perhaps you missed the part where i said chirp works flawlessly using windows7 on vmware running on the _same_ mac using _exactly the same_ hardware and usb port. and my wouxun cable came from an official wouxun dealer.
now i won't deny that perhaps i've gotten ahold of the wrong driver or haven't gotten it installed correctly on the mac. i went to at least a dozen, maybe two dozen, websites and tried everything i could find. if there was an authoritative source that had actual links to actual files that actually worked that might help. any links you can find point to pages where you have to mount new searches and choose between multiple options to the point where you end up completely confused. don't get me wrong--i am a grizzled veteran of such unix/linux scavenger hunts for drivers and software--it's a major factor in keeping linux off desktops, imo.
if you are actually able to help instead of trying to suppress constructive critcism, here is the output of my kextstat command:
161 0 0xffffff7f809bd000 0xb000 0xb000 nl.bjaelectronics.driver.PL2303 (1.0.0d1) <115 31 5 4 3>
is that the right driver?
/guy (73 de kg5vt)
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Tom Hayward esarfl@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Guy Teague accts@gtweb.org wrote:
there are evidently major problems on the mac. i have basically the same setup and with both the uv5r and the uv6d and two different cables i can only get the mac to recognize the radio perhaps once out of two dozen attempts--download or upload.
using windows7 64-bit via vmware on the same mac same usb port same cable succeeds every single time, so obviously there is no fault with the radio(s) or cable(s) or usb port conflict.
also, i noticed the mac version of chirp does not have all the functions of the windows version and requires yet more python modules to support radio reference db. i consider myself lucky to have the windows workaround because i think if you had a mac only and had to depend on the chirp port you would be very frustrated.
/guy (73 de kg5vt)
Please quit spewing FUD. I use Chirp on my Mac and prefer it to Windows. All Chirp features are available on all operating systems. That's the whole point of Chirp. I wrote the Radio Reference support on my Mac and it works just fine.
The issue with your cable is undoubtedly with the OS X drivers. Avoid the counterfeit PL2303 cables; everything else works great.
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