Evening everyone!
I'm new on this list so I apologize before hand if any of my
questions are repeated and have been dealt with already, I've been
googling for a while and still don't have some things very clear.
Feel free to simply point me to some other [online] resource where I
can look up the information I'm looking for if it's been aired here
too many times here.
In a nutshell, I need to connect to the console in a net4521 device
from a Mac OS X computer (MacBook Pro running 10.4.10), so my obvious
question is how to accomplish that from both the hardware and
software fronts.
The box has a db9 serial port, so I'm guessing a db9 to USB
converter will help; but I'm not sure if the serial port on the 4521
is a DTE or a DCE, so I don't know if I'll need a null modem (female
to female?) to make the connection work or not (I should note that
I've been a Mac user all my life, so I don't know much about serial
ports other than USB ;-). In short, what hardware is recommended to
make the connection? If there are any Mac users reading, can you also
tell me if I'll need any drivers for the USB-db9 converter to work on
10.4?
Lastly, once the hardware part is dealt with, how do I reach the
console in the 4521? That is, what software should I use to actually
connect to the device? I'm fairly comfortable with the Unix aspect of
the system so please don't refrain from pointing me to some command
line only application, even if it means compiling it from source. I
could go as far as considering installing Linux and/or {Free,Net,Open}
BSD on my computer if any of those makes communicating with the 4521
any easier.
Thanks in advance for your help and time! Regards,...
-jmpp
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