Bill Kendrick wrote: > Deepan posted this from a non-subscribed address. > > ----- Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- > > Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 07:15:42 +0530 > From: Deepan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: minicom on macbook > To: [email protected] > Reply-to: Deepan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hi All, > I would like to use serial port in macbook. I > guess usb to serial port convertor is the only > possible option. I wonder if it is possible to use > minicom in macbook to play with serial port (in > usb to serial port converter). Please let me know > if anyone has tried it. > Regards > Deepan > Sudoku Solver: http://www.sudoku-solver.net/ > I haven't tried anything like that with a macbook (because my fairy godparent hasn't gifted me with one ... dang them ... ) but I was successful in using minicom to talk through a USB-to-Serial adapter cable to a cisco router's console port on my linux (ubuntu) laptop.
However, that's not mac... but thanks to some googlemagic, I found a couple of people who had SOME success with Mac hardware and an adapter: http://www.ciscoblog.com/archives/2006/05/macbook_pro_usb.html http://blogs.msdn.com/cwilso/archive/2007/05/15/why-i-love-my-macbook-but-microsoft-too.aspx In both cases, it took a number of steps ... but it seems they got the link working. Hope this helps. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
