On Sun, Jan 27, 2019 at 2:28 PM Stephen Pereira < [email protected]> wrote:
> Oh, crap! The serial device path… > > Starting with Mac OS Mohave (10.14.x) Apple has now built in the driver > for my Prolific USB-to-serial device. That means it no longer shows up in > /DEV as a plug & play device, Mac OS just takes care of it. All this to > say that I don’t know what the path to my serial device is any more. > > It's unix.... it must have a device name path. Sometimes your driver+device can be configured to always show up as a specific name. I do that on my Linux machines, but it uses the udev filesystem. Whenever a usb devices is plugged in, I can run a script that renames the device, and I can trigger off specific models/serial numbers. I don't know what you do on OSX, but there is usually a way. > I also have Parallels, and I can run my Windows XP virtual machine. Would > that work? In Windows XP, my USB-to-serial device shows up as COM4. > > If you're using Windows and don't have Rex you should use Kurt's MComm program. It will help you inject TEENY and get started quickly. He shares it in his personal libraries on Club 100. > What do I need to run your Laddie on Windows XP? > > .NET 3.5 or higher. The original laddiecon supports .NET 2.0 I think, you could use it if necessary. I don't know what XP came with. -- John.
