CHIRP on OSX 10.11.x

[cl0123]

Aloha from the middle of the big pond and a real novice. Thanks to the local radio club, I recently passed my HAM (Tech & General) 3 weeks ago. On impulse, I purchased the Baofeng UV-5R5 with a $2 cable. I tried for a couple of days and still could not find the right driver for the cable. Earlier today, I had lunch with my instructor and he was able to program my radio using his laptop and a wouxun cable.

Following the instructions from the Prolific site, I tried a few times to clean out all old drivers and install their PL2303_MacOSX_1.6.1_20160309.zip driver. Yet, still no luck
CHIRP - No response from radio. All I can find is a /dev/cu.Bluetooth-incoming-Port. Nothing like USB.
System/USB - No new USB driver installed

My instructor tried my $2 cable on his laptop and it didn't work. When he let me uses his wouxun cable on my own Macbook Pro, I got the same radio no response.

Anyone able to use an OSX machine connected to Prolific or FFDTI drivers?

Thanks in advance,

Clarence

 

[ki7chd]

Nothing else in /dev/cu*? Toss a couple bucks and use this: https://www.mac-usb-serial.com/

 

[Kb2Jpd]

Aloha from the middle of the big pond and a real novice. Thanks to the local radio club, I recently passed my HAM (Tech & General) 3 weeks ago. On impulse, I purchased the Baofeng UV-5R5 with a $2 cable. I tried for a couple of days and still could not find the right driver for the cable. Earlier today, I had lunch with my instructor and he was able to program my radio using his laptop and a wouxun cable.



Following the instructions from the Prolific site, I tried a few times to clean out all old drivers and install their PL2303_MacOSX_1.6.1_20160309.zip driver. Yet, still no luck

CHIRP - No response from radio. All I can find is a /dev/cu.Bluetooth-incoming-Port. Nothing like USB.

System/USB - No new USB driver installed



My instructor tried my $2 cable on his laptop and it didn't work. When he let me uses his wouxun cable on my own Macbook Pro, I got the same radio no response.



Anyone able to use an OSX machine connected to Prolific or FFDTI drivers?



Thanks in advance,



Clarence

I used BootCamp, which creates a Windows partition and let's you do all that. I used CHIRP as well as the factory programming software.

The Mac found the correct drivers and all worked well.

Get the Baofeng cable and label it so you get confused with your private rats nest of cables.

Then go enjoy yourself. If you need the drivers go to the miklor website and download them.

I own a MacBook Pro with the SuperDrive removed and a SSD drive put in its place for top speed.


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[wa8pyr]

Aloha from the middle of the big pond and a real novice. Thanks to the local radio club, I recently passed my HAM (Tech & General) 3 weeks ago. On impulse, I purchased the Baofeng UV-5R5 with a $2 cable. I tried for a couple of days and still could not find the right driver for the cable. Earlier today, I had lunch with my instructor and he was able to program my radio using his laptop and a wouxun cable.

Following the instructions from the Prolific site, I tried a few times to clean out all old drivers and install their PL2303_MacOSX_1.6.1_20160309.zip driver. Yet, still no luck
CHIRP - No response from radio. All I can find is a /dev/cu.Bluetooth-incoming-Port. Nothing like USB.
System/USB - No new USB driver installed

My instructor tried my $2 cable on his laptop and it didn't work. When he let me uses his wouxun cable on my own Macbook Pro, I got the same radio no response.

Anyone able to use an OSX machine connected to Prolific or FFDTI drivers?

I've never had any issues using CHIRP on my MBP, but I have a good cable with FTDI chipset and use the official drivers from the FTDI web site.

Most problems of this nature can be traced to the ultra-inexpensive devices and their less than stellar characteristics.

There are a lot of counterfeit Prolific chips running around out there, and unlike Windows, Mac can be pretty finicky about oddball devices, so I generally try to avoid anything with a Prolific chip. That being said, I have several USB>Serial adapters with Prolific chips that work just fine, but they're brand name hardware and more than a few years old, so they probably predate most of the counterfeit Prolific chips.

 

[cl0123]

Thanks everyone for the suggestions. It puzzled me when I couldn't see the radio on my MBP using a Wouxon (supposedly FTDI) cable that my instructor just used to program the local frequencies list into my radio the minute ago. He runs a Windows laptop with the necessary drivers for all of his cables. Although I tried installing & re-installing the Prolific drivers from Prolific site as well as Miklor, I didn't realize there's counterfeit Prolific chips.

My next course of action will be getting a genuine FTDI cable & find the correct OSX driver for it. Hope that would work because I saw a neat YouTube trick that CHIRP can actually pull in a set of local frequencies via CHIRP.

With Aloha,

Clarence


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