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Mountain Lion and Cisco's USB Console Cable
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<blockquote data-quote="Raz0rEdge" data-source="post: 1507141" data-attributes="member: 110816"><p>I've used these sorts of cables from vendors before and it is usually just a serial to USB cable that uses a FTDI chip. This is becoming more prominent now that a lot of laptops don't come with serial ports anymore.</p><p></p><p>If it's just a serial-to-USB with a known chip like the FTDI, then OS X should have support for it and create a /dev/ttyUSB0 or some device and then you can use whatever application you'd use normally to talk to that virtual com port..</p><p></p><p>I don't know anything about Cisco boxes, so not sure if there is some other proprietary thing that they use for communication..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Raz0rEdge, post: 1507141, member: 110816"] I've used these sorts of cables from vendors before and it is usually just a serial to USB cable that uses a FTDI chip. This is becoming more prominent now that a lot of laptops don't come with serial ports anymore. If it's just a serial-to-USB with a known chip like the FTDI, then OS X should have support for it and create a /dev/ttyUSB0 or some device and then you can use whatever application you'd use normally to talk to that virtual com port.. I don't know anything about Cisco boxes, so not sure if there is some other proprietary thing that they use for communication.. [/QUOTE]
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