Sorry we can’t provide more info here- I’d try and test on a lab mac but we don’t have any of the counterfeit cables lying around, only ours, the ones we know work 😉If you have one of the counterfeit cables and find that these instructions don’t work, please post back for the benefit of all.Again, thanks for posting with your question.Best wishes-Jeff.Bernie Thompson. Indeed we can confirm that on Windows, there is code to check and prevent the Prolific driver from working with a counterfeit chip.As far as we know the check is only built into the Windows driver, we’re not certain if this is the same for OS X. Hi Denis-Thanks for posting with your question. Its just not worth wasting time putting in drivers to have to fight them out again when prolific deliberately make them to not work.Bah humbug prolific, not fair to cause issues for consumers when they should target the clone chip manufacturers directly!.Jeff Everett. I wonder if anybody knows if there is any issues with the commonly available usb to serial cables that are so commonly purchased unwittingly that are a clone of the official pl2303.Prolific seem to be deliberately isolating compatibility against these devices in the newest Windows drivers, and wondered if thats the same with the mac drivers. Several are mentioned in the stack overflow thread.Hugo.
Once connected click on the Apple icon and on ‘About This Mac’Click on ‘More Info’Click on ‘USB’ on the left and on the ‘USB-Serial Controller D’If all is well you should be seeing something like this:Time to get the driver! Hi Sam, we’re glad to hear you found our article helpful!Getting scrolling in screen working is a little different depending on which version of osX you’re running and requires editing screenrc, unfortunately not a single command for this that I know of.Here is the best thread I’ve found on enabling screen scrollback (and more):Here’s another thread from stack overflow that talks about some options to enable scrollback in screen:A lot of people also prefer alternative terminals like Zterm, iTerm 2, etc. If you want to verify that the adapter and the driver were installed properly clickConnect the device to the Mac.
The easiest way to go about installing our is by starting with the device.
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