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That is pretty silly when I have a very expensive Mac Pro on my desk, and a MacBook Pro, neither of which can operate this device, either under leopard or snow leopard.Don't buy this product. I don't know how anyone is getting any satisfaction with it, but I certainly am not. and my project stopped dead in it's tracks over this. Once I had done that, my machine began blue screening, which it had never previously done before.The bottom line is that I was unable to use the device on any available platform (I didn't try Linux). The product claims to have drivers for Windows, and Mac OS X. I bought this product to interface to a microcomputer. I loaded the drivers for Mac OS X and subsequently after a reboot, the application could not find a serial device and an examination of /dev showed no pseudo device was created.Then I gave up and installed the drivers for Windows XP. I guess I will have to go dig out an old computer with a real serial port to do this work.
It worked flawlessly with my ancient faxmodem right up until we got rid of the land line altogether. I bought this when I upgraded a FreeBSD server to a motherboard with no builtin serial. I guess that means that analog telephone became obsolete before RS232 in my house.Also tested on OSX (including Snow Leopard) using the drivers from Prolific Technology's website (maker of the chipset inside this device).
It came with no instructions and a small installation disk. We have since given up and are transferring files between the laptop and the GPS using an SD card (works flawlessly). We bought this product in order to connect a Magellan Meridian Gold to the USB port on our laptop. After installing the product to the best of our ability, no connection was ever made to the GPS.
Works on Macbook Pro with ZTerm v1.1beta7 as tty.usbserial and Ubuntu Linux 8.10 Minicom 2.3 as ttyUSB0, both without loading the driver CD. So far I have just tried using it on Cisco router consoles.
I had apcupsd running on the old machine. Plugged in the UPS using this converter.2.
and it was.running. Edit /etc/apcupsd/apcupsd.conf to configure/change the name.4.
Look at /var/log/messages to see what device name was automatically assigned (/dev/ttyUSB0).3. Run "apcaccess" to verify it's working.
I recently upgraded the hardware on my Linux box and I no longer have serial ports. This is how I got it running after the hardware upgrade:1.
Execute "/sbin/chkconfig apcupsd on" then "service apcupsd start".5.
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