[Xastir] iBook USB to MacBook Pro USB

[Curt, WE7U]

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, Keith Kaiser wrote:

> On my old iBook I connected to my D700 through the USB port using /dev/
> cu.USA19H191P1.1, but this is not working on my new MacBook Pro. Does
> anyone know what I should be using or how to determine it. I'm still
> using the same Keyspan USB to serial converter that I did before so
> I'm pretty sure the number is correct.
>
> When I try to connect, nothing happens, it doesn't blink, fail, start,
> nothing. So I'm guessing it's the device. I looked in the system
> profiler and the Mac can see the Keyspan device so that part of the
> connection is OK, but it doesn't tell me the port its on or more
> likely, I don't know how to read it. Any help would be appreciated.

What I do on Linux to find out a device name is do "tail -f
/var/log/messages" and then plug in the device and see what shows
up.

With my USB joystick I had to do some more stuff before I could use
it with BZFlag, but the above method told me which port it was on.

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