Hi Barry, What is the Program? Is this the 'Weather Display for Mac'? If so it should have something similar to this: In WeatherDisplay / control Panel / COM Port There's a USB to Serial name box set to /dev/tty.SLAB_USBtoUART.
Cheers, Ronni 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.7.4 Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 30/08/2012, at 12:58 PM, Barry Sexstone <bjsexst...@netspace.net.au> wrote: > G'Day All > > I am investigating a program which collects and displays weather data from a > weather station. The supplier says that the connection needs to be through a > "UART" USB Port and not a "Bluetooth"port as he seems to think mine are. He > says that in the "other" operating system it is possible to change a port > using the control panel but he has no idea about doing this with a Mac. > Does anyone have any ideas how I can change the properties of a USB port or > am I stuck with the Bluetooth system? > I can run the connection on an earlier Mac running 10.5 but not on this one > running 10.7 > Is this something lost with Lion as was the Rosetta capability? > > Thanks for any advice. > > Barry -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
