Hi, You guys probably get this all the time, but now it’s my turn. I have been using CHIRP with my Baofeng radios for the past couple of years with no problem. I recently had to upgrade my Mac OS to 10.11. Now I can’t get CHIRP to talk to my radios. I assume it is because the drivers are wrong or something. I have tried downloading the Prolific drivers. No luck so far. There used to be a pl2303 option on the drop down menu when I was uploading/ downloading. It isn’t there anymore. I’m not sure what to do at this point. Please help, I’m begging. Thanks, -Ted
Ted Smith Pikes Peak Paragliding, LLC 2205 Charing Court Colorado Springs, CO 80919 info@PikesPeakParaGliding.com 719.761.1486 EIN: 81-4065089
On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 9:58 PM Ted Smith info@pikespeakparagliding.com wrote:
Hi, You guys probably get this all the time, but now it’s my turn. I have been using CHIRP with my Baofeng radios for the past couple of years with no problem. I recently had to upgrade my Mac OS to 10.11. Now I can’t get CHIRP to talk to my radios. I assume it is because the drivers are wrong or something. I have tried downloading the Prolific drivers. No luck so far. There used to be a pl2303 option on the drop down menu when I was uploading/ downloading. It isn’t there anymore. I’m not sure what to do at this point. Please help, I’m begging. Thanks, -Ted
Hi Ted,
My son-in-law gave me a MacBook Air a couple of months ago. I'm not a Mac user so I decided that my first project would be to see if I could get CHIRP running on it.
Most of my programming cables were furnished with the radios so virtually every one of the freebies has a counterfeit USB-to-TTL chip in it. So I knew up front that using device driver from the Prolific website was out of the question. I also have a homebrew programming cable that has a Silicon Labs chip and a few programming cables with FTDI chips.
So what I did was to purchase and install a 3rd party device driver from Repleo. It works for programming cables with Prolific PL2303 chips, WCH CH341 chips and Silicon Labs CP2102 chips. They want 7.90 euros for it which at the time I bought it came to $9.11 USD.
https://www.mac-usb-serial.com/
I used the native Apple driver for my programming cables with FTDI chips.
Jim KC9HI
I'm thinking it's simpler than Apple messing with the driver. Have you tried using the commandline to check what is printed when you plug in the cable?
unplug the cable, open terminal and type
sudo dmesg
plug the cable back in, and type the same again.
It should tell you the cable was detected, the driver was loaded, and what /dev node it's associated with.
IF you don't get a node name, then you can start barking up the driver tree.
On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 10:23 PM Jim Unroe rock.unroe@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 9:58 PM Ted Smith info@pikespeakparagliding.com wrote:
Hi, You guys probably get this all the time, but now it’s my turn. I have been using CHIRP with my Baofeng radios for the past couple of
years with no problem.
I recently had to upgrade my Mac OS to 10.11. Now I can’t get CHIRP to
talk to my radios.
I assume it is because the drivers are wrong or something. I have tried
downloading the Prolific drivers. No luck so far.
There used to be a pl2303 option on the drop down menu when I was
uploading/ downloading. It isn’t there anymore.
I’m not sure what to do at this point. Please help, I’m begging. Thanks, -Ted
Hi Ted,
My son-in-law gave me a MacBook Air a couple of months ago. I'm not a Mac user so I decided that my first project would be to see if I could get CHIRP running on it.
Most of my programming cables were furnished with the radios so virtually every one of the freebies has a counterfeit USB-to-TTL chip in it. So I knew up front that using device driver from the Prolific website was out of the question. I also have a homebrew programming cable that has a Silicon Labs chip and a few programming cables with FTDI chips.
So what I did was to purchase and install a 3rd party device driver from Repleo. It works for programming cables with Prolific PL2303 chips, WCH CH341 chips and Silicon Labs CP2102 chips. They want 7.90 euros for it which at the time I bought it came to $9.11 USD.
https://www.mac-usb-serial.com/
I used the native Apple driver for my programming cables with FTDI chips.
