Ten-Tec Omni-VII uses a baud rate of 57600. You can obviously change the baud rate or any other options to what you need to connect to your specific device. So in the same terminal window, simply type:
We simply use the built-in screen program on Mac OS. Most people will use a Terminal Emulator, but as most of these programs were built pre-Leopard, you may find some difficulties running them on new(er) Mac hardware. Now that we have identified our new serial device, we can start connecting to a radio. Type the following:įind the entry that is referring to your cable. Start a terminal session and list all available serial (or tty) devices available. Mac OS X will automatically create a serial device, which can be found in /dev. We recommend you download the open source driver.Īfter you have installed the driver, connect your cable to any of your free USB ports.
The driver for the cable can be downloaded from the Prolific website, however we have found an open source driver, which does the job and more over gives some better performance.
