Needed
- A serial to USB DCU-11 cable, and a compatible mobile phone.
- A MacOS X PL2303 driver. A free one is available on this page.
- PhoneAgent if you want to transfer files between your computer and your phone.
Setup steps.
- Download PL2303 driver, install it then reboot your computer.
- Plug your DCU-11 cable to the computer and the phone.
- Startup "System Information" (apple menu, "About this Mac", "More infos…"
- In order to check the driver, install then launch "PhoneAgent". Open its preferences menu, and in "Connection" section, you must have (and select) "PL2303-xxxx" in 'Serial Port" drop down list. You may check "Connect at startup" if you want.
- in order to use PhoneAgent, you must connect your phone: plug the DCU-11 cable if it's not already done, then click on the grayed Bluetooth icon on the left of the toolbar. If all is OK, the icon must turn to blue.
Sometimes, the driver is not immediately loaded and you'll have to wait for one ou two minutes after you plug the cable to your computer. If it's still not loaded, you may do that manually:
- Start up "Terminal" application.
- When the prompt is available, load PL2303 driver with the following command line:
sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/osx-pl2303.kext/
You may be asked for your administrator password.
Commentaires
Mille mercis!! I have been trying to get this to work forever, and your link to the PL driver was the last thing I needed.
PopeYou're welcome
Arnaud Boudouhaving trouble laoding "Pl2303" in the terminal application. anyone know what i might be doing wrong?
this is what it says after i put in my password:
pat"kextload: /System/Library/Extensions/osx-pl2303.kext: no such bundle file exists
can't add kernel extension /System/Library/Extensions/osx-pl2303.kext/ (file access/permissions) (run kextload on this kext with -t for diagnostic output)
patrick-jardines-Computer:~ patrickjardine$ sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/osx-pl2303.kext/release-osx-10.3.x/"
Hello pat,
- Which MacOS X version do you use ?
- Did you download and install the corresponding driver package successfully ?
Arnaud BoudouI try to in the trtminal, and it appear this message.
"31nl_bjaelectronics_driver_PL2303 is not compatible with its superclass, 18IOSerialDriverSync superclass changed?
kextload: a link/load error occured for kernel extension /System/Library/Extensions/osx-pl2303.kext/
load failed for extension /System/Library/Extensions/osx-pl2303.kext/
My Mac is OS X 10.3.9, is that any other way to do it?
yeh_chiamAs stated by image disk name, the driver is for MacOS X 10.4 only.
Arnaud Boudou