Testing a synthesizer

james collins james.collins75 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 13 16:14:26 EDT 2009


The last four lines from dmesg are:

Wake reason = UHC3
System Wake
Previous Sleep Cause: 0
USB (UHCI):Port 2 on bus 0x5d has remote wakeup from some device

Don't know what the location of USB adaptor is from this? Any help?

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On Aug 13, 2009, at 11:56 AM, "Gene Collins" <collins at gene3.ait.iastate.edu 
 > wrote:

> James, to find the location of your usb addapter, try this.  at a  
> shell
> prompt, after you have disconnected and reconnected your usb to serial
> addapter, type sudo dmesg.  This will display the boot messages on the
> mac, and any disconnect and reconnect messages from the usb system.
> Read the last 3 or four lines of output, and see if you don't see the
> device the serial device has been assigned to.  I'm not a mac user,  
> but
> I have checked, and I know the mac does support the dmesg command,  
> which
> must be run as root.  If the usb device doesn't show up, then you may
> indeed need a driver.  The problem is that some devices need special
> drivers, and others are supported natively by the kernel.  Hope this
> helps.
>
> Gene Collins
>
>> The cable is made by dynex, I actually downloaded a mac driver, but
>> was told I don't need it and that it was for an older operating
>> system. Was also told that there wouldn't be any harm in installing
>> it, but I don't know?
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Aug 13, 2009, at 10:22 AM, Cheryl Homiak <chomiak at charter.net>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> That means you probably do need a driver; did your cable come with a
>>> cd and is there any documentation about installing it on the Mac on
>>> the cd? What manufacturer shows up in System Profiler for your
>>> usbserial? System Profiler is what you were opening when you earlier
>>> described going into your menus and finding it. Also, I assume you
>>> did your ls command with the cable plugged into the Mac.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Cheryl
>>> "Let the words of my mouth,
>>> and the meditation of my heart,
>>> be acceptable in thy sight,
>>> O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer."
>>> (Psalm 19:14  Bible KJV)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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