Re: RF Explorer isn't recognized by Mac Laptop

[Ariel Rocholl]

Hi Jamie,

Did you install the Silabs drivers? If you didn't please install that first: http://www.silabs.com/Support%20Documents/Software/Mac_OSX_VCP_Driver.zip

Regards. Ariel

On Tuesday, November 6, 2012 12:21:22 AM UTC+1, JamieSound wrote:

RF Explorer isn't recognized by Mac Laptop - 

Setup: Brand new RF Explorer / brand new Macbook pro 2.5g 10.7.5 OSX / iRFE software v1.08

Have tried several brand new USB cables but no matter what I do, iRFE software will NOT recognize the RF Explorer. 

Says "Waiting for connection" / Board <none found> / not connected 

Any idea why my laptop won't see my RF Explorer? 

Thanks

[Dirk-Willem van Gulik]

On 6 Nov 2012, at 15:33, Ariel Rocholl wrote:

> Did you install the Silabs drivers? If you didn't please install that first: http://www.silabs.com/Support%20Documents/Software/Mac_OSX_VCP_Driver.zip

And installed - check that you get a device/file called '/dev/cu.<something>' once the iRFE is powered on. It should disappear if you unplug.

If that fails - fire up Applications->Utilities->Console and check the output for 'RF Explorer' (top right filter field).

Thanks,

DW.

> On Tuesday, November 6, 2012 12:21:22 AM UTC+1, JamieSound wrote:
> RF Explorer isn't recognized by Mac Laptop -
>
> Setup: Brand new RF Explorer / brand new Macbook pro 2.5g 10.7.5 OSX / iRFE software v1.08
>
> Have tried several brand new USB cables but no matter what I do, iRFE software will NOT recognize the RF Explorer.
> Says "Waiting for connection" / Board <none found> / not connected
>
> Any idea why my laptop won't see my RF Explorer?
>
> Thanks
>

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>
>
>

[TimmyP1955]

On Tuesday, November 6, 2012 at 9:33:40 AM UTC-5, Ariel Rocholl wrote:

Hi Jamie,

Did you install the Silabs drivers? If you didn't please install that first: http://www.silabs.com/Support%20Documents/Software/Mac_OSX_VCP_Driver.zip

This driver requires OSX 10.9.  Is there one that will work on 10.7.5?
 

 

[RF Explorer]

The driver is fully compatible with 10.7.x, you should be fine using it. See release notes at http://www.silabs.com/documents/public/release-notes/Mac_OSX_VCP_Driver_Release_Notes.txt 

Known Issues and Limitations
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	This release includes the Macintosh OSX driver for 64 bit Intel 
	Macintosh computers running MacOS X 10.7 or greater.

[TimmyP1955]

When I try to install the driver, it tells me that 10.9 is required and it refuses to go any further.

[RF Explorer]

Please use this link provided by Silicon Labs support to install legacy driver: http://www.silabs.com/Support%20Documents/Software/Mac_OSX_VCP_Driver_10_6.zip 

[TimmyP1955]

I installed the legacy driver with no problem.  However when I open the app, it does not see the RFE hardware, and most of the time it gives me a perpetually spinning beach ball.

[TimmyP1955]

On Saturday, June 10, 2017 at 2:38:14 AM UTC-5, TimmyP1955 wrote:

I installed the legacy driver with no problem.  However when I open the app, it does not see the RFE hardware, and most of the time it gives me a perpetually spinning beach ball.

Tried again.  No more beach ball, but in the lower left it says Board: <none found> , and in the lower right it says Initializing.

I took a look in Console, and RF Explorer never appears.  It shows that the driver loaded successfully, then  it times out after 10 seconds.

This should not be such a PITA.

[Carsten Bormann]

On Jun 13, 2017, at 05:14, TimmyP1955 <Pad...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> This should not be such a PITA.

No (but then you are setting yourself up for pain by using a previous-decade OS).

Next step: Try running “System Information” and see whether the RF Explorer even shows up under “USB”.

Grüße, Carsten