- the hardware
- the usb driver
- the serial driver
Having plugged in (and powered on) the USB serial port device, it will show up as a
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USB device on most operating systems without further action. The standard operating system USB driver can recognize a USB device and display information about it in System Profiler.However a serial driver needs to sit on top of the USB interface to make the device actually behave like a serial port.
There is a further complication in that many products (serial ports or other) might want to implement a USB interface. So that each software driver can identify it's own USB device, every USB device has a Vendor Identifier (VID) and a Product ID (PID).
The VID/PID tend to be unique to each different product so that drivers can identify their own device/product in a system with multiple USB devices (small bespoke devices may violate this guideline). This property of uniqueness means that even two different products both using the same USB serial chipset effectively need different drivers. There doesn't appear to be a usable 'class of device' concept (eg 'Generic Serial Port') even for products using the same chipset. This problem is resolved by a configuration file with each (serial) driver that lists every product (ie every PID/VID combination) that can be used with the specified driver.
Mass produced devices are typically pre-registered in the driver config file, but other products, particularly bespoke devices often won't be in the configuration file, so the serial driver (in this case) won't recognise them as belonging to it. Some device manufacturers don't bother obtaining a personalised vendor ID and just use (in this case) FTDI's vendor ID (0x0403 in hex or 1027 decimal).
Thankfully a text editor and a little courage is all that is required on Linux and Mac to address this problem.
My Environment
- Mac OS X 10.5.8 (Leopard) - Should work same on Tiger, Snow Leopard etc.
- FTDI USB Serial chip (FT2232D) on a Marvell 88F6281 OpenRD Eval Platform
Steps
Step 1 - Look for any existing USB devices
- Make sure the device in question is DISconnected
- Since we probably don't know what the device will be named in /dev we will look for changes.
ls -las /dev > $HOME/dev_off.txt
If you happen to know it will contain say 'usb' (ignoring case) you can do the step visually: ls -las /dev | grep -i usb
Step 2 - Connect the device
Plug in the device with the FTDI chip on it and power up device as required.![Usb Ftdi Drivers For Mac Usb Ftdi Drivers For Mac](/uploads/1/3/3/8/133898188/286718953.jpg)
Step 3 - Look for any new USB devices
- In a terminal window:
ls -las /dev > $HOME/serdev_connected.txt
- Then:
diff $HOME/serdev_off.txt $HOME/dev_connected.txt
- (If you're doing this visually just use
ls -las /dev | grep -i usb
instead of the above lines - Look for any changes, hopefully something with a 'tty' and/or 'usb' in its name.
If you do get a new device appearing then chances are you have the right driver installed and you can STOP here(low-level operating system USB drivers typically don't create entries in /dev for each device attached).
Assuming you're not this lucky (which is probably why you are reading this, continue on with the following steps..
Step 4 - Check Operating System has detected the USB device
- Open System Profiler
- Select Hardware -> USB and look for the device (you may need to expand the USB Device tree).
ioreg
command line or even iosnoop
if you're really stuck. Eg ioreg |grep FTDI
.In my case the new device appears in System Profiler as:
Step 5 - Record the PID and VID
- Note down the Product ID and Vendor ID.
Step 6 - Obtain Driver.
- Go to the vendor's website and download the correct driver for your chip and operating system.
- Example: FTDI and OS X
- Go to FTDI website: http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm
- Find the Mac OS X entry for your chip (FTDI appear to combine all devices in the same driver so it should be easy)
- Download the driver - eg click on the driver version link (version 2.2.14 as at December 2009)
Step 7 - Install the Driver
- Open the dmg and select the right package for your version of Mac OS X.
- Install it.
- At this point the kernel extension (driver) is not loaded - which is good for us.
Step 8 - Maths..
- Convert the PID and VID to decimal.
- Either use the Programmer mode of the desktop Calculator, or
- if you like command line stuff see the box
- or if you're a hacker do it by hand or in your head :-)
Converting number bases on the command line.
- In a terminal window enter:
dc -e '16i XXXX p XXXX p'
- where XXXXs are replaced with the PID and VID as follows:
- first remove the leading ox
- convert any lower case letters to uppercase.
Example:
All this does is convert base 16 into base 10 for each of the two numbers (man dc or man bc if you want to learn more).
So 0x9e90 (hex) is 40592 in decimal and 0x403 is 1027 in decimal.
Step 9 - Look for your product in the driver.
- cd /System/Library/Extensions/FTDIUSBSerialDriver.kext/Contents/
- view the Info.plist file (read only) in a text editor and search the file for for your PID (and VID).
Note that each device is grouped in a section. For the FTDI file each entry in the relevant XML section looks something like:
The key thing to look for in the FTDI file is <dict>'s containing com.FTDI.driver.FTDIUSBSerialDriver as the CFBundleIdentifier.
If you find your device (both VID and PID match and hopefully the Product Title looks something like that shown in System profiler) you can skip straight to Step 11.
Note: you could just try installing the kernel and checking /dev but if it fails you need to unload the driver which can be troublesome in some cases (and may require a reboot).
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Step 10 - Add the new device configuration
Note: If you not comfortable with XML, phone a friend!- open Info.plist in a text editor (preferably read only).
- Select a complete device description such as the example in the previous section. Some may have extra parameters, choose one of the simplest as your template.
- copy and paste it into TextEdit (say).
- Carefully substitute in your device info: description (from System Profiler - doesn't have to be identical AFAIK), VID, PID.
- The description should not contain any XML special characters. If in doubt just avoid non-alphanumeric characters
- sudo bash
- cp Info.plist Info.plist.ORIG (make a backup copy)
- Edit (eg vi) Info.plist (use a text editor only, not a word processor)
- Find the first or last com.FTDI.driver.FTDIUSBSerialDriver dict item
- Add in your entry CAREFULLY.
My case was a little more complex. The FT2232 IC has two serial ports (even though only the 'B' port showed up in System Profiler!, so I needed two entries with subtle differences (note the difference in the description and
bInterfaceNumber
.My FT2232 dual serial port entry
![Usb Usb](/uploads/1/3/3/8/133898188/572776571.jpg)
Step 11 - Load and driver
- Check the kernel extension is not already loaded:
kextstat |grep FTDI
- It should not return anything (ie not currently loaded) If it is you need to unload it or just reboot.
- To unload it:
kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/FTDIUSBSerialDriver.kext
- Note: Unloads do sometimes fail for various reasons not discussed here.. look for 'success' output
- To load it (you need to be root or use
sudo
for this):kextload /System/Library/Extensions/FTDIUSBSerialDriver.kext
- It should say: kextload: FTDIUSBSerialDriver.kext loaded successfully
- Check it's loaded:
kextstat | grep FTDI
should return something similar to (numbers may be different):
Step 12 - Look for new /dev entries
- Make sure your device is plugged in and powered up (as these /dev entries tend to appear and disappear dynamically these days)
In my case I have two serial ports on the chip so:
where FTSDIXOJ is my serial number (or pseudo serial number) and is appended by the port number (A = 0, B = 1) as I have two ports.
Step 12 - Select a port for use
- Now you can use one of the serial port devices for use in kermit/minicom/cu/screen etc.
The FTDI driver provides two devices per port (cu and tty). The difference between them is deeply historical, in short cu was for modems, tty for terminals.
This post has a good explanation: http://lists.apple.com/archives/darwin-dev/2009/Nov/msg00099.html
I suspect they are both effectively identical for most current uses, with cu possibly having the edge even though its name would 'scare' most people off.
If in doubt try both and pick your favourite :-)
Step 13 - Drink a beverage of your choice.
- + : A leading plus sign indicates that this word must be present in every object returned.
- - : A leading minus sign indicates that this word must not be present in any row returned.
- By default (when neither plus nor minus is specified) the word is optional, but the object that contain it will be rated higher.
- < > : These two operators are used to change a word's contribution to the relevance value that is assigned to a row.
- ( ) : Parentheses are used to group words into subexpressions.
- ~ : A leading tilde acts as a negation operator, causing the word's contribution to the object relevance to be negative. It's useful for marking noise words. An object that contains such a word will be rated lower than others, but will not be excluded altogether, as it would be with the - operator.
- * : An asterisk is the truncation operator. Unlike the other operators, it should be appended to the word, not prepended.
- ' : The phrase, that is enclosed in double quotes ', matches only objects that contain this phrase literally, as it was typed.
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Dfi nf4 ultra infinity drivers for mac. I am trying to work with a custom PCB that uses an FTDI FT232RL to talk to my computer (MacBookPro running OSX 10.11 El Capitan) for a hardware project. I am using Matlab to send serial commands, running into some problems there with ClearToSend (CTS) pin apparently 'high' (off), but that's another story.
However my problem right now is that my Mac won't 'release' (not sure what else to call this) the device after I unplug it. I can unplug the device and put it on another USB bus, but I can really only do this once, because the same thing happens again if I unplug -- this makes my development difficult, because the only way I've found to fix this is to restart the whole computer. How can I release/reset/clear these devices?
