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Chirp & Mac OS 10.12 (Sierra ... a no go?)

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sefrischling

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I upgraded my OS to 10.12 and Chirp will no longer allow me to access the USB programming cable

An error has occurred

could not open port /dev/cu.usbserial: [Errno 2]
No such file or directory: '/dev/cu.usbserial'

Anyone else? Any suggestions?
 

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Send a message to the folks that designed Chirp. They should come up with a fix rather quickly.
 

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Thanks, I just did that.

4 years or so of programming radios without a hitch. Channel had a PL change and now I have 5 radios with the wrong PL tone I can't fix.
 

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I am using it on 10.12.5 and it it working well, do you have the latest nightly build of Chirp? Are you using a different cable? I got a new cable a few weeks ago and it wasn't working, I had the same error as you. I thought there was something wrong at first, but I figured out that the cable had a different USB to Serial chipset and I had to find the driver for it. So there's at least two different manufacturers of chipsets out there with different drivers.You may have to reinstall the same drivers, or find new ones. Same thing happened to my USB-DAC when Sierra was released.
 

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I am using it on 10.12.5 and it it working well, do you have the latest nightly build of Chirp? Are you using a different cable?

Same two cables I have been using for a few years. One is in my bag, one is on my desk. I have updated to the latest version of Chirp. I even removed all the drivers and reinstalled them. I am on 10.12.5 as well. It just won't work and it is driving me nuts. There has been a PL change and I now I am deaf on that channel.
 

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I'm not really sure what it could be, but I can confirm that Chirp works on that version of MacOS with both Prolific 230x and FTDI chipset as I have used both in the last week or so.


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Cable problem

This is not really a CHIRP issue. Data cables use drivers that are designed to work with the radio/scanner and operating system. The programmers of CHIRP don't have time or resources to track every change that takes place from all the different manufacturers. The same thing happened to many on Windows 10 , especially the 64 bit version. The maker of the cable chip or radio has the responsibility to update the driver when there are changes. Sometimes that involves a new cable with new chips. I have both Uniden and GRE scanners that no longer work on Windows 10. That is why I have a Windows XP and Windows 7 32 bit computer for many of my older radios and scanners.
 

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These Baofeng radios giving me headache. I have never get my radios communicate to my MacBook 10.13 High Sierra.

Please inform me if you find the correct port name? ex: '/dev...../?'
I using lastest Chirp.



I upgraded my OS to 10.12 and Chirp will no longer allow me to access the USB programming cable

An error has occurred

could not open port /dev/cu.usbserial: [Errno 2]
No such file or directory: '/dev/cu.usbserial'

Anyone else? Any suggestions?
 
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