All of the Elecraft USB/serial adapters I have are also FTDI and work flawlessly on my MacBook Pro.
Michael Blake K9JRI > On May 17, 2019, at 3:07 PM, Tox <[email protected]> wrote: > > This. > > I have spent enough time fightingg "prolific" cables that proved to have > fake chips that it is far cheaper to just buy the keyspan unit, install the > ftdi driver, and have it Just Work (modulo variability in Port naming). > > Chuck the prolifics, get a genuine ftdi (the keyspan unit is a great > choice). Save the grief. > > Scott > AD6YT > > On Fri, May 17, 2019, 11:12 AM AL7CR <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have been down this route on numerous Macs under many versions of OS X. >> The absolute "gold standard" is the Tripp-Lite Keyspan USA-19HS. They are >> expensive but they just work on OS X. I keep them in stock for projects. >> Available on Amazon. >> >> AL7CR >> >> On Fri, May 17, 2019, at 10:28 AM, Doug Person wrote: >>> I know there are a lot of guys that are very good at macs here. I'm >>> stuck. I'm trying to get a USB to SERIAL adapter to work on a mac. I've >>> tried 4. None work. I look at System Information but I honestly can't >>> tell if there's a serial port adapter there or not or if it even works. >>> I did install Prolific drivers. OS is 10.13.6. >>> >>> Thanks for any help. >>> >>> Doug -- KJ0F >>> >>> ______________________________________________________________ >>> Elecraft mailing list >>> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >>> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >>> Post: mailto:[email protected] >>> >>> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >>> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >>> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:[email protected] >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
