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

[Richard Kriss]

Bob,

Thanks!  At least the problem was not caused by cockpit error on my part.  I am not sure how or who to report the issue?  

Dick AA5VU

> On Jul 10, 2016, at 9:50 AM, Bob Nielsen <n7xy at n7xy.net> wrote:
> 
> I installed 10.12 in a new partition on my Mac Mini.  I installed the latest (May 2016) driver from Silicon Labs and this completed successfully.  Not only does flrig not show the Silabs port, it doesn't show up in the System Report under "About this Mac".  I'm pretty sure that either a new driver is required or there is a flaw in the beta 10.12 which prevents it from seeing the driver/port.
> 
> 73,
> Bob, N7XY
> 
> On 7/10/16 6:44 AM, Richard Kriss 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.
>> ===
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 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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