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Thanks for all the feedback. I did open the Terminal and entered the sudo dmesg command. This is what returned: PL-2303/X V1.5.0 start, Prolific
As I know nothing about Terminal stuff. This looks to me like it detected the driver, but I don’t see any node stuff going on there. What now? Thanks, -Ted
On Sep 6, 2019, at 5:59 AM, Chance Fulton chance.fulton@gmail.com wrote:
I'm thinking it's simpler than Apple messing with the driver. Have you tried using the commandline to check what is printed when you plug in the cable?
unplug the cable, open terminal and type
sudo dmesg
plug the cable back in, and type the same again.
It should tell you the cable was detected, the driver was loaded, and what /dev node it's associated with.
IF you don't get a node name, then you can start barking up the driver tree.
On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 10:23 PM Jim Unroe rock.unroe@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 9:58 PM Ted Smith info@pikespeakparagliding.com wrote:
Hi, You guys probably get this all the time, but now it’s my turn. I have been using CHIRP with my Baofeng radios for the past couple of years with no problem. I recently had to upgrade my Mac OS to 10.11. Now I can’t get CHIRP to talk to my radios. I assume it is because the drivers are wrong or something. I have tried downloading the Prolific drivers. No luck so far. There used to be a pl2303 option on the drop down menu when I was uploading/ downloading. It isn’t there anymore. I’m not sure what to do at this point. Please help, I’m begging. Thanks, -Ted
Hi Ted,
My son-in-law gave me a MacBook Air a couple of months ago. I'm not a Mac user so I decided that my first project would be to see if I could get CHIRP running on it.
Most of my programming cables were furnished with the radios so virtually every one of the freebies has a counterfeit USB-to-TTL chip in it. So I knew up front that using device driver from the Prolific website was out of the question. I also have a homebrew programming cable that has a Silicon Labs chip and a few programming cables with FTDI chips.
So what I did was to purchase and install a 3rd party device driver from Repleo. It works for programming cables with Prolific PL2303 chips, WCH CH341 chips and Silicon Labs CP2102 chips. They want 7.90 euros for it which at the time I bought it came to $9.11 USD.
https://www.mac-usb-serial.com/
I used the native Apple driver for my programming cables with FTDI chips.
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I might have a Mac around here somewhere, I can try to boot it and see what it is supposed to say.
On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 9:02 AM Ted Smith info@pikespeakparagliding.com wrote:
Thanks for all the feedback. I did open the Terminal and entered the sudo dmesg command. This is what returned: PL-2303/X V1.5.0 start, Prolific
As I know nothing about Terminal stuff. This looks to me like it detected the driver, but I don’t see any node stuff going on there. What now? Thanks, -Ted
On Sep 6, 2019, at 5:59 AM, Chance Fulton chance.fulton@gmail.com wrote:
I'm thinking it's simpler than Apple messing with the driver. Have you tried using the commandline to check what is printed when you plug in the cable?
unplug the cable, open terminal and type
sudo dmesg
plug the cable back in, and type the same again.
It should tell you the cable was detected, the driver was loaded, and what /dev node it's associated with.
IF you don't get a node name, then you can start barking up the driver tree.
On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 10:23 PM Jim Unroe rock.unroe@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 9:58 PM Ted Smith info@pikespeakparagliding.com wrote:
Hi, You guys probably get this all the time, but now it’s my turn. I have been using CHIRP with my Baofeng radios for the past couple of
years with no problem.
I recently had to upgrade my Mac OS to 10.11. Now I can’t get CHIRP to
talk to my radios.
I assume it is because the drivers are wrong or something. I have tried
downloading the Prolific drivers. No luck so far.
There used to be a pl2303 option on the drop down menu when I was
uploading/ downloading. It isn’t there anymore.
I’m not sure what to do at this point. Please help, I’m begging. Thanks, -Ted
Hi Ted,
My son-in-law gave me a MacBook Air a couple of months ago. I'm not a Mac user so I decided that my first project would be to see if I could get CHIRP running on it.
Most of my programming cables were furnished with the radios so virtually every one of the freebies has a counterfeit USB-to-TTL chip in it. So I knew up front that using device driver from the Prolific website was out of the question. I also have a homebrew programming cable that has a Silicon Labs chip and a few programming cables with FTDI chips.
