<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Dec 30, 2005, at 12:54 PM, KC2MMi wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Been trying to get my new D7 working with my new Powerbook.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I am using a</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">USB->Serial converter that shows up as /dev/tty.usbserial0 .</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I'd MOST STRONGLY suggest that first you try using the radio with a Wintel PC</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">(sorry) that has a real hardware serial port on it. In the Wintel world we see a</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">lot of problems caused by USB/Serial adapters that simply don't work 100%</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">properly. The fastest way to make sure that your cable & radio configuration are</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">correct, is to try them on a machine that has a real serial port so that is</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">simply not an issue.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>These usb/serial problems are largely confined to wintel boxes. If he were trying to get it to work on a windoze box your suggestion has much merit, but he isn't.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>If the device has Mac OS X drivers, it's probably gonna work. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess he's got a Keyspan device (because of the device special file name), in which case he's in good shape. I rate a Mac with a Keyspan serial adapter as being just as good as a wintel box with a hardware serial port.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>If you happen to have a computer with a real hardware serial port handy, fine, go test with it, but I wouldn't go to a whole lot of trouble to get one, especially if you haven't checked these things yet:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Other problems: Plain defective cables, even from Kenwood. Or pins2/3 cross</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">wired, triple check the pin outs and cables if they are home wired. Then swap</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">pins 2/3 and try again anyway, the diagrams and nomenclature are often unclear.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><DIV>Yep, check all these things at least twice.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>It would be terribly convenient if there was another ham in your neighborhood with a working cable you could borrow for a few minutes.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-Jason</DIV><DIV>kg4wsv</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>