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Macbook Pro Late 2008 usb to serial cable stops communicating after Yosemite upgrade

I recently updated my MacbookPro to Yosemite and have found that my usb to serial cable no longer works. I've tried reinstalled drivers multiple times with no success when I connect my Gigaware usb to serial cable and conect my cisco console cable which used to work fine on Mavericks but now I get no output in my terminal program secureCRT.


I when my cable is connect I see the following in dev


hugh-millers-macbook-pro-77:dev Yogi$ ls tty.*

tty.Bluetooth-Incoming-Port tty.HughsiPhone-WirelessiAP

tty.Bluetooth-Modem tty.PL2303-00002006


hugh-millers-macbook-pro-77:dev Yogi$ ls *PL*

cu.PL2303-00002006 tty.PL2303-00002006

hugh-millers-macbook-pro-77:dev Yogi$


Here is what I see in System Information


USB-Serial Controller:


Product ID: 0x0fba

Vendor ID: 0x05ad (Y.C. Cable U.S.A., Inc)

Version: 3.00

Speed: Up to 12 Mb/sec

Manufacturer: Prolific Technology Inc.

Location ID: 0x04100000 / 4

Current Available (mA): 500

Current Required (mA): 100


SecureCRT is set to use /dev/cu.PL2303-00002006


Has anyone experienced this issue, can anyone assist?


Mac Info


MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2008)

2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)

Posted on Dec 7, 2014 3:05 PM

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Dec 11, 2014 8:22 AM in response to YogiHM

You can use this : http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/51344/serial but let me tell you that last night I found the way to do it with Coolterm for free http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/31352/coolterm


I think that the problem is the installation , you have to copy to sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/ProlificUsbSerial.kext or in my case I used this as reference, now it is working....


http://www.xbsd.nl/2011/07/pl2303-serial-usb-on-osx-lion.html


I hope this can help

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Dec 12, 2014 6:03 PM in response to YogiHM

Ok so I"ve gotten a bit further, after removing the osx-pl2303.kext files and doing a reboot I notice I get output if the usb to serial is connected while the computer is booting. However once I use it and disconnect it will not work when reconnected.

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Jan 13, 2015 7:36 AM in response to YogiHM

Anyone found a solution to get this working consistently in Yosemite? I am having the same issue where I have to have the cable plugged in when I while booting in order to get it to work, then once I disconnect, I am toast and have to reboot with the cable plugged in again. I followed pretty much the same procedure as Pelonas above, I have been using zTerm. Worked great in Mavericks, but just upgraded to a new rMBP with Yosemite and can't get it working consistently.


Thanks

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Macbook Pro Late 2008 usb to serial cable stops communicating after Yosemite upgrade

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