So what I did was to purchase and install a 3rd party device driver from Repleo. It works for programming cables with Prolific PL2303 chips, WCH CH341 chips and Silicon Labs CP2102 chips. They want 7.90 euros for it which at the time I bought it came to $9.11 USD.
https://www.mac-usb-serial.com/
I used the native Apple driver for my programming cables with FTDI chips.
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Mine doesn’t work anymore either, I’ve read that this is an OS X thing. I have high Sierra on a Mac Pro 5,1. Nothing happens at all when I plug the device in. I’ve read that something in the extensions section of the system preferences needs to be configured to allow third party extensions.
On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 9:35 AM Chance Fulton chance.fulton@gmail.com wrote:
I might have a Mac around here somewhere, I can try to boot it and see what it is supposed to say.
On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 9:02 AM Ted Smith info@pikespeakparagliding.com wrote:
Thanks for all the feedback. I did open the Terminal and entered the sudo dmesg command. This is what returned: PL-2303/X V1.5.0 start, Prolific
As I know nothing about Terminal stuff. This looks to me like it detected the driver, but I don’t see any node stuff going on there. What now? Thanks, -Ted
On Sep 6, 2019, at 5:59 AM, Chance Fulton chance.fulton@gmail.com wrote:
I'm thinking it's simpler than Apple messing with the driver. Have you tried using the commandline to check what is printed when you plug in the cable?
unplug the cable, open terminal and type
sudo dmesg
plug the cable back in, and type the same again.
It should tell you the cable was detected, the driver was loaded, and what /dev node it's associated with.
IF you don't get a node name, then you can start barking up the driver tree.
On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 10:23 PM Jim Unroe rock.unroe@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 9:58 PM Ted Smith info@pikespeakparagliding.com wrote:
Hi, You guys probably get this all the time, but now it’s my turn. I have been using CHIRP with my Baofeng radios for the past couple of
years with no problem.
I recently had to upgrade my Mac OS to 10.11. Now I can’t get CHIRP to
talk to my radios.
I assume it is because the drivers are wrong or something. I have tried
downloading the Prolific drivers. No luck so far.
There used to be a pl2303 option on the drop down menu when I was
uploading/ downloading. It isn’t there anymore.
I’m not sure what to do at this point. Please help, I’m begging. Thanks, -Ted
Hi Ted,
My son-in-law gave me a MacBook Air a couple of months ago. I'm not a Mac user so I decided that my first project would be to see if I could get CHIRP running on it.
Most of my programming cables were furnished with the radios so virtually every one of the freebies has a counterfeit USB-to-TTL chip in it. So I knew up front that using device driver from the Prolific website was out of the question. I also have a homebrew programming cable that has a Silicon Labs chip and a few programming cables with FTDI chips.
So what I did was to purchase and install a 3rd party device driver from Repleo. It works for programming cables with Prolific PL2303 chips, WCH CH341 chips and Silicon Labs CP2102 chips. They want 7.90 euros for it which at the time I bought it came to $9.11 USD.
https://www.mac-usb-serial.com/
I used the native Apple driver for my programming cables with FTDI chips.
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Prolific's website suggests you may need an updated version of the driver, if you are running 10.11 then you need v1.6.2, Ted's dmesg suggests his may be v1.5.0 which was good for OSX up to 10.8 http://www.prolific.com.tw/us/showproduct.aspx?p_id=229&pcid=41
As I've not run a Mac since 10.6 I can't comment if the OSX driver has any conterfeit chip protection like the later Windows versions do, but I think Jim may have already answered that one.
Nick.
----- Original message ----- From: Chance Fulton chance.fulton@gmail.com To: Discussion of CHIRP chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com Subject: Re: [chirp_users] HELP! Date: Saturday, 7 September 2019 3:05 PM
Mine doesn’t work anymore either, I’ve read that this is an OS X thing. I have high Sierra on a Mac Pro 5,1. Nothing happens at all when I plug the device in. I’ve read that something in the extensions section of the system preferences needs to be configured to allow third party extensions.
