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Well that wasn't really much fun.
I managed to get the IOGEAR USB device talking to the serial ports on two Sparc systems today (one with an old fashioned D-9 connector, the other with the newer RJ-45 connector using a D-9 to RJ-45 converter).
I tried but failed to get a connection to the Xserve. I found an interesting article about the subject on MacOS X Hints called Use an old serial VT100 terminal with OS X but it didn't really help with this particular problem. I still can't figure out what's wrong the setup on the Xserve, but it isn't essential right this minute. We're going to leave a monitor on the system via a KVM, so it can wait while I seek better mojo.
The settings for ZTerm are straight forward, although more difficult to arrive at if you choose unknown devices, cables, adapters, drivers and software as I did. The settings you want are 9600 baud, 8-n-1 (data, parity and stop), no echo (it's a full duplex connection) and no handshaking.
Finally, more in the device department...
Jeff sent me some email over the weekend pointing to ByteRunner Technologies which sells a wide range of USB to RS-232 devices based on FTDI chipsets. He uses a 4 port device on a linux box. FTDI also makes available MacOS X drivers.
Posted by Dave at February 3, 2004 10:35 PM