USB serial cable recommendations?

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Beaverman3001

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I am looking to buy a USB to serial adapter, and despite the amount of adapters apples makes and sells, they do not make this adapter. Can anyone recommend one that they know for a fact works straight out of the box on the MBA? And if you also know it works fine with cisco console cables that is a plus.
 
I'm interested in this too. Just picked up a USB floppy drive and USB iomega zip drive. A USB serial and USB parallel cable and I'm all set to go Back to the Future... :cool:
 
Keyspan all the way for me

Beaverman3001 said:
I am looking to buy a USB to serial adapter, and despite the amount of adapters apples makes and sells, they do not make this adapter. Can anyone recommend one that they know for a fact works straight out of the box on the MBA? And if you also know it works fine with cisco console cables that is a plus.
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I regularly use Keyspan USB to serial cables with my Macs and Cisco switches and routers (2k, 3k and 6k devices). I've used their single port and four port models previously, mainly the single port one which lives in my bag. You need to download and install the drivers from their website and don't be put off that these are labelled as beta - they work fine for me on 10.7.1. I mainly use it with cu in Terminal but they just appear as the normal tty and cu devices (e.g. /dev/cu.USA19H41P1.1 and /dev/tty.USA19H41P1.1) so will work with all the usual terminal software (e.g. screen, ZTerm)

Alec
 
AlecEdworthy said:
I regularly use Keyspan USB to serial cables with my Macs and Cisco switches and routers (2k, 3k and 6k devices). I've used their single port and four port models previously, mainly the single port one which lives in my bag. You need to download and install the drivers from their website and don't be put off that these are labelled as beta - they work fine for me on 10.7.1. I mainly use it with cu in Terminal but they just appear as the normal tty and cu devices (e.g. /dev/cu.USA19H41P1.1 and /dev/tty.USA19H41P1.1) so will work with all the usual terminal software (e.g. screen, ZTerm)

Alec
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Excellent, exactly what I needed to hear (I'll probably use ZTerm). Thank you.
 
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