- #USB SERIAL ADAPTER FOR MAC HOW TO#
- #USB SERIAL ADAPTER FOR MAC FOR MAC#
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For official documentation on manipulating the FTDI driver or uninstalling it, see FTDI Application Note 134.
#USB SERIAL ADAPTER FOR MAC HOW TO#
For an example of how to alter the device ID or disable the built-in driver (follow just step 1), see this blog post. Supposedly, the driver priority of the built-in driver is set so that installing the official driver will override it without causing any conflicts, however I have not conclusively verified this. If you encounter strange issues of any kind with the built-in driver, try the official FTDI driver as well. If not, you will have to alter the expected device ID in the driver configuration. If you are lucky enough to have a converter identifying itself using one of the common FTDI USB product IDs, then the serial device will simply appear. Drivers for other converters may also be present, but I have not used them. Starting with 10.10, a driver for at least FTDI-based converters now ships with the OS. You will need to install a third-party driver, e.g. These versions do not come with drivers for any USB to serial converter of which I am aware. I have found FTDI devices to perform more consistently. Of the two, I found the open source PL2303 driver to be slow and observed occasional data corruption (I did not try the closed source driver but heard worse things). For instance, two common chips include the FTDI series (official driver here) and the Prolific PL2303 chipset (open source driver here, closed source driver here). Given variability in driver quality and compatibility, you may want to try a few models and driver implementation. You probably want a USB to serial converter, of which there are a variety. The first step is to get an RS232 serial port on your Mac, which hasn't been built-in for a long, long time.
#USB SERIAL ADAPTER FOR MAC FOR MAC#
#USB SERIAL ADAPTER FOR MAC MAC OS X#
I first tried googling around, and I encountered a few references to this issue on various Mac forums. One of two things is generally meant by this, either using a Mac as the interface to a serial device (accomplished by running a terminal emulator program on the Mac), or using another machine to connect to the Mac over serial and accessing the shell provided by the Mac.
Setting up a Serial Console in Mac OS X Setting up a Serial Console in Mac OS X