If I open System Information>Hardware>USB, I can essentially see the same device listed twice on the device tree.
This makes it so that when I try
ls /dev/tty.*
(in either Matlab or Terminal) the device is not listed, it's essentially blocked, even though it's plugged in and shows up twice on the device tree. What should I do?I have installed the version 2.3 FTDI driver, and it seems to work otherwise. Please let me know what other information I can provide to get to the bottom of this. Thanks
thkemp
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4 Answers
I had the same issue, albeit on Sierra, talking to an Arduino Nano clone (which also uses a FTDI FT232RL bridge).
https://newleaders402.weebly.com/blog/sony-photo-printer-driver-for-mac. What seems to have worked for me is actually removing the FTDI driver (
/Library/Extensions/FTDIUSBSerialDriver.kext
), after finding that Apple ships an FTDI driver with the OS itself (/System/Library/Extensions/AppleUSBFTDI.kext
).I think having both drivers active at the same time causes a conflict, which ties up the USB port.
robertkleprobertklep
By: Garrett JohnsonTired of your dev. boards not being recognized on your shiny new macbook? Are you blaming those damn C-ports?PROBLEM: FTDI devices not usable in MacOS High Sierra. In my own case, I was having trouble connecting FT232R chip devices to my 2016 Macbook Pro with C-Ports. The devices appeared in my USB device tree (System Information -> Hardware -> USB), but did not show up as a serial device using Arduino, or Coolterm. - NOTE: they did not appear either when in Terminal with the command (ls /dev/cu*) or (ls /dev/tty*)
SOLUTION:
3) Download the 2.4.2 drivers from FTDI's website http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm and install. The install will succeed, BUT due to Apples built-in FTDI drivers they will not work.
2) Reboot computer and enter recovery mode Via powering down and holding down CMD + R on reboot.
3) In recovery mode open terminal from utilities at the top of the screen and type the following to tempraily disable System Integrity Protection:
csrutil disable
The computer will prompt you to reboot to make changes take effect.
4) On reboot we now need to disable the Apple FTDI drivers (NOTE: this can be reversed at any time so do not worry). - open Terminal and type the following.
sudo mv AppleUSBFTDI.kext AppleUSBFTDI.disabled
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sudo touch /System/Library/Extensions
chgrp -R wheel FTDIUSBSerialDriver.kext
sudo mv D2zzHelper.kext D2xxHelper.disabled
Now you will have successfuly have disabled Apple's built-in FTDI drivers and replaced them with FTDI v2.4.
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5) Restart your computer in recovery mode. Shutdown, hold Command + R and open terminal in the Utilities tab. Enter the following to reenable Apple's System Integrity Protection
csrutil enable
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**NOTE: I have tested this on a 2016 Macbook Pro with MacOS 10.13.3 on the following devices/apps: 1) Screen from within terminal, CoolTerm, Bus Pirate V3.6, JTAGulator, Arduino Uno, Adafruit Mega AT, Arduino Mega clone.
Garrett JohnsonGarrett Johnson
I'd like to provide an additional answer that solves one more piece of the puzzle that I had. Even following Garrett Johnson's excellent answer above, my FTDI driver was still not working. It turned out that - and I know this sounds insane - that my System Preferences 'Security & Privacy' tab was not accepting my trackpad's click on the 'Allow' button that would allow the driver to load. I got down this path after seeing this message in install log:
Of course, I clicked 'Allow' in there, but nothing seemed to happen. The button registered the click, but I didn't have any window pop up or anything else for some form of confirmation. Searching around the Internets, I discovered this lengthy thread on Karabiner's github page discussing several solutions for forcing System Preferences to permit the mouse click:
Apparently I had some software running that was intercepting the trackpad activity. It wasn't chrome in my case, unlike several people on that list. I have no clue what it was, which is a little concerning. The solution that worked for me was to enable Mouse Keys, then push 'I' to click the mouse over the 'Allow' button. At that point, a window popped up, and I was able to permit the FTDI driver to load.
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Mike AndrewsMike Andrews
I had the same problem. I had installed the FTDI drivers via a link from the Creality Ender 3 installation notes, and the link installed version 2.2.18, which is for OS X 10.8 and below. (I'm running Sierra, 10.12). The driver worked, but would not release. I deleted the driver using
sudo rm /System/Library/Extensions/FTDIUSBSerialDriver.kext/
and then downloaded and installed version 2.4.2. All working now.Steve JohnsonSteve Johnson
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