Aquanotes on a Mac

[jackthestrat]

Has anyone gotten Aquanotes working CONSISTENTLY through a VMWare emulation on a Mac? If so, how?

 

[jackthestrat]

Bueller?

 

[reefjarod]

Sorry I cant even figure out how to resize and post pics with my Mac.

 

[Gardiner]

I use it with Parallels. It is the same thing as VMWare and aquanotes works great.

I set it up just as I would on a regular Windows XP computer. No special settings.

 

[RayD]

No special settings here either. I use VMWare Fusion 2.x

Just make sure the serial port is enabled on the VM.

 

[jackthestrat]

Ray -

Any chance you could elaborate on how-to? I'm neither a VMWare nor a Mac whiz. Im using VMWare just for this specific purpose

I'm also using a Prolific Serial - USB pigtail to connect to the Mac - does that make a difference?

No special settings here either. I use VMWare Fusion 2.x

Just make sure the serial port is enabled on the VM.

 

[JayM]

Ray -

Any chance you could elaborate on how-to? I'm neither a VMWare nor a Mac whiz. Im using VMWare just for this specific purpose

I'm also using a Prolific Serial - USB pigtail to connect to the Mac - does that make a difference?

That's going to make a difference. I have issues getting USB-serial ports working on my NON VMWare instances of XP.

My puTTY telnet client bombs out constantly with my usb-serial, and I've tried 3 or 4 types. My next laptop will def have a native serial port

 

[jackthestrat]

After dedicating some time to this today I was able to get the Prolific USB to Serial working on the virtual machine, I had to kextunload as root in Terminal then restart the virtual machine, at which point I had use of it. I've set it as COM 3 in the Aquacontroller settings (that is what it defaulted to in Windows XP), and the bottom of the AC software says "Connected", but it always eventually shows aquacontroller not responding.

 

[jackthestrat]

And after just a little bit of additional tinkering, we are officially in business.

Now to get this thing running on a serial - bluetooth Then I'll have a wireless ACJr connected to a Mac