[X Servers] Serial connection?

[Ken Rossman]

To follow up on my earlier message (and just for the record):

   - I have managed to get the Keyspan USB to Serial adapter working.
     This is the one that is designated for PDA's, NOT the high-speed 
one,
     although I suppose the high speed one should work just fine also.

   - I have also found, now that I looked, that c-kermit was already
     ported to MacOSX awhile ago.  I had only to fetch it, compile it,
     and then do a few magic incantations with file and directory
     protections, and to the /var/spool/uucp directory, and off I went.

Serial port is working fine now.  Again, in my case, I am using 
C-Kermit,
compiled for MacOSX (in my case, 10.2.5), and I am using the Keyspan
USB Serial adapter (part number USA-19) with the latest Keyspan OSX
driver.

Instructions for obtaining, compiling, and installing C-Kermit for
MacOSX (and other unix operating systems) can be found at:

   http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckuins.html

Keyspan USB serial adapter info and drivers can be found at:

   http://www.keyspan.com/products/usb/pdaadapter/

FYI, /K

On Tuesday, April 22, 2003, at 02:01 PM, konrad cichocki wrote:

> Being a Network Admin, I find it necessary to sometimes have to use
> a serial cable to look at a configuration of a switch or router.
> How can I do this with a Mac since they never had a 9-pin serial
> connection?  Is there some kind of converter? What application in
> X acts like HyperTerminal on the PC?