Re: [chirp_users] Icom ID-880H Macintosh Interconnectivity
- Can you use the Icom OPC-1529R cable with Chirp and a USB-serial adapter?
Yep, should be able to.
Thanks for the response Dan.
OK I've tried both the OPC-1529R with the Belkin adaptor and the OPC478UC - the USB cable with absolutely no luck. Both these cables are recommended by ICOM for the ID-880H, but ICOM only supply drivers for Windows.
I downloaded the Prolific driver which they say works with Mac OS 10.8 ...and I can't get it to load. I then downloaded the Netherlands driver (osx-pl2303.kext) and I've got it loaded and a serial port available.
However when I choose "Download from Radio" Chirp simply says "Cloning" very briefly and then "An error has occurred. Unexpected response from radio"
Important to note that the serial port does not show up in Network Prefs but when I issue kextstat I get this back: 131 0 0xffffff7f81eb6000 0xb000 0xb000 nl.bjaelectronics.driver.PL2303 (1.0.0d1) <122 33 5 4 3>
So it's loaded.
I'd really appreciate it if there is anyone out there using Mac OS 10.8.1 and ID-880H and Chirp if they could tell me just exactly what they do to get it to work (it's not _that_ unusual a combination ;)). I really don't want to have to go the whole memory hogging VMWare route.
Kind regards Mike VK3ZMH
- If not which cable do I use - is it the Icom OPC-478UC and if so does this work without any drivers on the Mac OS? I'm not after cheap eBay cables - just reliable connectivity.
The OPC-478 is the older cable, which has a TTL converter in it. Their newer radios have started to support cloning via the regular RS-232 port that they now have. I can't say I've tried it with the 880, but as consistent as the Icoms are, I'd expect no issues. I have an 880 here, I guess I should check it :)
- If I can use the OPC-1529R then does anyone have a USB-serial adapter which they are using on Mac OS 10.8.x with that cable which works well? If so which one?
From my experience, the KeySpan is the best one for your platform. It's
big (although I wouldn't call it clunky), but it has a removable cable and does a lot of neat stuff that the others won't.
What chip/driver is in your Belkin? They're usually prolific, which is the most common, but also the most commonly problematic on MacOS, in my experience. I think Tom would argue for FTDI-based gear, but I'll let him speak up.
Just with respect to a current discussion on the list about Mac where it was suggested it is a "boutique platform" - I'm not sure that you can say that about the biggest selling laptop platform in the US for the last quarter ;)
Heh, I hadn't heard that, and I'm certainly skeptical of such a claim. However, regardless of growth, there's a lot of ground to make up. Further, due to Windows' architecture, some of the driver cores have been around longer than OSX has been a commercial product.
Yikes, I sound like a Windows advocate. Ya'll know I don't own a single machine with Windows on it, right?? :)
-- Dan Smith www.danplanet.com KK7DS
that nl driver on osx 10.7.4 using a wouxun usb cable works about once out of 20-40 times for me. next week i'm trying some other drivers. like you, i see the driver loaded and available and i can 'connect' to it via zterm or scrt.
/guy
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 3:25 AM, Mike Hannibal pelorus32@gmail.com wrote:
- Can you use the Icom OPC-1529R cable with Chirp and a USB-serial adapter?
Yep, should be able to.
Thanks for the response Dan.
OK I've tried both the OPC-1529R with the Belkin adaptor and the OPC478UC
- the USB cable with absolutely no luck. Both these cables are recommended
by ICOM for the ID-880H, but ICOM only supply drivers for Windows.
I downloaded the Prolific driver which they say works with Mac OS 10.8 ...and I can't get it to load. I then downloaded the Netherlands driver (osx-pl2303.kext) and I've got it loaded and a serial port available.
However when I choose "Download from Radio" Chirp simply says "Cloning" very briefly and then "An error has occurred. Unexpected response from radio"
Important to note that the serial port does not show up in Network Prefs but when I issue kextstat I get this back: 131 0 0xffffff7f81eb6000 0xb000 0xb000 nl.bjaelectronics.driver.PL2303 (1.0.0d1) <122 33 5 4 3>
So it's loaded.
