On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Herb Peyerl<hpeyerl%beer.org@localhost> wrote:
On my mac I use an FTDI based one... I have a few of them and they work out of
the box and have since at least 10.4.x ...
FTDIUSBSerialDriver: 0 4036001 start - ok
chimay ~ # uname -a
Darwin chimay.local 10.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.5.0: Fri Nov 5 23:20:39
PDT 2010; root:xnu-1504.9.17~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
chimay ~ # ls -al /dev/tty.usbserial-00004626
crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 18, 8 Jan 14 07:48 /dev/tty.usbserial-00004626
USB<-> Serial:
Product ID: 0x6001
Vendor ID: 0x0403 (Future Technology Devices International Limited)
Version: 4.00
Speed: Up to 12 Mb/sec
Manufacturer: FTDI
Location ID: 0x26460000
Current Available (mA): 500
Current Required (mA): 90
I've got a uftdi based one, but it doesn't work on my Mac. I plug it
in and the system profiler shows that it's an unknown device. I didn't
follow up on it because I thought it just wasn't supported. I'll have
to plug it in again when I get home and compare it to what you have
here. I'm on a 10.6.6 machine, maybe something changed. You said you
didn't have to install a driver for that? I searched around and found
various 3rd party USB to serial drivers for Mac...