site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com On 8-Jun-08, at 14:49 , Allen Curtis wrote: Good news! http://sourceforge.net/projects/osx-pl2303/ Andre _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... I went to the Prolific website and downloaded the device driver from there. The package claims to be the same version that I have installed. Installed the driver again and then I could see one of the two devices I had purchased. (both of them were Prolific devices according to System Profiler) Now when you plug in the device, a device entry appears in /dev. The SerialPortSample program can find the device! Question: This time when I rebooted the system after installing the driver it said, updating the boot cache. I did not notice this message before. Should this always appear when installing a new driver? Perhaps this will be a clue in the future. If we are talking about a driver for the PL2303 chipset, then there is also an open source version of the driver (different code base to the official driver): This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com