Fun with ones and zeros
Mac OSX USB-Serial Adapter
At work I occasionally need to work with devices that have serial interfaces, like Cisco Access points, and wanted to do so with my MacBook. One particular USB-to-Serial adapter that I found works OK is a Sabrent SBT-USC1K, which uses the same MacOSX Prolific driver I had installed a while back for use with a GPS. I've used this on both MacOSX Tiger (10.4) and Leopard (10.5).
There are probably lots of USB-Serial adapters that work with a Mac, and even use that same driver. I just thought I'd jot down one in particular, so someone doesn't have to make a wild guess and order something hoping it happens to work with OSX.
posted: Sunday, 16 March 2008 15:27 | tags: hardware macosx
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#1 Avi commented, on July 17, 2008 at 5:52 p.m.:
Funny, I couldn't get it to work. Same one, downloaded the latest drivers, got nowhere. Install, reboot, but nothing shows up.
What did you do?