OS X Leopard and USB to Serial driver

Hi I need to work with a router using a usb to serial converter
I had installed all this 3 drivers
http://sourceforge.net/projects/osx-pl2303/

http://serialio.com/products/adaptors/usb_serial.php

http://www.keyspan.com/downloads/

and they doesn't work, I do ls /dev/tty.* in terminal but I don't see a new thing there, I only see:

/dev/tty.BlackBerry8130-BlackBer-1 /dev/tty.Bluetooth-PDA-Sync
/dev/tty.Bluetooth-Modem

I'm following this instructions:
First, open Terminal. If you've never used it before, it's under Applications/Utilities/Terminal. Next, type

ls /dev/tty.*
to get a list of all of your serial ports. Pick the one that you want to open. For example, my list looks like this:

/dev/tty.BTRS232 /dev/tty.Tigoe6630-AppleAgent-1
/dev/tty.Bluetooth-Modem /dev/tty.Tigoe6630-Dial-UpNetwor-2
/dev/tty.KeySerial1 /dev/tty.modem
And I know from previous experience that /dev/tty.Keyserial1 is my Keyspan USB-to-serial adaptor. It's connected to a PIC at the moment. The PIC's programmed to read one byte of serial data at 9600 bits per second, then send back three bytes, "A", "B" and "C".

Knowing the serial port, you can just type screen portname datarate to show the serial data on the screen. In my case, it was:

screen /dev/tty.Keyserial1 9600
Then I started typing bytes at the PIC, and it sent bytes back to me. Whee! No need for zTerm! To quit the screen app, tyoe control-A, then control-\.

any help, please?

MBP 17", Intel C2D 2.33 GHZ 3GB RAM, Mac OS X (10.5.7)

Posted on Jun 15, 2009 7:48 PM

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Jun 16, 2009 5:04 AM in response to stitch626

The Prolific driver (PL-2303) loads dynamically. There's a chip in the adapter that will be "seen" when connected, and the appropriate driver loaded. The device file should be /dev/tty.PL2303-xxxxxxxx where the x's are a unique hex identifier. If that's not happening, your adapter either doesn't have a Prolific chip, or the driver did not install correctly. Here's the installer from Prolific's site.

http://www.prolific.com.tw/eng/downloads.asp?ID=31

Jun 19, 2009 8:43 AM in response to stitch626

When using the serial port on my keyspan, the device file that I open is
/dev/**.KeySerial1. But there is also the tty.KeySerial1 device file.

You'll also want to be sure that the kernel extention is loaded. For Keyspan it should
look something like:


$ kextstat | grep Keyspan
112 0 0x344d4000 0x5a000 0x59000 com.keyspan.iokit.usb.KeyspanUSAdriver (2.4) <101 40 12>

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