> On Mar 27, 2019, at 4:18 PM, Mike <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On 3/27/19 12:23 PM, Brian Knight wrote: >>> On 2019-03-26 15:40, Mike wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> >>> Got a strange problem... I use my mac laptop for serial console duty >>> all the time and have a keyspan usb dongle I can attach the cisco flat >>> serial console cable to and other 9 pin devices and get in and do my >>> thing. The ASR920 however has a straight usb serial and it doesn't >>> work %100 of the time with my laptop machines.... >>> >> >> The ASR920 has a USB Type A socket on the front that is wired for >> RS232 instead of USB-type signaling. >> >> Are you using the cable from A920-CONS-KIT-S to connect to the serial >> port? >> >> I have no issues with my Mac + Keyspan dongle as long as I'm using >> that cable. >> >> -Brian >> >> > Hello, > > The USB Type-A to Type-A A920-CONS-KIT-S cable
I’m 90% sure the A920-CONS-KIT-S is the USB Type A plug to RJ45 socket, carrying RS232 signaling. (I don’t have a way to visually verify that at the moment.) I think you may be talking about the A920-CONS-KIT-U which is the USB Type A to Type A connector, carrying USB signaling. We / I have never used that since we prefer RS232 signaling. > , is a bust on mac and pc > laptops running linux. It DOES work for some reason, on another desktop > running linux. It also does work on same laptop running windows. Go > figure. For reference, the very excellent seeming 'Serial.app' for mac, > while very nice indeed, does not fix the problem either. It appears to > use the apple usb driver and not one of it's own as otherwise suggested. > > The universal fix does seems to be the the square usb to rj45 adapter > which was also suggested by someone, so thats what is going to stay in > my tech bag. Still would love to solve the mystery tho, since we can see > on identical hardware linux doesn't work but windows does. > > > Thanks everyone for the suggestions. > > > Mike- > -Brian _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
