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

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

2007-09-05 Thread Rainer Ruecker
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 05:00:32PM -0400, 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 gener

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 n

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 960

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. > >

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 so

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

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

2007-09-04 Thread Juan Manuel Palacios
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 other term app. I > simply > use "screen" It's included i

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

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 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 Andy Michaels
On Sep 4, 2007, at 1:21 AM, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote: > > 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. > Fee

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

2007-09-04 Thread Juan Manuel Palacios
On Sep 4, 2007, at 2:51 AM, Graham Freeman wrote: > > 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 ye

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

2007-09-03 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

2007-09-03 Thread Juan Manuel Palacios
Hi Mark, thank you too for getting back to me so quickly! On Sep 4, 2007, at 2:15 AM, 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

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

2007-09-03 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

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

2007-09-03 Thread Juan Manuel Palacios
Hello Graham, thanks for the quick response! On Sep 4, 2007, at 1:53 AM, Graham Freeman wrote: > > Howdy, Juan, > > I use my MacBook Pro to connect to various serial consoles, and the > IOGear GUC232A (http://www.iogear.com/main.php? > loc=product&Item=GUC232A)is the USB-to-serial adapte

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

2007-09-03 Thread Mark K. Mellis
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 both the hardware and > software fronts. > In sho

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=product&Item=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 t

[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 wh