Assuming you are looking for a plain old driver for your USB<-
>Serial device check out the following. Generally people seem to
have either the KeySpan connector like Scott said (which provides
drivers) or they have this one:
http://www.usbmax.com/U232-
P9_DB-9_Serial__Adapter_High_Speed_230K_USB_SERIAL_RS-232_.cfm
Which has drivers here:
http://www.mct.com.tw/driver.html
Which has a problem functioning correctly until you follow the
instructions here:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040205073630276
There a definitely a number of quirks programming for the
converters. You have to touch hardware a bit more. Sounds like
some people on the list have run into some of these issues. You
may want to look at a tutorial here:
http://www.easysw.com/~mike/serial/serial.html#2_5_3
Josh
On 2/23/06, Jerry <email@hidden> wrote:
On 23 Feb 2006, at 15:34, Scott Kovatch wrote:
>
> On Feb 23, 2006, at 3:25 AM, Melvin Dave Vivas wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> Who makes the USB to serial converter? When you say you have a USB-
> to-serial cable, are you talking about an adapter of some kind? Or
> do you really have a USB connector on one end and a 9 (or 25)-pin
> serial connector on the other?
>
> I was going to suggest that it might be faster for you to head over
> to your nearest computer store and pick up a Keyspan USB-to-Serial
> adapter, but I see you are in Singapore, so that might be easier
> said than done. :-) I don't know of any generic drivers, and
> there's no built-in support in the OS for converters.
Well, I bought one of those several years ago and I wouldn't
recommend it to anyone. I must have spent a month trying to get the
stupid thing to do anything at all before I saw the light and threw
it away. It would work for about two minutes, then you'd spend two
days trying to get it to work again. It had the most horrible-looking
and incomprehensible software I've seen looking like a DOS program
ported to the Mac (it made Epson scanner software look good). It
crashed the machine if you stupidly plugged it into a different USB
port from the last time you plugged it in unless you first delete its
preferences file. Keyspan never replied to any of the emails I sent
them and they'll never see another penny of my money ever again. Now
look what you've done: I'm all worked up again now. Where are my
pills?
Of course, your mileage may vary :-)
Jerry
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