As a very long time Mac user, I have NEVER had to do any such thing for a Prolific or FTDI port for many different applications.
First time for everything, I suppose, but unlikely. Grant NQ5T K3 #2091, KX3 #8342 > On Jan 6, 2017, at 1:40 PM, Al Lorona <[email protected]> wrote: > > Wow, things have changed. In the early years of the Macintosh its claim to > fame was true plug-and-play, where the user never had to go into the > operating system to execute commands, never had to see a "DOS prompt". Since > following this thread I see that that is no longer the case. That's too bad. > > Al W6LX > > > >> You may need to add your regular login username, to a group >> sudo adduser #### dialout >> Make yourself root to use that, as you need to on FreeBSD >> In fact, run dmesg before, and after inserting the adapter, >> dmesg | tail > ______________________________________________________________ > ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
