On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Lee Bengston <lee.bengs...@gmail.com> wrote: > MAC OSX users have also reported > problems with the Prolific based devices.
yep. The prolific driver actually caused a kernel dump on my mac, once upon a time. haven't used 'em since, if I could help it. The prolific devices have no unique serial number, so they are not uniquely identifiable to the OS. At best the OS must rely on where the device is plugged in to the USB tree to identify it; at worst, it's enumeration order. I despise this horribly broken "feature" of many USB devices and drivers, as it not only assumes you will never use more than one device, it assumes that you will plug that device into the same place every time. Those are two extremely stupid assumptions by the hardware and software designers. As best I can tell, FTDI is the only cross-platform RS232/USB adapter that is _not_ guilty of these errors. -Jason kg4wsv _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir