Tuesday, October 6, 2009

USB to serial adapter with OSX

I have a hawking USB to Serial converter I need to use with my MacBook. There is always a console port calling my name.

First I installed the Prolific driver from this page, Prolific. Now I just open terminal and type the command below.

screen /dev/tty.usbserial

I had to search for the command to close screen when I was done.

Ctrl-a k
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2 comments:

  1. jamsignal.comOctober 10, 2009 at 1:01 PM

    I just found out there is another driver that may be better than the Prolific.

    PL2303 USB to Serial Driver for Mac OS Xhttp://sourceforge.net/projects/osx-pl2303/

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  2. jamsignal.comJune 16, 2011 at 8:25 PM

    How to reset a Cisco password.

    screen /dev/tty.usbserial 1200
    Restart router and unreadable text will display on screen.
    Hold space for 15 seconds to simulate break key.
    Quit screen and run again without the 1200.

    rommon 1>
    confreg 0x2142
    reset

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