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Feature #3767

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Alternate USB Serial Cable Drivers for Mac

Added by Jon Bates almost 9 years ago. Updated over 4 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
-
Category:
-
Target version:
-
Start date:
06/22/2016
Due date:
% Done:

0%

Estimated time:
Chirp Version:
daily
Model affected:
(all models)
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Description

I have found another common chipset used on cheap USB to serial cables sold on Amazon for the Baofeng radios. The WinChipHead CH340 series chipset is not compatible with the Prolific 2303 drivers. This chipset will report a Product ID of 0x7523 and a Vendor ID of 0x1a86. A signed driver compatible with Yosemite is available from http://blog.sengotta.net/signed-mac-os-driver-for-winchiphead-ch340-serial-bridge/ as the driver offered on the manufacturer's website (in Chinese) is not signed and requires allowing unsigned kernel extensions, which is a significant security risk on OS X.

I hope this helps others and recommend it be added to the OS X cable page.

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