I'd really appreciate it if there is anyone out there using Mac OS 10.8.1 and ID-880H and Chirp if they could tell me just exactly what they do to get it to work (it's not _that_ unusual a combination ;)). I really don't want to have to go the whole memory hogging VMWare route.
Kind regards Mike VK3ZMH
- If not which cable do I use - is it the Icom OPC-478UC and if so does this work without any drivers on the Mac OS? I'm not after cheap eBay cables - just reliable connectivity.
The OPC-478 is the older cable, which has a TTL converter in it. Their newer radios have started to support cloning via the regular RS-232 port that they now have. I can't say I've tried it with the 880, but as consistent as the Icoms are, I'd expect no issues. I have an 880 here, I guess I should check it :)
- If I can use the OPC-1529R then does anyone have a USB-serial adapter which they are using on Mac OS 10.8.x with that cable which works well? If so which one?
From my experience, the KeySpan is the best one for your platform. It's
big (although I wouldn't call it clunky), but it has a removable cable and does a lot of neat stuff that the others won't.
What chip/driver is in your Belkin? They're usually prolific, which is the most common, but also the most commonly problematic on MacOS, in my experience. I think Tom would argue for FTDI-based gear, but I'll let him speak up.
Just with respect to a current discussion on the list about Mac where it was suggested it is a "boutique platform" - I'm not sure that you can say that about the biggest selling laptop platform in the US for the last quarter ;)
Heh, I hadn't heard that, and I'm certainly skeptical of such a claim. However, regardless of growth, there's a lot of ground to make up. Further, due to Windows' architecture, some of the driver cores have been around longer than OSX has been a commercial product.
Yikes, I sound like a Windows advocate. Ya'll know I don't own a single machine with Windows on it, right?? :)
-- Dan Smith www.danplanet.com KK7DS
chirp_users mailing list chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users
Just further to my last email.
I plugged the IC-7200 in and tried Download from Radio and immediately got a download. I have another driver for that radio installed however, from this information:
Where can I get a Mac driver for my ICOM IC-7200, IC-7600, IC-9100, Kenwood TS-590S, Elecraft KX3 or Ten-Tec Eagle USB direct connect ?
The USB/UART Bridge chip inside the Icom and Kenwood radios is a Silicon Labs USB to UART Bridge Controller and the Mac drivers are available here.
On this page: http://www.dogparksoftware.com/mldxfc_faq.html#connection
That driver doesn't show up in Network Prefs either but it works ;)
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So spurred on I found this page: http://www.planet-rcs.de/article/mac_serial_port/
The key text is:
After the installation has finished, you do not need to immediately reboot. Before rebooting your Mac you should plug in your USB-to-Serial Adaptor and open the Apple System Profiler (Apple-Menu > About this Mac > More Information). In the USB section note the Product-ID and Vendor-ID of your USB-to-Serial Adaptor.
Now open a terminal (Applications > Utilities > Terminal), go to/System/Library/Extensions/ProlificUsbSerial.kext/Contents and open the file Info.plist(plist = Property List) in your favourite editor (e.g. vi). Now scroll down to the section starting with <key>067B_2303</key> (it may differ a bit, important is the part "2303"). In this section locate the entries idProduct and idVendor and fill in the values gathered from the System Profiler a few minutes earlier. It should then look something like this: <key>067B_2303</key> <dict> ... <key>idProduct</key> <integer>8963</integer> <key>idVendor</key> <integer>1659</integer> </dict>
Having done that in vi and saved the file I then loaded the kext using kextload and lo and behold I had a new serial port available.
I went into Chirp and it was there and I could download from the ID-880H!!
I thought I'd post this for completeness in case anybody else had this problem.
Kind regards Mike VK3ZMH
On 15/09/2012, at 6:25 PM, Mike Hannibal pelorus32@gmail.com wrote:
- Can you use the Icom OPC-1529R cable with Chirp and a USB-serial adapter?
Yep, should be able to.
Thanks for the response Dan.
OK I've tried both the OPC-1529R with the Belkin adaptor and the OPC478UC - the USB cable with absolutely no luck. Both these cables are recommended by ICOM for the ID-880H, but ICOM only supply drivers for Windows.
