I’m trying to connect my Mac’s USB port to a Sony Beta SP recorder's Serial Port using a generic USB to Serial adapter which uses the Prolific PL-2303 chip. I’m using the latest Prolific Universal driver, but when I plug in the USB cable I get a message that a ‘new network device has been detected’ and suggesting that I use System Preferences to set it up. But in System Preferences it seems to think the USB to Serial adapter is a modem and is looking for a phone number and other configuration data. Does anyone know how to get it to work as just a serial communication device to my Sony’s serial port? If I get it working I'll be connecting it to an RS232 to RS422 adapter to talk to the Sony port. IMac 20' Aluminium and Mac Pro 2008, Mac OS X (10.6.1) Posted on Feb 28, 2010 4:16 PM. +when I plug in the USB cable I get a message that a ‘new network device has been detected’ and suggesting that I use System Preferences to set it up.

But in System Preferences it seems to think the USB to Serial adapter is a modem and is looking for a phone number and other configuration data.+ That's normal behaviour for a device of this type E., the OS is designed to see a serial connection as a network interface, you can simply ignore this. If the driver you've installed is FCP compatible and working correctly then I believe you should see your adapter as an available device control option in FCP. Mar 1, 2010 4:20 AM. I'll have a go again. It was late last night when I was trying to set it up, so maybe a fresh brain will have more success. I did try to 'Cancel' the network preference window that opened, but got the impression that it would not work unless I did 'something'.

Someone else told me I could cancel that message permanently within System Preferences, so I'll try that too. Yet another bit of advice I got was that I would have to install 'MacPorts' and run something called 'Minicom' to set up the serial parameters. Windows was so simple by comparison As a non-techie (at least in all these software and protocol issues) I'm more than a little confused. Regards Message was edited by: esmonde Mar 1, 2010 4:27 AM.

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