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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.
mikeboss
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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 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.
mikeboss
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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 🙂
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.
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!