On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 9:35 AM Chance Fulton chance.fulton@gmail.com wrote:
I might have a Mac around here somewhere, I can try to boot it and see what it is supposed to say.
On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 9:02 AM Ted Smith info@pikespeakparagliding.com wrote:
Thanks for all the feedback. I did open the Terminal and entered the sudo dmesg command. This is what returned: PL-2303/X V1.5.0 start, Prolific
As I know nothing about Terminal stuff. This looks to me like it detected the driver, but I don’t see any node stuff going on there. What now? Thanks, -Ted
On Sep 6, 2019, at 5:59 AM, Chance Fulton chance.fulton@gmail.com wrote:
I'm thinking it's simpler than Apple messing with the driver. Have you tried using the commandline to check what is printed when you plug in the cable?
unplug the cable, open terminal and type
sudo dmesg
plug the cable back in, and type the same again.
It should tell you the cable was detected, the driver was loaded, and what /dev node it's associated with.
IF you don't get a node name, then you can start barking up the driver tree.
On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 10:23 PM Jim Unroe rock.unroe@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 9:58 PM Ted Smith info@pikespeakparagliding.com wrote:
Hi, You guys probably get this all the time, but now it’s my turn. I have been using CHIRP with my Baofeng radios for the past couple of years with no problem. I recently had to upgrade my Mac OS to 10.11. Now I can’t get CHIRP to talk to my radios. I assume it is because the drivers are wrong or something. I have tried downloading the Prolific drivers. No luck so far. There used to be a pl2303 option on the drop down menu when I was uploading/ downloading. It isn’t there anymore. I’m not sure what to do at this point. Please help, I’m begging. Thanks, -Ted
Hi Ted,
My son-in-law gave me a MacBook Air a couple of months ago. I'm not a Mac user so I decided that my first project would be to see if I could get CHIRP running on it.
Most of my programming cables were furnished with the radios so virtually every one of the freebies has a counterfeit USB-to-TTL chip in it. So I knew up front that using device driver from the Prolific website was out of the question. I also have a homebrew programming cable that has a Silicon Labs chip and a few programming cables with FTDI chips.
So what I did was to purchase and install a 3rd party device driver from Repleo. It works for programming cables with Prolific PL2303 chips, WCH CH341 chips and Silicon Labs CP2102 chips. They want 7.90 euros for it which at the time I bought it came to $9.11 USD.
https://www.mac-usb-serial.com/
I used the native Apple driver for my programming cables with FTDI chips.
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On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 10:21 PM Jim Unroe rock.unroe@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 9:58 PM Ted Smith info@pikespeakparagliding.com wrote:
Hi, You guys probably get this all the time, but now it’s my turn. I have been using CHIRP with my Baofeng radios for the past couple of years with no problem. I recently had to upgrade my Mac OS to 10.11. Now I can’t get CHIRP to talk to my radios. I assume it is because the drivers are wrong or something. I have tried downloading the Prolific drivers. No luck so far. There used to be a pl2303 option on the drop down menu when I was uploading/ downloading. It isn’t there anymore. I’m not sure what to do at this point. Please help, I’m begging. Thanks, -Ted
Hi Ted,
My son-in-law gave me a MacBook Air a couple of months ago. I'm not a Mac user so I decided that my first project would be to see if I could get CHIRP running on it.
Most of my programming cables were furnished with the radios so virtually every one of the freebies has a counterfeit USB-to-TTL chip in it. So I knew up front that using device driver from the Prolific website was out of the question. I also have a homebrew programming cable that has a Silicon Labs chip and a few programming cables with FTDI chips.
So what I did was to purchase and install a 3rd party device driver from Repleo. It works for programming cables with Prolific PL2303 chips, WCH CH341 chips and Silicon Labs CP2102 chips. They want 7.90 euros for it which at the time I bought it came to $9.11 USD.
https://www.mac-usb-serial.com/
I used the native Apple driver for my programming cables with FTDI chips.
