Thanks for all the feedback. I did open the Terminal and entered the sudo dmesg command. This is what returned: PL-2303/X V1.5.0 start, Prolific
As I know nothing about Terminal stuff. This looks to me like it detected the driver, but I don’t see any node stuff going on there. What now? Thanks, -Ted > On Sep 6, 2019, at 5:59 AM, Chance Fulton <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm thinking it's simpler than Apple messing with the driver. Have you tried > using the commandline to check what is printed when you plug in the cable? > > unplug the cable, open terminal and type > > sudo dmesg > > plug the cable back in, and type the same again. > > It should tell you the cable was detected, the driver was loaded, and what > /dev node it's associated with. > > IF you don't get a node name, then you can start barking up the driver tree. > > > On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 10:23 PM Jim Unroe <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 9:58 PM Ted Smith <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi, > > You guys probably get this all the time, but now it’s my turn. > > I have been using CHIRP with my Baofeng radios for the past couple of years > > with no problem. > > I recently had to upgrade my Mac OS to 10.11. Now I can’t get CHIRP to talk > > to my radios. > > I assume it is because the drivers are wrong or something. I have tried > > downloading the Prolific drivers. No luck so far. > > There used to be a pl2303 option on the drop down menu when I was > > uploading/ downloading. It isn’t there anymore. > > I’m not sure what to do at this point. > > Please help, I’m begging. > > Thanks, > > -Ted > > Hi Ted, > > My son-in-law gave me a MacBook Air a couple of months ago. I'm not a > Mac user so I decided that my first project would be to see if I could > get CHIRP running on it. > > Most of my programming cables were furnished with the radios so > virtually every one of the freebies has a counterfeit USB-to-TTL chip > in it. So I knew up front that using device driver from the Prolific > website was out of the question. I also have a homebrew programming > cable that has a Silicon Labs chip and a few programming cables with > FTDI chips. > > So what I did was to purchase and install a 3rd party device driver > from Repleo. It works for programming cables with Prolific PL2303 > chips, WCH CH341 chips and Silicon Labs CP2102 chips. They want 7.90 > euros for it which at the time I bought it came to $9.11 USD. > > https://www.mac-usb-serial.com/ > > I used the native Apple driver for my programming cables with FTDI chips. > > Jim KC9HI > _______________________________________________ > chirp_users mailing list > [email protected] > http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users > This message was sent to Chance at [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send an email to > [email protected] > > > -- > Chance Fulton > [email protected] > 810.441.5795 > _______________________________________________ > chirp_users mailing list > [email protected] > http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users > This message was sent to Ted Smith at [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send an email to > [email protected] Ted Smith Pikes Peak Paragliding, LLC 2205 Charing Court Colorado Springs, CO 80919 [email protected] 719.761.1486 EIN: 81-4065089
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