pito Posted August 7, 2007 Share Posted August 7, 2007 Hello All. I'm using Mac OS X on MB Gigabyte P965-DS3, and almost everything works fine. Everything but... no serial port (COM1)! Now I have a problem regarding serial port. I have a special application which uses (home made) thermometer connected to the serial port. This application is programmed for Windows and on Windows works fine. On Linux it works using Wine but on Mac OS X it doesn't works. Is there a possibility to have access on this port? Please write me any possibility: Crossover, VMWare, Parallels or native (I think it's possible to port this app to Java or C++) I need to get it working. I found somewhere here guide with using some "minicom" application but I couldn't get it working. Please If anybody knows how write me. Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/59225-serial-com-port-access-on-hakintosh/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
munky Posted August 7, 2007 Share Posted August 7, 2007 hmm... since no real intel macs (except the xserve (!)) use serial ports, you might have a hard time, unless you can figure out what driver (kext) the xserve uses for its serial port.you might have better luck looking into USB->Serial adapters and supporting software... EDIT:http://www.keyspan.com/downloads/homepage_pn_usa19w.spml http://www.osxhax.com/archives/000006.html some links to help you get started. EDIT2: Try booting into windows and finding device IDs or whatever for your serial port hardware, then have a poke around in /System/Library/Extensions/IOSerialFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns and see if there's anything you can change to match your hw. I'm guessing that since the Intel XServe has a serial port, there must be intel-compiled serial port drivers in there. Whether they'll work for your machine's serial hardware is anybody's guess, but they must be pretty standard, i'd have thought. EDIT3: PlugIns/AppleRS574Serial.kext's Info.plist seems to be saying it matches on AAPL,connector and DB9. Maybe some sort of injection / natit style approach would work? Btw, RS574 is the name given to 9-pin serial connectors (whereas RS232 is 25-pin serial) AAPL,connector DB9 EDIT4: The Info.plist in the AppleSCCSerial.kext plugin seems to have a few more things it can match on in the IO Device tree. GOOD LUCK! http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...aded&start= Have a look here as well - some interesting stuff. Also, my Intel 915 board at home reports that Apple16X50Serial.kext is loaded. Not sure if this means it has recognised my serial port (which is 9-pin). Check to see if your hacky has loaded that kext, or IOSerialFamily.kext. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/59225-serial-com-port-access-on-hakintosh/#findComment-422185 Share on other sites More sharing options...
antst Posted August 7, 2007 Share Posted August 7, 2007 ls /dev/cu.serial* if you get something there - it is your ports. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/59225-serial-com-port-access-on-hakintosh/#findComment-422208 Share on other sites More sharing options...
munky Posted August 7, 2007 Share Posted August 7, 2007 antst: you're right - my box at home reports /dev/cu.serial1 /dev/cu.serial2. nice. @pito: its an EliteCorp (ECS) 915G-M v1.0, Intel 915G chipset. hth. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/59225-serial-com-port-access-on-hakintosh/#findComment-422209 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pito Posted August 8, 2007 Author Share Posted August 8, 2007 antst: you're right - my box at home reports /dev/cu.serial1 /dev/cu.serial2. nice. @pito: its an EliteCorp (ECS) 915G-M v1.0, Intel 915G chipset. hth. I have /dev/cu.serial1 too but how can I access it in Crossover or some virtual machine? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/59225-serial-com-port-access-on-hakintosh/#findComment-422760 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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