I have 2 of the blue-ended cables, and both work just fine. The cable itself has a clear jacket, full braid underneath. They are a few years old however.
73, Mike NF4L On 1/28/2012 1:00 AM, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jan 2012, Rem . wrote: > >> I searched the Nabble archives for an answer to this and couldn't find one. >> After a long time since an update I connected the USB to serial cable today >> and launched the K3 Utility. I double checked and I have the latest >> version of that. The K3 Utility didn't recognize the K3. I tried numerous >> times and the only thing that changed since the last update is that I've >> gone from OS Snow Leopard to the new version OS Lion 10.7. Has anyone >> else had any problems? >> >> I couldn't see what version of the Prolific driver I was running so I >> downloaded the one on the Elecraft website. The instructions with the >> downloaded driver say to go into Terminal and then the library to delete >> the old version. In Terminal I wasn't able to get it to find that file... >> Says I need to be in Root. Following info found online, that didn't >> help. Any suggestions? > You do know that there are counterfeit Prolific chips and the latest > drivers from Prolific disable them. I've had no end of trouble with > those lately and I finally bought TrippLite/Keyspan USB-to-serial > cables. > > You don't say where you got the cable you're talking about, but if they > have translucent blue plastic, there's a good chance it's a counterfeit > chip according to what I've seen on the intarwebs. > ______________________________________________________________ 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
