Re: USB to Serial drivers for Mac OS X

I have written a small program that uses RXTX to get data from electronic scales. We use USB to serial adapters on both Macs and Windows and it's been working pretty well.

     http://www.nervestaple.com/trac/scalemonitor

The bit where it talks to the usb serial adapter with RXTX is over here:

     http://www.nervestaple.com/trac/scalemonitor/browser/trunk/src/com/nervestaple/scalemonitor/serialportreader/SerialPortReader.java

There is a problem on OS X where RXTX won't work because it can't get a lock on some files in /var/spool. I have a script that fixes this problem (slightly adapted from the RXTX site) located here:

     http://www.nervestaple.com/projects/scalemonitor/dist/macosx-setup-rxtx.sh

I hope this is helpful,
-- Miles

On 2/23/06, Melvin Dave Vivas <email@hidden> wrote:

Hi,

I'm doing Java-SMS development using a GSM modem. I already have the USB-to-Serial cable. However, the vendor didn't ship a version of the driver for Mac OS X. Are there any generic software drivers out there that can connect my Serial GSM modem to my USB port in Mac OS X?

Actually, I want to support OS X in my next release of my open-source library(https://lemonsms.dev.java.net/ ) that's why I'm looking for a driver.

Cheers!

Melvin

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