I downloaded the Prolific driver which they say works with Mac OS 10.8 ...and I can't get it to load. I then downloaded the Netherlands driver (osx-pl2303.kext) and I've got it loaded and a serial port available.
However when I choose "Download from Radio" Chirp simply says "Cloning" very briefly and then "An error has occurred. Unexpected response from radio"
Important to note that the serial port does not show up in Network Prefs but when I issue kextstat I get this back: 131 0 0xffffff7f81eb6000 0xb000 0xb000 nl.bjaelectronics.driver.PL2303 (1.0.0d1) <122 33 5 4 3>
So it's loaded.
I'd really appreciate it if there is anyone out there using Mac OS 10.8.1 and ID-880H and Chirp if they could tell me just exactly what they do to get it to work (it's not _that_ unusual a combination ;)). I really don't want to have to go the whole memory hogging VMWare route.
Kind regards Mike VK3ZMH
- If not which cable do I use - is it the Icom OPC-478UC and if so does this work without any drivers on the Mac OS? I'm not after cheap eBay cables - just reliable connectivity.
The OPC-478 is the older cable, which has a TTL converter in it. Their newer radios have started to support cloning via the regular RS-232 port that they now have. I can't say I've tried it with the 880, but as consistent as the Icoms are, I'd expect no issues. I have an 880 here, I guess I should check it :)
- If I can use the OPC-1529R then does anyone have a USB-serial adapter which they are using on Mac OS 10.8.x with that cable which works well? If so which one?
From my experience, the KeySpan is the best one for your platform. It's
big (although I wouldn't call it clunky), but it has a removable cable and does a lot of neat stuff that the others won't.
What chip/driver is in your Belkin? They're usually prolific, which is the most common, but also the most commonly problematic on MacOS, in my experience. I think Tom would argue for FTDI-based gear, but I'll let him speak up.
Just with respect to a current discussion on the list about Mac where it was suggested it is a "boutique platform" - I'm not sure that you can say that about the biggest selling laptop platform in the US for the last quarter ;)
Heh, I hadn't heard that, and I'm certainly skeptical of such a claim. However, regardless of growth, there's a lot of ground to make up. Further, due to Windows' architecture, some of the driver cores have been around longer than OSX has been a commercial product.
Yikes, I sound like a Windows advocate. Ya'll know I don't own a single machine with Windows on it, right?? :)
-- Dan Smith www.danplanet.com KK7DS
So, the driver works, but the installer does an incomplete job?
Either way, most awesome!
--Shawn --KF7WXG
On 9/15/2012 2:30 AM, Mike Hannibal wrote:
Just further to my last email.
I plugged the IC-7200 in and tried Download from Radio and immediately got a download. I have another driver for that radio installed however, from this information:
Where can I get a Mac driver for my ICOM IC-7200, IC-7600, IC-9100, Kenwood TS-590S, Elecraft KX3 or Ten-Tec Eagle USB direct connect ?The USB/UART Bridge chip inside the Icom and Kenwood radios is a *Silicon Labs USB to UART Bridge Controller* and the Mac drivers are available here http://www.silabs.com/products/mcu/pages/usbtouartbridgevcpdrivers.aspx.
On this page: http://www.dogparksoftware.com/mldxfc_faq.html#connection
That driver doesn't show up in Network Prefs either but it works ;)
###
So spurred on I found this page: http://www.planet-rcs.de/article/mac_serial_port/
The key text is:
After the installation has finished, you do not need to immediately reboot. Before rebooting your Mac you should plug in your USB-to-Serial Adaptor and open the Apple System Profiler (Apple-Menu > About this Mac > More Information). In the USB section note the Product-ID and Vendor-ID of your USB-to-Serial Adaptor.
http://images.planet-rcs.de/article/m/mac_serial_port/system_profiler_1.jpg
Now open a terminal (Applications > Utilities > Terminal), go to//System/Library/Extensions/ProlificUsbSerial.kext/Contents/ and open the file /Info.plist/(plist = Property List) in your favourite editor (e.g. vi). Now scroll down to the section starting with /<key>067B_2303</key>/ (it may differ a bit, important is the part "2303"). In this section locate the entries /idProduct/ and /idVendor/ and fill in the values gathered from the System Profiler a few minutes earlier. It should then look something like this: <key>067B_2303</key> <dict> ... <key>idProduct</key> <integer>8963</integer> <key>idVendor</key> <integer>1659</integer> </dict>
Having done that in vi and saved the file I then loaded the kext using kextload and lo and behold I had a new serial port available.
I went into Chirp and it was there and I could download from the ID-880H!!
I thought I'd post this for completeness in case anybody else had this problem.
Kind regards Mike VK3ZMH
On 15/09/2012, at 6:25 PM, Mike Hannibal <pelorus32@gmail.com mailto:pelorus32@gmail.com> wrote:
- Can you use the Icom OPC-1529R cable with Chirp and a USB-serial
adapter?
Yep, should be able to.
Thanks for the response Dan.
OK I've tried both the OPC-1529R with the Belkin adaptor and the OPC478UC - the USB cable with absolutely no luck. Both these cables are recommended by ICOM for the ID-880H, but ICOM only supply drivers for Windows.
I downloaded the Prolific driver which they say works with Mac OS 10.8 ...and I can't get it to load. I then downloaded the Netherlands driver (osx-pl2303.kext) and I've got it loaded and a serial port available.
However when I choose "Download from Radio" Chirp simply says "Cloning" very briefly and then "An error has occurred. Unexpected response from radio"
Important to note that the serial port does not show up in Network Prefs but when I issue kextstat I get this back: 131 0 0xffffff7f81eb6000 0xb000 0xb000 nl.bjaelectronics.driver.PL2303 (1.0.0d1) <122 33 5 4 3>
So it's loaded.
I'd really appreciate it if there is anyone out there using Mac OS 10.8.1 and ID-880H and Chirp if they could tell me just exactly what they do to get it to work (it's not _that_ unusual a combination ;)). I really don't want to have to go the whole memory hogging VMWare route.
Kind regards Mike VK3ZMH
- If not which cable do I use - is it the Icom OPC-478UC and if so
does this work without any drivers on the Mac OS? I'm not after cheap eBay cables - just reliable connectivity.
The OPC-478 is the older cable, which has a TTL converter in it. Their newer radios have started to support cloning via the regular RS-232 port that they now have. I can't say I've tried it with the 880, but as consistent as the Icoms are, I'd expect no issues. I have an 880 here, I guess I should check it :)
- If I can use the OPC-1529R then does anyone have a USB-serial
adapter which they are using on Mac OS 10.8.x with that cable which works well? If so which one?
From my experience, the KeySpan is the best one for your platform. It's
big (although I wouldn't call it clunky), but it has a removable cable and does a lot of neat stuff that the others won't.
What chip/driver is in your Belkin? They're usually prolific, which is the most common, but also the most commonly problematic on MacOS, in my experience. I think Tom would argue for FTDI-based gear, but I'll let him speak up.
Just with respect to a current discussion on the list about Mac where it was suggested it is a "boutique platform" - I'm not sure that you can say that about the biggest selling laptop platform in the US for the last quarter ;)
Heh, I hadn't heard that, and I'm certainly skeptical of such a claim. However, regardless of growth, there's a lot of ground to make up. Further, due to Windows' architecture, some of the driver cores have been around longer than OSX has been a commercial product.
Yikes, I sound like a Windows advocate. Ya'll know I don't own a single machine with Windows on it, right?? :)
-- Dan Smith www.danplanet.com http://www.danplanet.com/ KK7DS
chirp_users mailing list chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com http://intrepid.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/chirp_users
Having done that in vi and saved the file I then loaded the kext using kextload and lo and behold I had a new serial port available.
That tells the driver to claim a different device ID than it was expecting. I didn't realize you were using the USB versions of your cables, but that makes sense. Icom uses legitimate chips in their cables, but changes the vendor/product ID so that it doesn't "look" like any other prolific device. Your fix makes perfect sense, and I'm glad to hear it resolved things for you!
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