Introduction In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to install drivers on multiple operating systems. Although this tutorial was written using Windows 7, Mac OS X 10.6, and Ubuntu 13.04, the process should be very similar, if not exactly the same, for other versions/variations of these operating systems. Suggested Reading Before you begin this tutorial, you should have the Arduino IDE installed on your computer. Check out our tutorial for a step by step guide. Here are some other tutorials and concepts you may want to familiarize yourself with before reading this tutorial:.

1. Mm232r Usb Module Drivers For Mac Windows 10

Jan 8, 2018 - Learn about connecting USB devices to your Mac. Contact the manufacturer of your virtualization software for more information. Results 76 - 100 of 1056 - FTDI MM232R DEV MODULE, USB TO SERIAL, UART. Which can be used for testing the functionality of the FT232R device and drivers prior to design in. Supports Windows XP/Vista/7/8, Linux and Mac OS X.

Alright, let’s get to work! You can visit the next section to learn more about the FTDI Basic and why you need the FTDI drivers, or you can skip straight to the operating system of your choice! If you are using a 5 volt device, you will need the 5 volt FTDI. If you have a 3.3 volt device, you guessed it, use a 3.3 volt FTDI. LilyPad boards all operate on 3.3V. We also carry a complete for the FT232RL should you need access to more pins than the FTDI Basic provides. Here is a list of some SparkFun products that require the use of an FTDI Basic, come with an FTDI Basic, or have an FT232RL chip on board:.

and. and. and. There are also some legacy Arduino boards that use the FT232RL. The Arduino Diecimila and Duemilanove main boards along with the original Arduino Mega all use the FT232RL IC.

If you have one of these older versions, you’ll want to use the FDTI drivers as well. For a complete list of all Arduino boards,.

Newer versions of Arduino boards, such as the Uno, use a different communication IC, and they will not be covered in this tutorial. Now that you know why the FTDI Basic is important and what products it is used for, let’s learn how to install the drivers. Note for Educators: You will most likely need to obtain administrative privileges from your network or IT administrator in order to install these drivers. By default, windows does not have FTDI drivers installed. If you plug in your FTDI, open the Arduino IDE, go to ‘Tools - Serial Ports’, and see nothing, you need the drivers! Let’s go get them!. Download a copy of the v2.12.28 FTDI VCP Driver Executable here: Otherwise, visit for the latest download of the Windows FTDI Driver executable and clicking on the Window’s “Available as a setup executable” link.

Make sure to unzip the executable before proceeding to the next step. Choose ‘Run’ once it is has finished downloading, or find the file you just downloaded “CDM21228Setup.exe” and double-click it to run it. Note for Educators: You will most likely need to obtain administrative privileges from your network or IT administrator in order to install these drivers. Plug in your FTDI using a USB cable.

Windows doesn’t have the correct drivers, so let’s find them!. Navigate to the, and choose the ‘VCP’ (Virtual Com Port) option near the bottom. Now choose either the 32 bit version or the 64 bit version. Not sure which you have? The next steps will go over how to find that information.

If you already know which version you are running, you may skip the next two steps. Open the start menu, right-click on ‘Computer,’ and left-click on ‘Properties’.

Look under ‘System type,’ to see which version you have. Now go back to the FTDI site, right-click on the correct version, and save it to your computer. Remember where the files are saved. We’ll need them in the next step. Navigate to the folder containing the files. They will be inside of a.zip file, so you’ll need to extract them.

Right-Click on the.zip file, and choose ‘Extract All’ When the next window appears, as shown above, pay attention to where it is extracting the files. Make sure that ‘Show extracted files when complete’ is checked, and click ‘Extract’. When the extraction is complete, the folder is opened.

Again, take note of this folder location. This is the one containing the drivers. We’re almost there!

Open the start menu, right-click on ‘Computer’, and left-click on ‘Manage’. You will need administrator rights to do this. If you aren’t an administrator on your computer, talk to the person who is and have them enter their credentials.

Left-click on ‘Device Manager’ in the leftmost column. Here is where we see the offending hardware.

It has an exclamation mark next to it. Right-click on ‘FT232R USB UART,’ and left-click ‘Update Driver Software’.

Now choose ‘Browse my computer for driver software’. Left-click ‘Browse,’ and navigate to the location of the extracted files.

