I can't speak to what the proper settings are for the Kenwood, but I can tell you I never could get any serial/USB to work other than the Keyspan one. Maybe if I had fought it harder, I could have gotten the prolific to work- but I did everything I read about drivers, various serial ports and versions of drivers, etc. and nothing worked. Get a Keyspan USB/Serial. It works with ease.
To answer your question about how to see the ports, check this site: http://schmeits.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/usb-to-serial-for-mac-os-x-snow-leopard/ As to why it is crashing, I seem to recall having that problem while trying to change interface settings while that port was active. If you close that interface (to DOWN status) and edit it, I believe it wasn't as prone to crashing. Best, Chase W4TI On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:57 PM, Jarett DeAngelis <[email protected] > wrote: > Hi gang, > > I'm trying to figure out how to get my Kenwood TM-D710A working with Xastir > on my Snow Leopard-powered Mac. > > I have a Prolific Technology serial-USB Kenwood cable that I know works at > least to program the radio with under Windows. I know the programming cable > doubles as a TNC connection cable. I am pretty sure that you put the TNC > into "PACKET12" mode to make it ready to transmit data via the port on the > back of the head unit. > > Then what? I tried configuring Xastir to use a "Serial KISS TNC" on > /dev/ttys0. When I start the device in Interface Control, Xastir freezes. > Not really sure where to proceed from here. > > Thanks in advance, folks. I would RTFM if I had one ;) > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir > _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
