PL-2303 (H, HX, X chips) Mac OS 8 & 9 driver v1.3.6 build 1 mdpl2303Mac89v136b1.zip. PL-2303 USB to Serial Bridge (H. Version 1.5.1 is available for Mac OS X on 64 bit, 32 bit and PPC machines. Prolific PL-2303 cables - official drivers for the genuine Prolific cables. Windows: PL2303 Windows Driver Download; Mac OS: PL2303 Mac OS X Driver Download; Android: PL2303 Android Driver SDK Solution; M-215+ is a dual-system(GPS + GLONASS) GNSS. If you ask me to recommended a replacement product, I will say GNSS200L Tri-system(GPS+GLONASS+GALILEO) GNSS. PL-2303 (Chip Rev H, HX, X) USB to Serial Adapter. Windows Driver Installer Manual. For Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7 Operating Systems Driver Installer v1.4.17 Release.
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As of MacOS 10.9, signed packages are required by default. Apple charges for this capability, and requires use of their tooling to do it. For the time being, MacOS users may need to disable signed package checking for CHIRP. Instructions provided by Jim, K2SON:
Alternately, you can disable them for your entire system, although this has security implications that should not be ignored. Instructions for this provided by Tom, KD7LXL:
As of 10.12 (Sierra) the UI for disabling app security was removed. The functionality is still there, but must be enabled from the command line.
To whitelist a single application (like an unzipped chirp-daily.app):Alternately, you can disable them for your entire system, although this has security implications that should not be ignored. Run this command in a terminal:
references: single commandglobal
Unfortunately, Apple has made significant changes in 10.15 which cause major issues for independent software developers. CHIRP is significantly impacted and the future is unclear.
At the very least, Catalina users should use the 'unified' build of the app provided on the download page, which uses the system's 64-bit python runtime. Also note that there are significant limitations on what files unsigned applications can access which makes it very difficult to open, save, find, and otherwise organize image and CSV files with chirp. Please see issue #7147 for the current information about workarounds.
USB to serial cables are not merely wire, they contain small computer circuits at one end of the cable that respond as a USB device and convert the data to serial. These cables are not all the same, so the computer needs a software 'driver' so it can recognize the cable and speak to it correctly. You will need to install one of these 5 below.
Note that with Mac OSX 10.9 'Mavericks', Apple provides their own driver for FTDI chipset. You may need to remove the OEM FTDI driver and use only the Apple FTDI driver, or you may need to disable the Apple FTDI driver and install the OEM FTDI drivers. YMMV.
http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm
Version 1.5.1 is available for Mac OS X on 64 bit, 32 bit and PPC machines.
FYI: your cable, if using Prolific chipset, is more likely to be using a counterfeit chip than an original.
http://www.prolific.com.tw/US/CustomerLogin.aspx
Login as guest/ guest & look in the Support section. Specified to work with Mac OSX 10.6, 10.7, & 10.8.
You can try this one, which install open source pl2303 driver and remove any other driver versions:
http://1drv.ms/Nl68Ru At this web page you may need to right-click or control-click to link to get it to download. After downloading, you may need to control-right click, then open in order to bypass Mac Gatekeeper.
see RTSystemsCablesAndMavericks
https://www.rtsystemsinc.com/kb_results.asp?ID=9
http://www.rtsystems.us/downloads/MacDrivers/RTSystemUSBSerialDrivers.pkg.mpkg.zip
The WinChipHead CH340 series chipset is not compatible with the Prolific 2303 drivers. This chipset will report a Product ID of 0x7523 and a Vendor ID of 0x1a86. A signed driver compatible with Yosemite is available from http://blog.sengotta.net/signed-mac-os-driver-for-winchiphead-ch340-serial-bridge/ as the driver offered on the manufacturer's website (in Chinese) is not signed and requires allowing unsigned kernel extensions, which is a significant security risk on OS X.
You can verify that the drivers are installed & working by connecting the USB cable to your Mac, then running “System Profiler”, or “System Information” (found in /Applications/Utilities ). When the USB cable is connected and drivers correctly installed, the cable will show up in the USB section of the System Profiler.
Another way to see that the driver is correctly installed is to open Terminal and type:
It will return a list of virtual serial ports including something similar to:
You may also type:
That will return a long list of kexts, including something similar to this at the bottom (most recently installed are listed last):
Look at the CHIRP log for clues.
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