32- and 64-bit PL2303 drivers for OS X 10.6 are available here.
You'll need to modify, as root, the '/System/Library/Extensions/ProlificUsbSerial.kext/Contents/Info.plist ' file after installing the driver to suit the USB manufacturer and device ID. For the ATEN UC232A, examples below appear to work for it (for me in 10.7).
To obtain the IDs, Wayne Roberts (who informed my via the SAGE-AU mailing lists), used 'USB Prober.app' which comes with the developer tools/XCode.
Modify the current lines of the XML:
[text]
# <key> can be the Hex values as 'Vendor'_'Product', Wayne thinks this is more cosmetic however.
<dict>
<key>0557_2008</key>
<dict>
----
# <idProduct> and <idVendor> should be the decimal of the respective values, as per USB Prober.app
<key>idProduct</key>
<integer>8200</integer>
<key>idVendor</key>
<integer>1367</integer>
[/text]
Once you've done this, either restart the machine or run 'kextunload' and 'kextload' on ProlificUsbSerial.kext and it should show up as /dev/tty.usbserial.
** If you have installed the UC232A Drivers, either rm or mv the 'UC-232AC.kext' before the reboot to avoid conflicts **
Thanks for these tips. Unfortunately I am like Marton, where the Aten device can be seen in USB device tree (via 10.7 AKA Lion, System Profiler) but /dev/tty.usbserial isn’t there and I don’t seem to be able to communicate with my attached Zebra serial barcode printer via the ATEN UC232A.
Any other advice. Many thanks in advance!
Buggar for both you two. You sure you edited the device? You don’t have any kexts from other drivers conflicting do you? I did and had to manually rm it …
Thanks for the tip. I had this ATEN adapter working before and got broken when updating for Lion. Look’s like working now, but with with a different device name than before. No biggie.
…just an FYI – this is good info for getting the ATEN adapter working:
http://xbsd.nl/2011/07/pl2303-serial-usb-on-osx-lion.html
Just follow the steps and viola!
Not working at all on Lion 10.1…
I using this guide http://xbsd.nl/2011/07/pl2303-serial-usb-on-osx-lion.html,
and my USB converter working again…
Add another product vendor key to support multiple vendors
Using the Prolific 1.4 version of the driver (www.prolific.com.tw/eng/download.asp) you can just add another block. So in the end you have something like this:
<key'067B_2303'><dict>...<key>idProduct</key><integer>8963</integer><key>idVendor</key><integer>1659</integer></dict><key'0557_2008'><dict>...<key>idProduct</key><integer>8200</integer><key>idVendor</key><integer>1367</integer></dict>This way different vendor’s usb-serial adapters will work (ATEN and Prolific OEM in my case)
YMMV,
Blockfish
The extension doesn’t load at boot. This only works for me, when I go to the terminal and execute: sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/ProlificUsbSerial.kext/
How do I get the extension to load automatically at boot?
(I forgot to tik the two “Notify me of…”. So just delete my previous post.)
The extension doesn’t load at boot. This only works for me, when I go to the terminal and execute: sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/ProlificUsbSerial.kext/
How do I get the extension to load automatically at boot?
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This post got me very close to getting my Aten UC232A working on OSX 10.7.5, I had to change what I added to Info.plist
Here is the entire Info.plist my additions are line numbers 45 through 61. Once I made the additions the performed kextunload then kextload everything is working perfect.
1
2
3
4
5 CFBundleDevelopmentRegion
6 English
7 CFBundleExecutable
8 ProlificUsbSerial
9 CFBundleGetInfoString
10 ProlificUsbSerial v2.2.0, Copyright 2006 Prolific Technology Inc.
11 CFBundleIdentifier
12 com.prolific.driver.PL2303
13 CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion
14 6.0
15 CFBundleName
16 Mac OS X Driver for Prolific USB-to-Serial Bridge Device
17 CFBundlePackageType
18 KEXT
19 CFBundleShortVersionString
20 2.2.0
21 CFBundleSignature
22 ????
23 CFBundleVersion
24 2.0.0
25 IOKitPersonalities
26
27 067B_2303
28
29 CFBundleIdentifier
30 com.prolific.driver.PL2303
31 IOClass
32 com_prolific_driver_PL2303
33 IOProviderClass
34 IOUSBInterface
35 bConfigurationValue
36 1
37 bInterfaceNumber
38 0
39 idProduct
40 8963
41 idVendor
42 1659
43
44
45 0557_2008
46
47 CFBundleIdentifier
48 com.prolific.driver.PL2303
49 IOClass
50 com_prolific_driver_PL2303
51 IOProviderClass
52 IOUSBInterface
53 bConfigurationValue
54 1
55 bInterfaceNumber
56 0
57 idProduct
58 8200
59 idVendor
60 1367
61
62
63
64
65 OSBundleLibraries
66
67 com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily
68 1.0.4
69 com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily
70 1.8
71 com.apple.kpi.iokit
72 10.0.0
73 com.apple.kpi.libkern
74 10.0.0
75 com.apple.kpi.mach
76 10.0.0
77
78
79
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