Re: [Soekris] Connecting to a net4521 from Mac OS X

2007-09-05 Thread Henrik Lund Kramshoej
On 04/09/2007, at 13.52, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2007/09/04 07:32, Bob Camp wrote: There is one thing to be careful about. The ComBios serial flash update uses Xmodem-CRC. The process the bios uses is tuned to match the Windows Hyperterminal implementation of the protocol. cu/lsz works

Re: [Soekris] Connecting to a net4521 from Mac OS X

2007-09-05 Thread Juan Manuel Palacios
On Sep 5, 2007, at 12:00 AM, Andy Michaels wrote: hmmm, for my soekrii (is that the plural?) I've never had to do too much to get everything (well, everything I use anyway) working to my satisfaction. I generally set the baud rate via an option like so: $ screen /dev/tty.usbserial0 9600

Re: [Soekris] Connecting to a net4521 from Mac OS X

2007-09-05 Thread The Fungi
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 05:00:32PM -0400, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote: [...] ssh once you have an OS loaded and booted and connecting over the ethernet port? Or some other magical setup? There are in fact such magical setups (like the ssh console in Debian-Installer), but these are rare and not

Re: [Soekris] Connecting to a net4521 from Mac OS X

2007-09-05 Thread Andy Michaels
On Sep 5, 2007, at 5:00 PM, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote: On Sep 5, 2007, at 12:00 AM, Andy Michaels wrote: hmmm, for my soekrii (is that the plural?) I've never had to do too much to get everything (well, everything I use anyway) working to my satisfaction. I generally set the baud rate

Re: [Soekris] Connecting to a net4521 from Mac OS X

2007-09-04 Thread Martin Johnson
On 4 Sep 2007, at 07:15, Mark K. Mellis wrote: On Sep 3, 2007, at 10:21 PM, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote: In a nutshell, I need to connect to the console in a net4521 device from a Mac OS X computer (MacBook Pro running 10.4.10), so my obvious question is how to accomplish that from

Re: [Soekris] Connecting to a net4521 from Mac OS X

2007-09-04 Thread Graham Freeman
On 03 Sep 07, at 23:23, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote: Thanks for these suggestions, I'll certainly look into them! One question though, do they require Mac OS X specific drivers to work? I think so, but it's been close to a year since I installed either one, so I can't recall.

Re: [Soekris] Connecting to a net4521 from Mac OS X

2007-09-04 Thread Bob Camp
Hi As others have mentioned, there are a lot of ways to do the Mac to 4521 connection. I have yet to find one that *does not* work on the Mac for basic communication. There is one thing to be careful about. The ComBios serial flash update uses Xmodem-CRC. The process the bios uses is tuned

Re: [Soekris] Connecting to a net4521 from Mac OS X

2007-09-04 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/09/04 07:32, Bob Camp wrote: There is one thing to be careful about. The ComBios serial flash update uses Xmodem-CRC. The process the bios uses is tuned to match the Windows Hyperterminal implementation of the protocol. cu/lsz works fine for me... the basic procedure is here:

Re: [Soekris] Connecting to a net4521 from Mac OS X

2007-09-04 Thread Juan Manuel Palacios
On Sep 4, 2007, at 2:26 AM, Martin Johnson wrote: On 4 Sep 2007, at 07:15, Mark K. Mellis wrote: On Sep 3, 2007, at 10:21 PM, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote: In a nutshell, I need to connect to the console in a net4521 device from a Mac OS X computer (MacBook Pro running 10.4.10), so my

Re: [Soekris] Connecting to a net4521 from Mac OS X

2007-09-04 Thread The Fungi
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 03:22:45PM -0400, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote: [...] I go as far as remapping some of my bind keys, but the other day I had some trouble scrolling up and down a screen buffer ;-) I believe Terminal.app on OS X grabs the PgUp/PgDn keys, or at least my experience was that I

Re: [Soekris] Connecting to a net4521 from Mac OS X

2007-09-04 Thread Andy Michaels
On Sep 4, 2007, at 3:22 PM, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote: Hi Andy, from a guy who is somewhat thankful for never having seen himself in the need of setting up a serial device before ;-) On Sep 4, 2007, at 6:57 AM, Andy Michaels wrote: Everyone seems to want to use minicom or some

[Soekris] Connecting to a net4521 from Mac OS X

2007-09-03 Thread Juan Manuel Palacios
Evening everyone! I'm new on this list so I apologize before hand if any of my questions are repeated and have been dealt with already, I've been googling for a while and still don't have some things very clear. Feel free to simply point me to some other [online] resource

Re: [Soekris] Connecting to a net4521 from Mac OS X

2007-09-03 Thread Graham Freeman
Howdy, Juan, I use my MacBook Pro to connect to various serial consoles, and the IOGear GUC232A (http://www.iogear.com/main.php? loc=productItem=GUC232A)is the USB-to-serial adapter that I use. It was a bit of a pain to setup, but I don't remember the details at this point. I've heard