usb driver problem

[Thomas McGrath III]

I tried in terminal to do a screen /dev/cu.usbmodem1a21 and it worked. control a & control \ to stop and close port (I think)


I don't know enough about shell to come up with a good script to try out here in LC.

Any ideas?

Thanks

-- Tom McGrath III
http://lazyriver.on-rev.com
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On Jan 17, 2011, at 1:06 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> On 1/16/11 10:37 PM, Thomas McGrath III wrote:
>> The dev/tty.usbmodem1a21 does not show up in the list using the
>> SerialTest.rev stack.
>> 
>> It does show up in the Arduino software Serial list. Also in the
>> Arduino you have to use the tty.usbmodem1a21. Also when you plug the
>> Arduino in the Mac detects a new modem and asks to set it up in
>> Internet preferences pane. hit apply and then it shows up in
>> Arduino.
> 
> If the Mac thinks it's a modem, I'd try using "open file" as Mark Waddingham suggested. Specify "modem:" and set the serialControlString. He did mention that the drivernames aren't always accurate on OS X.
> 
> If that doesn't work, use "open file" with the "/dev/" path. I'm not sure which path would work, I guess you'd need to test them all. Basically the one that works in Terminal should work in LiveCode.
> 
> Did you try talking to it in Terminal? Does that work?
> 
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