[G4] Good News on USB to Serial Adapters with OSX

[Richard Smykla]

Hi, all.

I'm using a Compucable USB to Mac Serial adapter 'mini-ADB' with 
Jaguar and my ADB keyboard - with no problems whatsoever, despite 
these dire messages on their Web site: "The following product no 
longer work under MacOS X when upgraded from MacOS 9.x.x " and  "As 
Apple Computer continues to move forward with OS X development, 
legacy support for ADB and serial/GEO ports are not longer feasible, 
especially when many serial and ADB peripherals do not have OS X 
native drivers"

http://www.compucable.com/mac_products/embed.asp?stuff=se_ip_body.html#ip_7

Anyway, happy to report that these adapters ARE working, at least in 
the current iterations of MacOS X. As always, YMMV. . .

Rick

>  >
>>>  When I first started using OSX I found my Serial to USB Adapter was only
>>>  semi working.  I had an old adapter that was no longer supported and I
>>>  figured it was a waste of time an effort to mess with it.
>>>
>>>  For grins I tried the old adapter with OSX 10.2.3 and it works perfect. I
>>>  now realize the bug may have been in the 10.1 OSX OS rather than with the
>>>  adpater.  The adapter is working perfect now and even the old software for
>>>  my terminal node controller (TNC) works in the classic mode. It used to
>>>  crash big time under OSX 10.1xx
>>
>>  Which adapter is it?
>
>It is an  Entrega USB to Mac Serial Adapter
>
>http://reviews.macnn.com/reviews/entrega/usb2serial.shtml
>
>>From the Customer Support Line:
>
>-----------------------
>Unfortunately, these products are no longer being manufactured by Intel.
>Additionally, Intel no longer provides interactive support for these
>products via telephone or e-mail, nor will Intel provide any future software
>updates to support new operating systems or improve compatibility with third
>party devices and software.
>---------------------
>
>It works great now!
>
>----------

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Rick Smykla
http://rsmykla.home.pipeline.com/index.htm