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October 17th, 2001, 05:00 PM
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 Keyspan USB serial adapter for consoles Has anyone used Keyspan's "High Speed USB Serial Adapter" to console into a Unix box from a OS X system?
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October 18th, 2001, 05:11 AM
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| No. I picked up a Belkin serial adapter for $9, but they don't have OS X drivers yet. Dang it. -Rob
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October 23rd, 2001, 12:38 PM
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| Have you tried using "zterm" for OSX? That might be able to use the serial port. Also, I'd try finding out what device the serial adaptor uses in the /dev directory. Bob..
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October 23rd, 2001, 12:53 PM
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| Okay, one of us is going to have to buy and try something. If I can't console into my Sun boxes, I have to use this IBM Thinkpad 800 P3 (which, btw, boots up in over 3-4 times as slow as my Pismo 500).
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October 26th, 2001, 09:39 PM
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| Any developments? Did anyone solve this one? I want to do the same thing with an iBook. |
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October 27th, 2001, 05:09 PM
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| Even more fun would be to use such an adapter to console into an OS X box with a real hoary old VT102 or some such beast. Hmm... My university's library seems to have been slowly getting rid of its library search VT terminals & updating(!) them to 486-33's, I wonder what happened to the terminals.
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#7
October 28th, 2001, 09:04 AM
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| I got the Keyspan USB dual-serial port adapter that provides two mac-like serial ports under /dev/cu.Key...1, /dev/cu.Key....2 and /dev/tty.Key...1, /dev/tty.Key.....2. But for the life of me I can't figure out how to configure those ports: speed, duplex, parity, etc. ZTerm won't run on my OS X 10.1 box, so I don't know if it has useful tools for me. Anyone know how to configure serial devices in /dev? I tried dumping text files to /dev/cu.Keyspan.... ,but I only got junk on the imagewriter it was attached to. -Rob
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#8
October 30th, 2001, 02:31 PM
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| serial ports Wait, these are Mac serial ports? I thought they were standard PC serial ports. So, this USB/Serial adapter will *not* allow us to console into our boxes. Crap!
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