Re: USB to serial DB9 pin

[Kris Tilford]

On Jul 30, 2012, at 1:46 PM, JOHN CARMONNE wrote:


There are no Belkin that I can find for OS X


There's an old Belkin USB dockstation that has ports with OS X drivers  
available. Belkin F5U216. The F5U216 uses FTDI drivers .


I do have a Belkin F31661-06 but it's for OS 9. and even at that it  
never do work hardly.


If this adapter uses a cable to adapt a standard DB9 to the Mac DB8  
then you can likely use it with OS X. You'd need to determine the  
chipset used in the adapter and then find an OS X extension for it.  
You can probably plug the adapter into the USB and look in System  
Profiler to see about the chipset. It may be a Prolific Logic PL-2303  
which has OS X drivers.


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Re: USB to serial DB9 pin

[JOHN CARMONNE]

On Jul 30, 2012, at 9:05 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:



On Jul 30, 2012, at 8:42 AM, JOHN CARMONNE wrote:

I need to  get a USB to DB9 serial cable . Do I need a driver for  
this cable? G4 or G3 OS 10.4.11


Maybe. As I recall there's a hard-to-find (Belkin? MacAlly?  
Keyspan?) cable that doesn't need a driver; I ran across this  
looking up some GPS-related info a while back, about connecting GPS  
units to use as input devices for mapping programs on the Mac.


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There are no Belkin that I can find for OS X I do have a Belkin  
F31661-06 but it's for OS 9. and even at that it never do work hardly.  
I'll check for the other brands.



John Carmonne
Placentia CA 92870
From iMac Core Duo 2.0








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Re: USB to serial DB9 pin

[Bruce Johnson]

On Jul 30, 2012, at 8:42 AM, JOHN CARMONNE wrote:

> I need to  get a USB to DB9 serial cable . Do I need a driver for this cable? 
> G4 or G3 OS 10.4.11

Maybe. As I recall there's a hard-to-find (Belkin? MacAlly? Keyspan?) cable 
that doesn't need a driver; I ran across this looking up some GPS-related info 
a while back, about connecting GPS units to use as input devices for mapping 
programs on the Mac. 

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Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs


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