I use the keyspan us 19hs which gives me no problems at all. I use a
romeo rb25 with it and I cat and echo to it all day
On Jul 5, 2006, at 8:43 AM, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
Hi all.
I triedd my usbserial cable, which takes the prolific driver, on
linux on my laptop that has usb and had no issues. I could echo
repeatedly to the device and, since braille support is fully in
place in linux, could run brltty with no problems; I could even set
it up to start at boot. However, when I replugged the cable back
into the mac, I couldn't get any response by echoing even though
the /dev/cu.usbserial device was there.. I did a google search and
found a new version of the driver on the prolific site; I don't
know if anything else is new about it but it is a universal binary
now. The readme said it did remove old versions of the driver
before installing so I installed it. But still, I only get one
choing response and then tno response unless I reboot and/or
remove /dev/cu.usbserial and let it be recreated. If anybody has
any ideas about this problem I'dd appereciate hearing them as I
hate to have to go out and buy another cable if the same thing may
happen. The cable itself obviously isn't defective since it is
functioning fine in linux. I thought about manually removing the
driver but I can't find thee .kext file that is listed in the
readme and besides I think it might install in such a way that just
removing one file may not remove the driver. I'm sure when I first
installed I didn't have this problem but of course I've upgraded
macosx since then and I suppose that might have caused aa problem.
If I absolutely have to get another usbserial cable, does somebody
have a recommendation of one that is workig reliably and for which
one doesn't have to do a major search for the mac driver? I really
need to solve this problem because Dave Mielke is working on brltty
on my machine via ssh, trying to get serial support worked out.
Thanks for any help.
--
Cheryl
"Where your treasure is,
there will your heart be also".
