[NTLK] Newton USB Dongle

[Tony Morrow]

That does look like one of Adriano’s dongles. Found a conversation back in 2009 where someone said it used an FTDI chipset.
<http://marc.info/?l=newtontalk&m=124269912931913&w=2>

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On Jan 19, 2017, at 3:33 PM, Rufus Kohn <rufuskohn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Morgan
> 
> The system profiler does not recognize it at all.I'll try it later on a
> macbook with Lion running.
> 
> 2017-01-19 20:57 GMT+01:00 Morgan Aldridge <morgant at makkintosshu.com>:
> 
>> Was this one of Adriano's adapters?
>> 
>> If you can determine which chipset it uses, you should be able to find OS X
>> drivers for it. I've not used serial adapters beyond the Keyspan ones, so I
>> don't remember the process of determining the chipset, but I'd start by
>> opening System Profiler and looking at what type of device it is shown as
>> in the USB list.
>> 
>> That said, if the drivers aren't signed (Keyspan's are, so they work), El
>> Capitan & Sierra won't load them unless you disable SIP (System Integrity
>> Protection). Disabling SIP is a big security risk, though it's not too
>> difficult, it just requires booting from the Recovery Partition and running
>> a command (El Capitan is actually easier & less insecure as you can just
>> disable the signed kext, read "drivers", requirement without disabling all
>> of SIP, but Sierra is more strict and so requires fully disabling it).
>> 
>> Morgan
>> 
>> On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 14:37 Rufus Kohn <rufuskohn at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Does anybody know if this will work with newton connection kit 2.3 on El
>>> Capitain? The keyspan adaptor works fine but this tiny silver USB dongle
>>> slides in the flat port on next to the serial port on my eMate  300
>>> 
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