NewtonTalk.net September 2008 archive: Re: [NTLK] Does Belkin Se

From: Mr Jonathan Dueck <jonathandueck_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri Sep 26 2008 - 16:55:20 EDT

Hi, Carlos,

Yup, you're right! The compiled driver is from 2003. But the link I gave in my previous reply is to a fellow who shows how to recompile the driver for Leopard on an Intel Mac, patched and updated--I tried it and the driver appears to load OK on my Mac.

However, the serial port doesn't show up in NCX, which is a bit of a bummer. It might, however, work in Shapeshifter or Basilisk, which I haven't tried.

In any case, though, if you want to try the driver, just follow the instructions in my email and on the blog I linked to patch and recompile the driver--that part worked fine for me when I tried it, and it appears to result in a Leopard-compatible driver.

-Jon

----- Original Message ----
From: Carlos Pessoa Filho <carlos.pf@mac.com>
To: newtontalk@newtontalk.net
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 4:22:01 PM
Subject: Re: [NTLK] Does Belkin Serial Adapter work on Leopard?

>
Thanks Gareth and Jonathan!

After reading your replies I found this link that contains a driver
for MacOS X, but it was written in 2003... Not sure if it will work
on Leopard..., I am waiting for my Serial Cable that I bought on ebay
to arrive to test it., I am so frustrated of not getting my newton
synching to my mac... But I won't give up easily. My last alternative
will rescue an old iBook clamshell that I have in Brazil (I am
currently in NY) and use it solely to sync my Newton to a desktop
computer.

Best regards,
Carlos

> On Sep 24, 2008, at 11:14 AM, Gareth Jan Wells wrote:
>
>> Hello Carlos
>>
>> I had the same adapter (well the plain Jane PC version, but generally
>> the same device) and in my search for drivers, I found one on
>> Sourceforge that allegedly worked under OS X (OS 10.2 or 10.3?),
>> although that was prior to Leopard's release. No idea if it would
>> work
>> in 10.5
>>
>> There were a few issues with the driver (ie it it needed some
>> tweaking
>> to work), but whoever wrote it may actually have got round to
>> addressing
>> these problems. I couldn't get them to work myself, but I found
>> instructions on how to tweak the code on the web (a guy's blog
>> actually): unfortunately I have lost the details. Have you tried
>> googling Belkin Serial USB adapter?
>>
>> Alternatively, the Belkin drivers work in OS 9 (so if you have an
>> OS 9
>> emulator, it might work...) but as far as I know they never
>> released as
>> OS X version. Worked fine in OS 9.
>>
>> Good luck!
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Gareth Wells
>>
>>

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