Choose the extracted folder. There is no need to search any further in the folder. Then left-click ‘OK’.

Make sure ‘Include subfolders’ is checked (very important!), and left-click ‘Next’. After a moment, you will see a success message!

Left-click ‘Close’. The Device Manager page will refresh and you will see a new item with an exclamation mark named ‘USB Serial Port’. You will need to install a second driver for the same device.

Follow the steps 1-15, as before, and use the same driver folder too!. Once those steps are complete, you will see another success message! Left-click ‘Close’. The Device Manager Page will refresh again and show ‘USB Serial Port (COMxx),’ where xx = some number. Congratulations, you now have the proper FTDI drivers and can begin to use your device!

Note: If you have more than one FTDI device plugged in to your computer at the same time, all of the devices will show up in the Arduino IDE's Serial Port menu and device manager. To figure out which device is which, look under the Arduino IDE's 'Serial Port' menu. Take note of the names of each device. Then unplug the device you want to use.

Go back to the 'Serial Port' menu. The device you unplugged should no longer be listed. That is the device you want. Plug it back in, and select the device that has now reappeared. You can determine what COM port an FTDI device enumerated to by opening the device manager and browsing the 'Ports (COM & LPT)' tree. Note: You will most likely need to obtain administrative privileges from your network or IT administrator in order to install these drivers.

Plug in the FTDI device to a USB cable. When you download the Arduino IDE in Linux, the download comes with the FTDI drivers bundled with the IDE. However, if you just open Arduino from the desktop, you’ll notice that, if you click on ‘Tools’, the ‘Serial Port’ option is grayed out.

Linux includes the drivers necessary to use Arduino, and no additional install is needed. However, permissions might need to be configured. For current instructions on how to set up these permissions, visit. An alternative method is to run Arduino as root in the terminal with the following command: sudo arduino However, this method is encouraged only if you know what you are doing and should only be used as a last resort. You will also need to enter your administrative password to run as root. Arduino should open, and this time the ‘Serial Port’ menu is available.

The FTDI device will show up under this menu. It should be named /dev/ttyUSB0. The number may vary depending on how many USB devices you have plugged into your computer. Note for Educators: You will most likely need to obtain administrative privileges from your network or IT administrator in order to install these drivers.

Most of the time, when you install Arduino on Mac OS X, the drivers are installed automatically. However, if there was a problem with the installation and you don’t see any options that include ‘usbserial’ under the ‘Tools - Serial Port’ menu, then you will need to install the drivers. You may also need to install the full FTDI drivers if you are running OSX 10.10 or later.

The factory drivers are not complete. a.) OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) or above: Download Locate the file FTDIUSBSerialDriverv24.2.dmg file that was downloaded to your computer, and double click on it to open run it. You may need to visit page for the latest download of the Mac OS X FTDI Driver. Click on the link for the “Mac OS X 10.9 and above” driver’s version.

The image below shows version 2.4.2 so you would need to click on.2.4.2 to download the latest driver. If there is an update to the drivers by FTDI, the version number will change but it should be in the same location on the table. B.) OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) or lower: Download Locate the file FTDIUSBSerialDriverv2218.dmg file that was downloaded to your computer, and double click on it to open run it. If you are using the driver for OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) or older, you will see two files. Open up the driver file that corresponds with your operating system. For most users, it will be the second file.

Note: If you have more than one FTDI device plugged in to your computer at the same time, all of the devices will show up in the Arduino IDE's Serial Port menu and device manager. To figure out which device is which, look under the Arduino IDE's 'Serial Port' menu. Take note of the names of each device. Then unplug the device you want to use. Go back to the 'Serial Port' menu. The device you unplugged should no longer be listed. That is the device you want.

Plug it back in, and select the device that has now reappeared. You can determine what COM port an FTDI device enumerated to by opening the Mac OS X's 'System Information' in Lion or later (or 'System Profiler' in Snow Leopard and earlier versions of Mac OS).

This is similar to the device manager used on Windows OS. Browse the Hardware USB tree to determine what COM port the FTDI enumerated on. On newer versions of OS X, when you double-click the install packages inside the FTDI disk image, you may be presented with a very Windows-esque type error about not being able to open the files because they are not from an identified developers.

This is very similar to the. Quick Fix To get around this, simply right-click the package you want to install, or press CTRL + click, if you don’t have a right-click. Then select open from the menu. You will then be given another window asking if you are certain. Click Open, and proceed with the installation as stated above. In-Depth Fix For a more permanent fix, you can follow these instructions. However, this method is not suggested as it leaves your computer vulnerable.

Open your System Preferences. Once open, click the Security & Privacy icon. Under the General tab, you should see a section about allowing the running of downloaded applications from specific sources.

In preveious version of OS X, the defualt was set to Anywhere. However, the defualt setting is now Mac App Store and identified developers. To use the FTDI drivers, you’ll need to set this back to Anywhere. First, you may need to click on the little lock icon and enter your admin password to make these changes. Note for Educators: You may need to get you network administrator to come and unlock the computer in order to install these drivers.

Once unlocked, click the Anywhere option. Another obnoxious window may appear asking you if you’re sure you want to allow this. Click Allow from Anywhere. Or, you can follow the directions in this window, if you don’t want to make your Mac “less secure.” You should now be able to install the FTDI drivers. With Mac OS 10.9 (Mavericks) and later, Apple has built their own version of the FTDI VCP driver into the operating system (AN134). However, there seems to be some conflict between drivers from FTDIchip.com and the ones inherent to Apple.

Luckily, there is a solution to this problem, and it comes from FTDI directly. Quick Fix If you are trying to use the FTDI VCP Driver in your applications, it will not work due to a conflict between the VCP and D2XX drivers. In order to get around this, the Apple supplied Driver must be uninstalled.

Plug in the FTDI device in question, and type the following command in a Terminal window: sudo kextunload –b com.apple.driver.AppleUSBFTDI In-Depth Fix If the above doesn’t work, you may have better luck using this script from FTDI. Clicking on this file will bring up the Script Editor on all Macs. The script can be run by clicking on the run icon (black triangle). Again, make sure your FTDI device is connected. You can make this script into a clickable icon by exporting the script as an application. In the Script Editor, select Export from the File pull down menu: In the Export dialog, select Application as the File Format. You can choose any name for the application.

You should now have an automated Apple Script icon to use on your Mac. With the Apple supplied Drivers uninstalled, you may return to the top of this section and install the FTDI VCP Driver as needed. Repeat this process for any other FTDI devices you are using. You may need to repeat this every time you restart your computer. If you receive this error, it means that the driver has been uninstalled already, and you will need to install the FTDI VCP Driver, as stated above.

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For more information about the drivers, check out the resources below:. In-depth guides to install an FTDI for any OS. The latest VCP Drivers found on FTDI’s website.

A condensed version of our “How to Install FTDI Drivers” tutorial. Check out these tutorials to dive even deeper into the world of microcontrollers!. How do I install a custom Arduino library?.

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The easiest way to go about installing our is by starting with the device. If you want to verify that the adapter and the driver were installed properly click Connect the device to the Mac.

Once connected click on the Apple icon and on ‘About This Mac’ Click on ‘More Info’ Click on ‘USB’ on the left and on the ‘USB-Serial Controller D’ If all is well you should be seeing something like this: Time to get the driver! Fire up Safari and browse to and scroll down to Mac. Click on the ‘PL2303 MacOSX10.6 dmg v.1.4.0.zip’, the Safari Downloads window should come up: Double click on the mdPL23-3MacOSX10 Now double click on the PL23031.4.0.dmg to mount the image Now double click on the PL23031.4.0 to start the installation Once the installer comes up click ‘Continue’ to proceed.

Then ‘Select a Destination’ click on your desired drive and click ‘Continue’ to move forward Now just click ‘Install’ to continue. You may be asked of your username and password – enter them and click ‘OK’ You’ll get a warning about restarting the computer after the installation is complete. This is normal, click ‘Continue Installation‘. Installing should start (takes a couple of minutes to complete) When it’s done you should see this: Click on ‘Restart’ to reboot the Mac. After you restart, check that everything has installed OK. On the Mac there are two methods to determine this: Method 1: Click on ‘Applications’ Click on ‘Utilities’ Click on ‘Terminal’ Type: kextstat grep prolific and: ioreg -c IOSerialBSDClient grep usb Your results should be very close to this: Method 2: Click on ‘System Preferences’ Click on ‘Network’ Now click on the ‘+’ sign on the bottom left, and then on the ‘Select the interface and enter a name for the new Service’ click on ‘Interface’ – you should be seeing the ‘USB-Serial Controller D’ there.

This will create a “Network” interface for a modem or serial port. Because it’s a serial port, it’ll say “Not Configured” and that’s normal: From the “Advanced” button you can change default settings (usually not needed). And this won’t change the “Not Configured” message – that’s still ok. Now finally, you need an application which will talk to the serial port. On Mac, the file which maps to the port is /dev/cu.usbserial.

If you have a null modem cable and a terminal program on the other side, the Mac actually has a built-in terminal program called “screen” that you can use to test the connection. Once that is up and connected (and if the serial ports are set to the same baud rate and paramters), you can type on either side and see the characters come across. Support USB Serial on the Mac is a real melding of the very new and very old.

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Hi Sam, we’re glad to hear you found our article helpful! Getting scrolling in screen working is a little different depending on which version of osX you’re running and requires editing screenrc, unfortunately not a single command for this that I know of.

Here is the best thread I’ve found on enabling screen scrollback (and more): Here’s another thread from stack overflow that talks about some options to enable scrollback in screen: A lot of people also prefer alternative terminals like Zterm, iTerm 2, etc. Several are mentioned in the stack overflow thread. Hi, Loaded it all up fine, however my main purpose was that so I can telnet to devices on the serial port. My question is running the telnet what would I put after the telnet command to identify the port, at the moment I have unknown-00-26-08-f5-af-f4: chrismccann$ kextstat grep prolific 85 0 0x58412000 0x8000 0x7000 com.prolific.driver.PL2303 (2.0.0) unknown-00-26-08-f5-af-f4: chrismccann$ ioreg -c IOSerialBSDClient grep usb “IOTTYBaseName” = “usbserial” “IOCalloutDevice” = “/dev/cu.usbserial” “IODialinDevice” = “/dev/tty.usbserial” “IOTTYDevice” = “usbserial” typically telnet com1 or an IP is put in, but for this device what would I use. Many thanks, Chris.

I wonder if anybody knows if there is any issues with the commonly available usb to serial cables that are so commonly purchased unwittingly that are a clone of the official pl2303. Prolific seem to be deliberately isolating compatibility against these devices in the newest Windows drivers, and wondered if thats the same with the mac drivers. Its just not worth wasting time putting in drivers to have to fight them out again when prolific deliberately make them to not work. Bah humbug @ prolific, not fair to cause issues for consumers when they should target the clone chip manufacturers directly!. Jeff Everett.

Hi Denis- Thanks for posting with your question. Indeed we can confirm that on Windows, there is code to check and prevent the Prolific driver from working with a counterfeit chip. As far as we know the check is only built into the Windows driver, we’re not certain if this is the same for OS X. Sorry we can’t provide more info here- I’d try and test on a lab mac but we don’t have any of the counterfeit cables lying around, only ours, the ones we know work 😉 If you have one of the counterfeit cables and find that these instructions don’t work, please post back for the benefit of all. Again, thanks for posting with your question. Best wishes- Jeff. Bernie Thompson.

Hi Frustrated- The short answer here is that you’ll need to make sure you’re properly terminating any applications or connections using the USB serial device to avoid this issue. We’ve actually seen this across platforms (Windows as well) and are communicating the issue back to Prolific, however in the meantime carefully exiting out of applications and killing processes where needed is your best workaround in the meantime. Here’s a more detailed explanation as to why: Best wishes- Jeff Everett MCITP Enterprise Support Tech Plugable Technologies. Alex. After following these directions, and the install of the PL23031.4.0 appearing to be successful, I do not see the USB serial monitor option anywhere. Whether I look on system preferences under network or in terminal. In system preferences/netowrk, when I attempt to add a something, there is no USB option as indicated on this page.

In Terminal, all I see is /dev/tty.Bluetooth-Modem /dev/tty.usbmodemfa141 /dev/tty.Bluetooth-PDA-Sync I believe the usb/tty.usbmodemfa141 is the Arduino USB driver I previously installed. But I never see a USBserial device or driver. I have an Xbee module and Xbee adaptor connected to the computer via a USB cable.

This is on a Macbook Pro running 10.6.8 also using CoolTerm I never see the USBserial option, only the USBmodem141 option. Thans very much for any help, I’ve been struggling with connecting to these Xbee modules for a few weeks now.

Jordan. Jeff Everett.

Hi Jordan (and any others who might be reading this)- One reason our instructions would not work is if you have purchased an FTDI chipset based USB Serial Device. Another common reason for the symptoms you describe would be trying to add the USB Serial Device to network connections when the cable isn’t connected to the system. If the Prolific Driver installer works without an error, then the commands below should return values similar to those listed above when run with the adapter connected: kextstat grep prolific and: ioreg -c IOSerialBSDClient grep usb If you are not seeing the expected output from these commands, please verify that your adapter matches the 3rd photo in our post, showing the entry in system profile: If your adapter does not match this entry, our instructions unfortunately will not be relevant for your adapter. If these instructions don’t work, please email with your Amazon order ID for further support. Best wishes- Jeff. Pacman. I’m trying to use a PL2303 USB-to-Serial cable with my Olimex SAM7-P256 board.

I have the Prolific driver installed, and the device is recognized and appears as /dev/cu.usbserial The board has a standard RS232 port. It seems that no matter what I do, I get ‘gibberish’ characters. I’ve calculated the baudrate several times, it should be close to 9600 baud (9595) on the microcontroller. On my PowerMac G5, I tried using the network control panel to change the baud-rate, but no matter which rate I select, there is no change in the gibberish characters.

The characters.only. changes when I change the baudrate on my microcontroller board, not on the computer. I also tried using cu –parity=none -s 9600 -l /dev/cu.usbserial dir -But I still don’t see the characters I’m sending from the microcontroller. Which end really controls the baud-rate, the one at the RS232 plug end or the one at the USB-plug end? I am sure I can’t help you, because I gave up on my microcontroller communication, but I’d like to tell you what I would try (if you haven’t tried it already): 1: Try unplugging your USB-to-Serial adapter.

2: Open the terminal, type (without the $): $ ls /dev grep usbserial 3: You should see nothing after the above line, now plug in your USB-to-Serial adapter, then type $ ls /dev grep usbserial You should see ‘cu.usbserial’ and ‘tty.usbserial’. If you see those two device names, I believe you should contact the manufacturer of the UPS. If you do not see the two device names, your USB-to-Serial adapter might be defective. Try verifying on a friends computer. OK, let’s assume you see the two device names. Open your “System Preferences”, then click your “USB-Serial Controller D” (or whatever it’s called), click the - button in the bottom of the panel (to remove it!), click “Apply” and quit System Preferences.

Try your UPS software again and see if it works now. You’ve come a long way already. It seems your USB-to-Serial adapter is working. Did you also try removing the interface in the System Preferences? Why would you want to do that? Answer: Because exactly this might conflict with the UPS software. If it still doesn’t work, add it back in, also try configuring the baudrate to 9600 baud.

Another thing: Try asking the UPS vendor if the name of the serial port is important. You verify that your USB-to-Serial adapter works by connecting either a modem or another computer via a null-modem cable (eg. A cable where only GND is connected and Rx is connected to Tx and Tx is connected to Rx; that’s all that’s necessary). Then open a terminal window on your Mac OS X machine and type $ cat /dev/cu.usbserial If you’ve connected another Mac OS X machine with another USB-to-Serial adapter, you can type $ echo “Hello” /dev/cu.usbserial Then the text should appear in the ‘cat’ window. You could also run for a ‘terminal program’ (I think PuTTY will work) on a PC and configure it to 9600 baud, 8N1.

Or if you have an easier way, just use that; eg. If you have an old 9600 baud Hayes modem, it would be fine for such tests.Hmm I actually have an old Hayes modem here, I could go and see if it works with my adapter. =) Also try and look in your manual for the UPS and read what it says about compatibility on the RS232 port. The vendor might have the manual available as a PDF download.

I just searched the Web and it seems I’ve found their site. Try this page: -There are 3 interesting links: Product Information, Support and Service, “Customer Issues Department” and “Request technical assistance on product(s) already in use”. Perhaps the first one or the last one is most relevant. I’m not sure I can come up with other ideas, but perhaps someone else reading this might have a few suggestions. Thanks so much for all your input. I’ve tried everything. The interface wasn’t in the System Preferences to begin with so I added it and used different configurations, I also assigned the baudrate to 9600 baud, but still won’t detect there is an ‘Auto-search for UPS’ feature in the software of the UPS and this shows up in the terminal: “Broadcast Message from (no tty) at 23:21 EST UPS Monitoring Software Message: Communication Lost: check connection and port setting.

