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

2 comments:

jamsignal.com said...

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/

jamsignal.com said...

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