Grant is entirely correct - there is no need to delve into the inner workings of the Mac to get a USB/serial port to work. Plug in the USB connector and the port will show as a connected device - by NAME - no COM port number.
Charles, K4ZRJ, Registered Apple Developer > On Jan 6, 2017, at 1:56 PM, GRANT YOUNGMAN <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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] ______________________________________________________________ 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]
