[cisco-voip] OT: mac book terminal program

[Doug McIntyre]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 08:02:39AM -0400, Ed Leatherman wrote:
> The adapter I bought has the PL-2302 chip in it, so having the right drive
> is a "good thing", thanks for pointing it out :) Will try out some of the
> suggestions today.


In the past, (I haven't tried lately), the PL-2302 chipset dongles
(which are everywhere) drivers did not support sending the break
signal on Mac OSX. Kind of makes it hard for Cisco password recovery
on certain devices. Maybe they've fixed that by now otherwise they worked. 

I'll echo that Keyspan works 100% and is reliable. No problems there.
I have several Keyspan ones including a 4-porter.  

I like using kermit from the command line on Mac (or linux, or
solaris, or, etc. etc. etc). Its the same everywhere, supports lots of
different transfer protocols (if you actually need to fallback to
doing a file transfer over serial), etc.