Jim KC9HI
As with with Prolific drivers for Windows, the Prolific company intentionally crippled their device driver so it won't work when paired with a counterfeit Prolific USB-to-TTL chip. Genuine Prolific chips in programming cables are rare. Out of the 20+ programming cables I have that are detected as having a Prolific chip, only 1 is genuine. It cost $25 because the vendor specifically went out of his way to source these programming cables with genuine Prolific chips.
Like Windows users still can, Mac users can no longer use the old generic drivers that are shown on the MacOS Tips page (which used to be the workaround Lion, Mountain Lion and Mavericks) because they are not signed. You either have to spend $9.11 and get the signed, 3rd-party device driver (which provides functionality with programming cables having PL2302 (Prolific), CH341 and CP2102 chips) or put the $9.11 toward an FTDI chip based programming cable that allows you to use the native Apple driver.
Jim KC9HI
I have a genuine FTDI cable on its way. We will see how that goes. I’ll keep you all posted. -Ted
On Sep 7, 2019, at 1:21 PM, Jim Unroe rock.unroe@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 10:21 PM Jim Unroe rock.unroe@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 9:58 PM Ted Smith info@pikespeakparagliding.com wrote:
Hi, You guys probably get this all the time, but now it’s my turn. I have been using CHIRP with my Baofeng radios for the past couple of years with no problem. I recently had to upgrade my Mac OS to 10.11. Now I can’t get CHIRP to talk to my radios. I assume it is because the drivers are wrong or something. I have tried downloading the Prolific drivers. No luck so far. There used to be a pl2303 option on the drop down menu when I was uploading/ downloading. It isn’t there anymore. I’m not sure what to do at this point. Please help, I’m begging. Thanks, -Ted
Hi Ted,
My son-in-law gave me a MacBook Air a couple of months ago. I'm not a Mac user so I decided that my first project would be to see if I could get CHIRP running on it.
Most of my programming cables were furnished with the radios so virtually every one of the freebies has a counterfeit USB-to-TTL chip in it. So I knew up front that using device driver from the Prolific website was out of the question. I also have a homebrew programming cable that has a Silicon Labs chip and a few programming cables with FTDI chips.
So what I did was to purchase and install a 3rd party device driver from Repleo. It works for programming cables with Prolific PL2303 chips, WCH CH341 chips and Silicon Labs CP2102 chips. They want 7.90 euros for it which at the time I bought it came to $9.11 USD.
https://www.mac-usb-serial.com/
I used the native Apple driver for my programming cables with FTDI chips.
Jim KC9HI
As with with Prolific drivers for Windows, the Prolific company intentionally crippled their device driver so it won't work when paired with a counterfeit Prolific USB-to-TTL chip. Genuine Prolific chips in programming cables are rare. Out of the 20+ programming cables I have that are detected as having a Prolific chip, only 1 is genuine. It cost $25 because the vendor specifically went out of his way to source these programming cables with genuine Prolific chips.
Like Windows users still can, Mac users can no longer use the old generic drivers that are shown on the MacOS Tips page (which used to be the workaround Lion, Mountain Lion and Mavericks) because they are not signed. You either have to spend $9.11 and get the signed, 3rd-party device driver (which provides functionality with programming cables having PL2302 (Prolific), CH341 and CP2102 chips) or put the $9.11 toward an FTDI chip based programming cable that allows you to use the native Apple driver.
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Anything here: https://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/MacOS_Tips of use?
On 05 September 2019 at 21:56 Ted Smith info@pikespeakparagliding.com wrote:
Hi, You guys probably get this all the time, but now it’s my turn. I have been using CHIRP with my Baofeng radios for the past couple of years with no problem. I recently had to upgrade my Mac OS to 10.11. Now I can’t get CHIRP to talk to my radios. I assume it is because the drivers are wrong or something. I have tried downloading the Prolific drivers. No luck so far. There used to be a pl2303 option on the drop down menu when I was uploading/ downloading. It isn’t there anymore. I’m not sure what to do at this point. Please help, I’m begging. Thanks, -Ted Ted Smith Pikes Peak Paragliding, LLC 2205 Charing Court Colorado Springs, CO 80919 info@PikesPeakParaGliding.com mailto:info@pikespeakparagliding.com 719.761.1486 EIN: 81-4065089
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Ted Smith