CH340/CH341 USB to serial MAC OS driver Oct 29, 2019, 11:22 pm I've read the other threads suggesting to download the CH341SERMACZIP driver in order to get the newer Mac's with USB C to work with the IDE. Solved for me updating the driver (Use the one below): Mac OS X 10.9 and above This driver is signed by Apple. USB to serial driver for Mac OSX (10.14.6) Mojave. I’m trying to connect my Mac’s USB port to a Sony Beta SP recorder's Serial Port using a generic USB to Serial adapter which uses the Prolific PL-2303 chip. I’m using the latest Prolific Universal driver, but when I plug in the USB cable I get a message that a ‘new network device has been detected’ and suggesting that I use System. Earlier versions of Mac OS X did not support FTDI drivers, so users would have to install third-party FTDI drivers. Somewhere around the release of macOS 10.12 Sierra (and maybe earlier), native support for FTDI drivers was included. So, if you have followed an upgrade path from an older version of the OS without native FTDI support to a new. We take care of all the tricky macOS and USB Serial chips for you. Started in 2006 as an open source project to enable Atmel AVR programming for OS X, helping thousands of users. We now offer well maintained drivers for the CP2102, CH341 and PL2303 chips. The drivers are built on years of driver programming experience and customer feedback.
I’m on Mavericks (10.9.5) and fighting with a USB device with a “FT232R” chip (from FTDI) for USB to serial conversion.
It was not accessible in OS X (e.g. QuickTerm didn’t list it, only the Bluetooth Port + Modem).
Mac Os Serial Port
Using an old Windows (in a Parallels VM on the same Mac) I could (and still can) access the device, switch it back and forth between OS X and Win, and send commands to it using a terminal SW.
In OS X it seems to be unknown, however, the USB Device Tree reports the FT232R USB UART correctly with Product ID and Vendor ID from FTDI.
Usb To Serial Driver For Mac Os 10.10
But I want to get rid of the Win (VM) solution and installed the FTDI driver for Mac, didn’t work.
I have also disabled (renamed) the AppleUSBFTDI.kext, restarted and installed the FTDI driver (version 2.3, signed by Apple). The installer always tells me “success” but I still can’t see the driver /System/Library/Extensions/FTDIUSBSerialDriver.kext (should it be there?) and the device isn’t accessible from OS X.
I’ve tried again and again, there is no FTDI or USBSerial device listed in /dev when I plug it in or switch it back from Win - I guess because the (OS X) driver isn’t correctly installed?
Could someone help, please?
(I have little knowledge in OS X)
iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5), USB serial adapter FTDI (FT232R)