Hi there! Has anyone had any luck connecting to the empeg serial port via a Mac?

I have the iogear usb to serial adapter (driver installed on MacOS X successfully). I've got that connected to the empeg, so now it's just a matter of getting a sane connection between the two. Looking at the FAQ entry for Hyperterminal to try and come up with a reasonable Mac-flavored version. The closest I can come using screen is "screen -fn /dev/tty.usbserial0" (not good enough - can't seem to set the speed [to 115200 in this case]). Compiling minicom for the same device didn't get me very far either.

Hmm ... perhaps use (gasp) Kermit???

Ah-ha! Figured it out. In case anyone else could use the magic incantation (for the iogear device in particular):

screen -fn /dev/tty.usbserial0 115200,cs8,ixoff

-fn is a bit redundant with ixoff in there, but anyhoo - have fun.

i use minicom regularly to do it, no problems.

Excellent - do tell! Did you have to recompile it with anything in particular to get it working? (I ran "sudo minicom -s" but it just sits there, even with the lock directory present. That's where I kept getting stuck.)

ckermit is alive and well, and is *still* my terminal emulator of choice for serial connections!

I think there's even a debian package for it.