From what I was told by the company that makes the USB to serial adaptor, I don't need a driver for the os I am running mac os x 10.5.7 the person I had talked from the company had me go to my apple menu and there was a listing under USB that said something like USB-serial the person I talked to said that the adaptor cable is alright. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 12, 2009, at 11:31 AM, Cheryl Homiak <chomiak at charter.net> wrote: > First of all, if you are running Macosx as you said you were on the > brltty list, you need a driver for the serial-usb cable. > > Second, the ports on the Mac are not named the same as in linux. > Usually it would be /dev/cu. with something after the period; for my > prolific cable it's /dev/cu.usbserial but for my keyspan I've had > different designations like /dev/cu.USa19H1d1P1.1 Once you have he > driver installed an dhave the cable and device plugged in, you can run > > ls /dev/cu.* and see what your choices are. That would be ls /dev/cu then a period and then an asterix *? > > If you are not running Macosx but have put some other unix system on > your Mac, see the documentation for that system. > > > -- > Cheryl > "Let the words of my mouth, > and the meditation of my heart, > be acceptable in thy sight, > O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer." > (Psalm 19:14 Bible KJV) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
