OSX Serial Console Success
The only thing that I have missed with my PowerBook has been the lack of a DB9 serial port that I could use to hook up to the several headless Frankenstein FreeBSD boxes I have around my house. I bought a Keyspan USB Serial Adaptor a while ago to do a migration off of my old Palm V, but I could never find a terminal program that would recognize the strange USB port numbering (Minicom always expects something as /dev/ttycu). I’m sure its a tiny market, but I finally found a tool that would work: MacWise. Added the latest Keyspan drivers, installed the MacWise demo, hooked up an old null modem cable, and I am off and running. This laptop can do anything!
