[Xastir] Mac OS X + USB Serial

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, Curt Mills wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, Michael Virgilio wrote:
>
>> I¹ve had no problems with Minicom (in a shell) or Zterm (gui not X11)
>> accessing the serial port.
>> I don¹t think AX.25 is an option for me, but haven¹t really looked into OS X
>> support for it.
>
> I don't think you have that option on MacOSX.
>
> Have you checked permissions on the USB port?  Tried another USB to
> serial device from another manufacturer?  I know that some work
> well and others don't, but I'm not a Mac user (or a USB user).

permissions might be a good one; i suspect minicom is setuid. i don't know 
how /dev/tty.usbserial0 is created as far as owner and mode. (the prolific 
driver and a pl2303 usb-serial frob work fine for me, but i doubt i'm 
doing what you are)