Thanks for the update. It's good to know whether some add-on card works OK with wake-from-sleep.
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RS-232 Serial Card for ML
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RS-232 Serial Card for ML
The card works absolutely great. I hate to tie up a slot, but that's what they're for. The dongle just wouldn't cut it for my particular needs. I'll try messing around with the dongle later down the road. It's not a pressing issue now.
The card works absolutely great. I hate to tie up a slot, but that's what they're for. The dongle just wouldn't cut it for my particular needs. I'll try messing around with the dongle later down the road. It's not a pressing issue now.
after reading this thread I ordered an AXXON LF659KB from softio. delivery took only two days to europe! really nice guys up there in canada 
I had to set one of the jumpers on the PCIe card to "Linux-Mode". after that, it worked in OS X snow leopard (no additional drivers needed).
I had to set one of the jumpers on the PCIe card to "Linux-Mode". after that, it worked in OS X snow leopard (no additional drivers needed).
after reading this thread I ordered an AXXON LF659KB from softio. delivery took only two days to europe! really nice guys up there in canada
I didn't have to set any jumpers. I didn't even notice any. I suppose they probably did that for me prior to shipping. The actually installed it in a MP and ran several tests to verify compatibility for my needs. Glad you told me about that. I'll have to pull it out again just to have a look.
AXXON/softio support confirmed that the jumpers (there are two) do nothing apart from altering the PCI device IDs. I am dual booting Windows 7 and Snow Leopard. if I set the jumper to windows-mode, the card was recognized by OSX but when trying to establish a connection all I got was gibberish. so I set it to Linux-mode, but then the windows drivers would not load. I then edited the INF file of the windows driver so they will load even if the card is set to Linux-mode. problem solved
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does your serial port show up under Yosemite? on my system I can see that the KEXT gets loaded properly but none of my terminal emulation apps is able to see the serial port...
does your serial port show up under Yosemite? on my system I can see that the KEXT gets loaded properly but none of my terminal emulation apps is able to see the serial port...
I haven't used this card in a long time now. When I get a chance, I'll remove something from a PCIe slot and check it out.
after updating Yosemite with the 10.10.2 prerelease version, the serial port is showing up again
after updating Yosemite with the 10.10.2 prerelease version, the serial port is showing up again
That's great news. Yosemite still falls short on a few things, but hopefully they'll get worked out before the next version screws everything up again.
Very old thread, I know, but I was wondering if anyone monitoring this thread has any experience with the PL-2303 and VMware Fusion? I use this quite often connecting to other devices, and it seems that there could be a timing issue with Windows XP, 7, or 8.x as the guest OS. Has anyone compared the PL-2303 with a driver in OS X and passthrough a Serial port to the VM, or, as I have done, passed the USB device through to the VM and installed the PL-2303 driver in there.
This would be strictly for a notebook and not a desktop.
Thanks!
This would be strictly for a notebook and not a desktop.
Thanks!