOS 10.12.
>
> Dave, W1HKJ, cannot duplicate the problem because his test Mac Mini is a 2009 version that is not supported by macOS 10.12.
>
>
> 73 Dick AA5VU
>
>> On Jul 9, 2016, at 7:46 PM, Javier Henderson <javier at kjsl.org> wrote:
>>
>> This problem is with the SI drivers for their chipset. I also have problems downloading data from my dive computer, which uses the SI chipset.
>>
>> Using fldigi with an FTDI USB serial dongle works fine with macOS 10.12.
>>
>> 73,
>> -jav k4jh
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