Re: Identifying port names for users
Re: Identifying port names for users
- Subject: Re: Identifying port names for users
- From: Mark Thomas <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 18:08:10 +0100
- Organization: Coderus Ltd
Being to think this is not even worth trying to do :-(.
I guess you mean the portname.strings, which only has a very few and don't
even work for the irda device either, so looks like there a specialties all
about :-(
This seems a complete mess :-(, for a general solution configure solution.
Mark.
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Hi Mark,
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Am Donnerstag, 10.04.03 um 17:05 Uhr schrieb Mark Thomas:
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> Hmmmm no spaces, so that means that web shuttle (ws_imlppp) one might
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> work,
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> but not "bt digital access usb", if I can find this file.
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The spaces seem to confuse the Network config panel only - so don't
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bother... I once patched that list to ignore our 30 faxmodem ports on
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our AngeloVX board. Can you imagine having 30 additional, useless ports
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showing up in your network panel? And if you remove the card, you have
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to manually delete each entry one by one!
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I then discovered that the ignore feature only works with ports that
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have no spaces in their names...
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> ...
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> But this is traveling over to the IOREgistry, and is this just
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> specific for
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> the WebShuttle ???.
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Yes, this is just a left over from previous tries (and taken from the
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original CDC driver which also set(s) a 'Product Name' entry).
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There seems no official way for an app to display better port names
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than the BSD TTY/CU names. Keyspan's serial adapters show up in a
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similar fashion, btw. Only the names listed in
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/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/NetworkConfig.framework/Versions/A/
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Resources string lists might be translated...
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Bernd
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