On 1-Nov-07, at 00:58 , Robert Lipe wrote:
> I've tracked down why DG-100 doesn't work on Mac. It's a bug in
> Prolific's OS/X driver for the chip that the DG-100 uses.
>
> I've provided Globalsat with the full analysis and a test case in the
> hope that they can get Prolific to rev the driver to not corrupt the
> receive data stream if flags in termio (other than cflag, obviously)
> are changed while there is data pending in the receiver FIFO or
> otherwise in flight from the device.
>
>
> This is also the problem that nails the UT-41 in NMEA mode.
>
> We could conceivably code around this, but I'd like to give them a
> chance to fix the real problem first.
FYI There is an open source implementation of the driver, avalable here:
http://osx-pl2303.sourceforge.net/Andre
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