[Rxtx] RXTX OSX installer problems

[Bob Jacobsen]

Are you sure it's a PL2303 device?

Open  System Profiler, click the USB selection, and see if the device is visible as hardware.  If so, check it's type information, etc.

Bob

On Nov 11, 2010, at 7:27 AM, Ronald van Raaphorst wrote:

> Thanks all for pointing out that I should look in the /dev and find the port.
> It isn't there, so I tried to install a pl2303 driver,
> 
> from http://github.com/downloads/failberg/osx-pl2303/osx-pl2303-0.4.1-failberg.pkg
> (via the link in the ReadMe section of https://github.com/failberg/osx-pl2303)
> 
> I also tried http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/drivers/prolificpl2303driverfor64bitmacosx.html
> and http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/drivers/pl2303usbtoserialdriver.html
> 
> All to no avail. None of them show an extra port in /dev...
> Does anyone have another solution?
> 
> Ronald
> 
> 
> 
> On Nov 10, 2010, at 6:23 PM, Brian Schlining wrote:
> 
>> The installer works, when I run it on a fresh installed OSX Snow Leopard 10.6 machine,
>> the app runs and I can see some ports (/dev/tty.Bluetooth-PDA-Sync and /dev/cu.Bluetooth-PDA-Sync).
>> But I can't see the port where my hardware is attached.
>> 
>> On my development machine (10.6 too) everything works (I see an additional port when the hardware is attached).
>> I can't see the difference.
>> 
>> Did you install drivers for your USB-to-Serial dongle on both machines?
>>  
>> Install the app in /Applications
>> Install librxtxSerial.jnilib and librxtxSerial.so in /Library/Java/Extensions
>> Install RXTXcomm.jar in /Library/Java/Extensions
>> 
>> It's not a good idea to install RXTX into /Library/Java/Extensions. You should configure your apps classpath and java.lib.path to use locally packaged jars and libraries (e.g. in /Applications/YourApp.app/lib)
>>  
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