Dear Grand Poohbah and WeatherCat system tinkerers,
I am using the Silicon Labs CP210x Macintosh OSX VCP Driver v2.9 with Mac OS X 10.6.8 on a MacBook. According to the Silicon Labs web site, v3.0 is the latest version, but after reading the release notes it does not appear a major update to 2.9.
Hmm, golly wonder what version of the Silicon Labs driver I'm running . . . . .
So I look at the Read Me file for what I downloaded - it says: 2.1 (golly didn't know I was so far behind!!
)
So just to be sure, I dig my way into the bowels of my system and check the file itself - it says: 1.01!!
However, the creation dates appear to be the same. So it looks like Silicon Labs was . . . . shall we say a little sloppy in their release details.
I just checked and 3.0 is claimed to be compatible with 10.6. So as soon as I finish going through today's WeatherCat postings I'll bite the bullet and upgrade. The release notes suggest they have fixed some kernel panic
issuez so that's probably what my Mac is suffering from.
Cheers, Edouard