I have a genuine FTDI cable on its way. We will see how that goes. I’ll keep you all posted. -Ted > On Sep 7, 2019, at 1:21 PM, Jim Unroe <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 10:21 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 > > As with with Prolific drivers for Windows, the Prolific company > intentionally crippled their device driver so it won't work when > paired with a counterfeit Prolific USB-to-TTL chip. Genuine Prolific > chips in programming cables are rare. Out of the 20+ programming > cables I have that are detected as having a Prolific chip, only 1 is > genuine. It cost $25 because the vendor specifically went out of his > way to source these programming cables with genuine Prolific chips. > > Like Windows users still can, Mac users can no longer use the old > generic drivers that are shown on the MacOS Tips page (which used to > be the workaround Lion, Mountain Lion and Mavericks) because they are > not signed. You either have to spend $9.11 and get the signed, > 3rd-party device driver (which provides functionality with programming > cables having PL2302 (Prolific), CH341 and CP2102 chips) or put the > $9.11 toward an FTDI chip based programming cable that allows you to > use the native Apple driver. > > Jim KC9HI > _______________________________________________ > 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]
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