USB RECOGNITION IN CLASSIC WHILE RUNNING TIGER

Question

I need to be able to use a Keyspan serial assitant USA-28X B to interface with a Fanuc 18i-MB control via RS-232. To make a long story short, I've been using Microphone II in the classic environment on older macs for years to up/download from a Fanuc 16 control. A newly purchased machine has the newer control. I figured I'd just use this G4 Ibook to do the same thing. NOT. The keyspan device is not recognized by the G4 in classic mode. Apple system profiler (9.2.2) says no device is connected to the USB 0 chain. In fact, it doesn't recognize even an apple USB mouse as being there (although it works anyways and is recognized in the OSX profiler). I made sure I reloaded Keyspan's software twice and confirmed that the separate parts are where they belong in the Classic System folder. Extension manager confirms their existence and says they are loaded. Why won't this device work? PS I checked it on the older 16 control and it doesn't work there either although the old Imac g3 sitting there running native OS9 works just fine.

Answer 1

I was coming to a similar conclusion myself regarding classic mode being able to interface with OS X hardware. I went forward with using the Keyspan device with its OS X driver since I still need to get to RS232. ZTerm was my next choice. I set corresponding baud rates, stop bits, and the other info. Told the Fanuc to "punch" a warm-up program from its memory and voila, code on my screen from the Fanuc. I have yet to be able to send anything back to the machine and it's pi**ing me off. I have to be missing something really easy.
For those familiar with Microphone, the correct way to send to this control would be to select "transfer"-"send". Protocol is ASCII/Text. This assumes that communication settings have been matched between the machine and the PC; in this case:
Baud rate: 9600 (or higher if you want)
Data Bits: 7
Parity: Even
Stop Bits: 1
Flow Control: Hardware
The closest I have got is to see code on the ZTerm screen scrolling VERY SLOW in one long line across the screen. The Fanuc control never recognizes anything being sent to it and sits flashing "LSK". LSK should change to flashing "INPUT" when first line of code is sent from PC. Obviously the connection is stable if I can send from the machine to the computer.
Sorry if this seems a bit long-winded but I could really use some help and I want to give as much info as I can up front.