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Richard-6

Mac vs K3s - Again

Working hard to wean my K3s off a SignaLink and connect it directly via a standard A/B USB cable. Results have been frustrating but encouraging. The particulars are these.

Mac mini
Late 2012
2.5 GHz Intel Core i5
8 GB RAM
Running 10.12.6 Sierra

K3s 100

I’m going to try replacing the probably out of date FTDI driver with a new driver from SciLabs. Do I need to remove the old FTDI driver before installing the new SciLabs driver?

NOTE: I have a grand old IC-706MkIIG now also running WSJT-X 2.2.2 through a SignaLink with absolutely no problems. Assuming this setup uses the old FTDI driver, dare I risk messing up that setup by changing to the new SciLabs driver? I really don’t want to do that.

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Cheers!

Richard Kunc - W4KBX
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Chuck Shefflette - AA3CS

Re: Mac vs K3s - Again

If you have a 3rd party FTDI driver installed, that may be part of the
problem. MacOS has had FTDI drivers since at least 10.12. I also would
seriously suggest updating to at least the last update of 10.13; 10.14
would be better.

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On Sat, Jan 23, 2021, 11:50 Richard <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Working hard to wean my K3s off a SignaLink and connect it directly via a
> standard A/B USB cable. Results have been frustrating but encouraging. The
> particulars are these.
>
> Mac mini
> Late 2012
> 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5
> 8 GB RAM
> Running 10.12.6 Sierra
>
> K3s 100
>
> I’m going to try replacing the probably out of date FTDI driver with a new
> driver from SciLabs. Do I need to remove the old FTDI driver before
> installing the new SciLabs driver?
>
> NOTE: I have a grand old IC-706MkIIG now also running WSJT-X 2.2.2 through
> a SignaLink with absolutely no problems. Assuming this setup uses the old
> FTDI driver, dare I risk messing up that setup by changing to the new
> SciLabs driver? I really don’t want to do that.
>
> Replies here are fine but please CC me at [hidden email]
>
> Cheers!
>
> Richard Kunc - W4KBX
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Re: Mac vs K3s - Again

In reply to this post by Richard-6

Given that you are running generally older hardware and system software, you probably don'tneed to worry about how "out of date" your FTDI driver might be. (I'm running a 2017 iMac withBig Sur installed and working beautifully). I assume that your USB hardware really is FTDI andnot one of the infamous clones that have been discussed to death here and in other forums.If it really is FTDI, then D2XX Drivers - FTDI lists version 1.4.22 as having been released on21 January 2021 (!) and is suitable for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or later, which should be OK for you.

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HTH and 73,
Brandy, N1HO

On Saturday, January 23, 2021, 11:51:23 AM EST, Richard <[hidden email]> wrote:

Working hard to wean my K3s off a SignaLink and connect it directly via a standard A/B USB cable. Results have been frustrating but encouraging. The particulars are these.

Mac mini
Late 2012
2.5 GHz Intel Core i5
8 GB RAM
Running 10.12.6 Sierra

K3s 100

I’m going to try replacing the probably out of date FTDI driver with a new driver from SciLabs. Do I need to remove the old FTDI driver before installing the new SciLabs driver?

NOTE: I have a grand old IC-706MkIIG now also running WSJT-X 2.2.2 through a SignaLink with absolutely no problems. Assuming this setup uses the old FTDI driver, dare I risk messing up that setup by changing to the new SciLabs driver? I really don’t want to do that.

Replies here are fine but please CC me at [hidden email]

Cheers!

Richard Kunc - W4KBX
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stengrevics

Re: Mac vs K3s - Again

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Hi Richard,

I’ve never downloaded a driver to use my Mac with my K3S.

73,

John
WA1EAZ

> On Jan 23, 2021, at 11:50 AM, Richard <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Working hard to wean my K3s off a SignaLink and connect it directly via a standard A/B USB cable. Results have been frustrating but encouraging. The particulars are these.
>
> Mac mini
> Late 2012
> 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5
> 8 GB RAM
> Running 10.12.6 Sierra
>
> K3s 100
>
> I’m going to try replacing the probably out of date FTDI driver with a new driver from SciLabs. Do I need to remove the old FTDI driver before installing the new SciLabs driver?
>
> NOTE: I have a grand old IC-706MkIIG now also running WSJT-X 2.2.2 through a SignaLink with absolutely no problems. Assuming this setup uses the old FTDI driver, dare I risk messing up that setup by changing to the new SciLabs driver? I really don’t want to do that.
>
> Replies here are fine but please CC me at [hidden email]
>
> Cheers!
>
> Richard Kunc - W4KBX
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Bill Frantz

Re: Mac vs K3s - Again

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You should use the standard Apple FTDI driver. It works.

I had similar problems to yours until I purged my system of all
non-Apple drivers.

BTW, I am now running Mojave 10.14.6. I'm back here so I can run
my 32 bit applications like cocoaModem and cocoaNEC.

73 Bill AE6JV

On 1/23/21 at 11:50 AM, [hidden email] (Richard) wrote:

>I’m going to try replacing the probably out of date FTDI
>driver with a new driver from SciLabs. Do I need to remove the
>old FTDI driver before installing the new SciLabs driver?

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On 1/23/21 at 12:32 PM, [hidden email] (Bill Frantz) wrote:

>I had similar problems to yours until I purged my system of all non-Apple drivers.

Digging deeper into Richard's issue, I found this note I wrote
myself when I had a problem very similar to his:

FTDI Driver Issues on MacOX

I upgraded my computer to MacOS High Sierra and found it could
not contact the K3. The K3 utility failed, RUMlogNG failed, and
wsjt-x failed. I found the following by robertklep on the web:

What seems to have worked for me is actually removing the FTDI
driver (/Library/Extensions/FTDIUSBSerialDriver.kext), after
finding that Apple ships an FTDI driver with the OS itself (/System/Library/Extensions/AppleUSBFTDI.kext).

I moved the driver out of
/Library/Extensions/FTDIUSBSerialDriver.kext and things started
working again.

I hope this note may help someone else.

73 Bill AE6JV

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