” It can’t detect the tty So i guess the UPS doesn’t support the adapter? I think there’s no problem with the UPS hardware. RS232 is RS232; it’s the same all over the World with all devices; fortunately it’s not messed up like most other standards. 😉 -But the problem is with the software. Having written software for a PL2303 device myself, I know that there are a few things to do, to write the software properly. One thing.not.

to do when writing software, is to use ‘/dev/somename’, because this changes like the weather; different device, different name. There might be one more thing left to try If you right-click on your software application, you’ll see the “Show Package Contents” in the contextual menu. Choose this menu item. You’ll now see a folder called “Contents”, open it.

In this folder, there might be more than one interesting file. You’ll have to do a bit of hunting yourself, but one thing I can suggest, is that you try dragging “Info.plist” onto your TextEdit application and look at the contents. Try and see if you can find a name of a serial port in there. If there’s nothing interesting in that file, try looking inside the “Resources” folder. Files ending in.plist are usually the places where the developer would store such things, which could be tweaked or changed without re-compiling the application. From the terminal, you can also trying CD’ing to the application’s Contents folder and do a $ grep -R -i “serial”.

if nothnig found, try “tty” instead of serial. Still nothing?

-try “rs232” or “uart” or “usart”. (Just a thought: I find it a bit weird, if the UPS vendor writes sofware to communicate with the UPS via RS232 and the same vendor does not mention anything at all about compatibility or how to actually connect the UPS in the manual – because why then use several months/years on writing the software? -But I guess some companies want to be strange.). James. Thanks for posting! The USB serial adapter is not working with the current version of OSX 10.11, as you have discovered.

El Capitan is still very much in development, and it is normal at this stage for drivers to not work, then start working again as Apple addresses various functions in each new release. Apple doesn’t give much information to third party developers that allow them to understand the changes Apple is making, and often we can’t know for sure until the final release version is made available shortly before the public release what, if any, driver changes will be needed. If the driver doesn’t work in the final version, we will immediately begin looking for work-arounds while working with the chip maker, Prolific to develop a driver that does work. I’m sorry I can’t be more helpful, but as long as El Capitan is in beta, we won’t be able to guarantee support for it. The enemy is called SIP. A newly integrated feature which does in fact prevents any unsigned KEXT to be loaded. This means the Profilic driver is shown in the system overview but does in fact have no KEXT loaded to make this thing work.

I’ve found a workaround which is kinda annoying and does in fact work only as long as you don’t plug any other USB devices into the port after getting the adapter to work. This means: If you use the routine i’ll describe in a few moments you have to be aware that after you plug any other USB device into the port you’re using the profilic with you have to REDO all these STEPS!!!!! @Mitchell Yes it still doeas have the issue with 10.11.1. I found out that if you leave SIP disabled the whole time you can use it normally with having to do my described steps once. This has been the case here and i thought i had turned it back on which gave the impression as if they’ve had fixed it. Unfortunately you have to stick to my procedure described above but if you leave SIP disabled you can plug in any usb device afterwards it will still work. If you reenable SIP you have to do everthing again, as soon as you plug a different device in.

I hope this driver gets signed soon with apple because it is a pain in the a. This method works with any unsigned driver!!! If you have a non working USB device check the /System/Library/Extensions path for a.kext file with the name of your device.

If you find it there and your device is not working you can be sure its a signature problem. Just use the commands i described above and change the filename of the.kext to the filename you need. This helped me very often to get things going.

Apple should really overthink it signature policy. It’s just annoying 🙁. Charlie. Hi Doug, If you have the Plugable adapter, the latest driver for OS X is properly signed and there is no need to turn off SIP in order to install it. If you are having problems getting it installed, please contact us at and we can help.

However, reading your previous comment, it looks like SIP isn’t the problem, since SIP will prevent the installation if there is a problem with the driver. More likely there is some configuration issue or connection problem with the Dell switch. A good place to start is to make sure you have the right cable (Null modem or straight) and the correct port settings. If Dell provides a cable, it is usually best to use that one. Doug Lewis.