Open driver?

[Jean-Jacques Wagner]

Hi,
Open Driver -> can't open file

Well did you advance in solving your question? I am also stopped with the
same problem on a i-mac wanting to access a FTDI-device throught one of the
USB port.

Thanks for your help

Jean-Jacques Wagner

> Has anyone had any success with the "open driver" command on a Mac
> (OS 9.2)? I want to read data from the USB port and it certainly
> looks like the open driver command is what I want. However,  what are
> the drivers? Where are they? The docs make it sound like I can just
> call them by name (i.e. no mucking about with paths) but none of the
> files in my Extensions folder will open, even those that have
> "driver" in their names. Any file I name in the open driver command
> returns the "Can't open that file" message.
> 
> Specifically I would like to read data from my Griffin iMic USB
> adaptor. It doesn't come with any drivers, but uses the built in
> Audio Manager and the "Sound" control panel. I assume that the Audio
> manager is a driver and that I should be able to read from it with
> the driver commands. That doesn't seem to be the case.
> 
> I have fiddled a bit with OS X because the docs say that "On OS X and
> Unix systems, you can obtain a list of available devices by reading
> the file "/dev/tty"." but I can't find such a file, or even a "dev/"
> directory. Any additional info would be helpful because I feel a bit
> lost.