any usb to serial cable driver for MACOS Montery

[Ahmed-midou]

any usb to serial cable driver for MACOS Montery.

when i had MAC bigsur everything was working perfect and i can console to my devices now i cannot anymore, this is due to missing usb to serial cable driver after the update to macos montery.

 

[chabig]

Where did you get the driver for Big Sur? Won't that work in Monterey?

 

[mikeboss]

I'm using "Serial" from decisive tactics. this has its own built-in driver:

Serial - Connect your Mac to Anything - Decisive Tactics, Inc.

www.decisivetactics.com

 

[chabig]

I would be surprised if Monterey changed much to affect the serial driver. Perhaps you might reinstall Serial and see what happens.

 

[Ahmed-midou]

Where did you get the driver for Big Sur? Won't that work in Monterey?

for mac bigsur i haven't installed any driver seems driver was preinstalled, i also tried download the driver for usb to serial cable for macbig and i am getting error version of driver not compatible with operating system.

 

[Ahmed-midou]

i have tried even the Serial 2 program from decisivetactics and there is no usb connection to ope see the screenshot

 

[mikeboss]

that is strange. Serial.app works with almost anything. list of supported devices:

Compatible Devices - Decisive Tactics, Inc.

www.decisivetactics.com

maybe get a new USB-to-serial converter, try another one?

EDIT:
just tried two different converters in Monterey 12.0.1 and they both showed up in Serial.app.

 

[mi7chy]

Use Homebrew lsusb to see if the system sees the USB serial dongle:

https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/lsusb

lsusb -v
USB:

    USB 3.1 Bus:

      Host Controller Driver: AppleT8103USBXHCI

    USB 3.1 Bus:

      Host Controller Driver: AppleT8103USBXHCI

        usb serial converter:

          Product ID: 0x6001
          Vendor ID: 0x0403  (Future Technology Devices International Limited)
          Version: 4.00
          Serial Number: ftDI
          Speed: Up to 12 Mb/s
          Manufacturer: ftdi
          Location ID: 0x00100000 / 1
          Current Available (mA): 500
          Current Required (mA): 44
          Extra Operating Current (mA): 0

Then, see if a tty has been established usually using the serial number as name:

ls /dev/tty.usb*
/dev/tty.usbserial-ftDI

Then, test connection:

screen /dev/tty.usbserial-ftDI 9600

I use a Cables Unlimited USB-2920 that's plug and plug on Monterey, Windows, Linux, etc. and has been 100% reliable for data center/MDF/IDF stuff.

https://www.amazon.com/Cables-Unlimited-USB-2920-USB2-0-Adapter/dp/B0006LSIOI

 

[mfram]

I've plugged a USB-Serial adapter into my Monterey MBP that contains an FTDI chipset. It's working as expected using the 'screen' utility in Terminal. The adapter is embedded in a proprietary board, but works with that chipset. To the OP, maybe trying something with an FTDI chipset? They are pretty common in the USB-Serial world in my experience. Note that I have an Intel MBP if it matters.