[Xastir] iBook USB to MacBook Pro USB

[Gerry Creager]

you might also be able to use 'dmesg' and/or look at the results of 
'/sbin/lsusb'

gerry

Curt, WE7U wrote:
> 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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