[Xastir] Macintosh Snow Leopard + Xastir 2 + Kenwood TM-D710A = ?

[Chase Turner]

I can't speak to what the proper settings are for the Kenwood, but I can
tell you I never could get any serial/USB to work other than the Keyspan
one.  Maybe if I had fought it harder, I could have gotten the prolific to
work- but I did everything I read about drivers, various serial ports and
versions of drivers, etc. and nothing worked.  Get a Keyspan USB/Serial.  It
works with ease.

To answer your question about how to see the ports, check this site:

http://schmeits.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/usb-to-serial-for-mac-os-x-snow-leopard/

As to why it is crashing, I seem to recall having that problem while trying
to change interface settings while that port was active.  If you close that
interface (to DOWN status) and edit it, I believe it wasn't as prone to
crashing.

Best,
Chase
W4TI



On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:57 PM, Jarett DeAngelis <jdeangelis at alumni.nd.edu
> wrote:

> Hi gang,
>
> I'm trying to figure out how to get my Kenwood TM-D710A working with Xastir
> on my Snow Leopard-powered Mac.
>
> I have a Prolific Technology serial-USB Kenwood cable that I know works at
> least to program the radio with under Windows.  I know the programming cable
> doubles as a TNC connection cable.  I am pretty sure that you put the TNC
> into "PACKET12" mode to make it ready to transmit data via the port on the
> back of the head unit.
>
> Then what?  I tried configuring Xastir to use a "Serial KISS TNC" on
> /dev/ttys0.  When I start the device in Interface Control, Xastir freezes.
>  Not really sure where to proceed from here.
>
> Thanks in advance, folks.  I would RTFM if I had one ;)
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