[jhogarty]

I'm not sure if any of you PowerBook users are in the networking field. But I use my Dell laptop frequently to console in, via a serial port, to Cisco routers and switches. For normal day to day ops, I can IP in or use one of our terminal servers. But there are times I need to connect via the console port (serial).

Is there an adapter that can go USB to Serial that works well with the PowerBook and an accompaning terminal program? A few years ago I had a PB and a USB to Serial device. But it didn't work very well.

Besides seeing if Apple will release a new PB soon, this is the only thing stopping me from migrating off my Dell Laptop.

Thanks,

J.

[ecsherwo]

Just got my new powerbook and I am facing the same dilema. I just ordered this from newegg
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16812107906

It says its mac compatible, I then found the site below online detailing that you either need zterm or you can get a version of minicom running. I will let you know how it goes for me as I need a laptop to configure routers and FWs via console all the time

http://www.planet-rcs.de/en/article/mac_serial_port/

[jhogarty]

Thanks! I'll look forward to hearing about your experience. My networking skills pay the bills at the moment so can't loose that functionality. Slowly migrating to what I want to do - creative work.

J.

[ibook_steve]

Keyspan also makes a ton of these:

http://www.keyspan.com/products/homepage-Serial.spml

Steve

[polendo]

Keyspan are good. I remember that to connect a yesteryear's Palm Pilot with a serial connector, the only one working with Jaguar was the Keyspan... or if you could find the original Palm serial to usb connector.