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From: DaveC on 26 Apr 2010 10:23 >> I have a USB-to-serial adapter > My condolences. The day I threw mine into the box in the closet was a > good day for me. Problem solved. The solution proved to be much simpler than I thought: the Wacom (or the USB-serial adapter) doesn't like being plugged into a USB hub. Once plugged into one of the Mac Mini's ports, all is good. You might drag out that adapter from the closet. The drivers from Source Forge really are light years better than the ones by the chip manufacturer: <http://sourceforge.net/projects/osx-pl2303/> Thanks to all, Dave
From: Jolly Roger on 26 Apr 2010 14:19 In article <0001HW.C7FAEFE30049F504B01AD9AF(a)news.eternal-september.org>, DaveC <invalid(a)invalid.net> wrote: > >> I have a USB-to-serial adapter > > > My condolences. The day I threw mine into the box in the closet was a > > good day for me. > > Problem solved. > > The solution proved to be much simpler than I thought: the Wacom (or the > USB-serial adapter) doesn't like being plugged into a USB hub. Once plugged > into one of the Mac Mini's ports, all is good. > > You might drag out that adapter from the closet. The drivers from Source > Forge really are light years better than the ones by the chip manufacturer: > > <http://sourceforge.net/projects/osx-pl2303/> > > Thanks to all, > Dave Oh I've rid myself of any serial devices that required a USB-to-Serial adapter long ago. If I ever find the time, there is actually one case where I'd like to use my USB-to-Serial adapter though. I work for an embedded chip manufacturer, and I'd like to see if I can get minicom on Mac OS X (or similar) to communicate through my Keyspan USB-to-Serial adapter with a development board running embedded Linux. If I could do that I'd no longer need a separate Linux box to do dev work on it. : ) At first glance, it appears osx-pl2303 doesn't support Keyspan adapters. Luckily the Keyspan drivers appear to work in 10.5, and probably in 10.6. So I may be able to get by with them. -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR
From: DaveC on 26 Apr 2010 23:30 > If I ever find the time, there is actually one case where I'd like to > use my USB-to-Serial adapter though. I work for an embedded chip > manufacturer, and I'd like to see if I can get minicom on Mac OS X (or > similar) to communicate through my Keyspan USB-to-Serial adapter with a > development board running embedded Linux. If I could do that I'd no > longer need a separate Linux box to do dev work on it. : ) At first > glance, it appears osx-pl2303 doesn't support Keyspan adapters. Luckily > the Keyspan drivers appear to work in 10.5, and probably in 10.6. So I > may be able to get by with them. The Keyspan has it's own drivers that -- according to Google ;-) -- seem to do just fine. Re. a comm utility, I found that CoolTerm does the best of the ones I've tried. Available at all the usual places. Dave
From: Jolly Roger on 27 Apr 2010 10:30
In article <0001HW.C7FBA88200753A1BB04CF9AF(a)news.eternal-september.org>, DaveC <invalid(a)invalid.net> wrote: > > If I ever find the time, there is actually one case where I'd like to > > use my USB-to-Serial adapter though. I work for an embedded chip > > manufacturer, and I'd like to see if I can get minicom on Mac OS X (or > > similar) to communicate through my Keyspan USB-to-Serial adapter with a > > development board running embedded Linux. If I could do that I'd no > > longer need a separate Linux box to do dev work on it. : ) At first > > glance, it appears osx-pl2303 doesn't support Keyspan adapters. Luckily > > the Keyspan drivers appear to work in 10.5, and probably in 10.6. So I > > may be able to get by with them. > > The Keyspan has it's own drivers that -- according to Google ;-) -- seem to > do just fine. > > Re. a comm utility, I found that CoolTerm does the best of the ones I've > tried. Available at all the usual places. > > Dave I'm partial to minicom <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minicom> just because it's what I use in Linux, but also because it, being a command-line program, can be used remotely easily. I think you can also use the built-in 'screen' command to connect to any port. Though I'm not sure how you would control baud rate etc. I'll check out CoolTerm sometime. I was an avid ZTerm user back in the day, so I'd probably be more inclined to use it if I wanted a GUI-based communications program! -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR |