John Broome writes: > I've used the iogear usb serial adapter with my powerbook, > a sparcstation 5, minicom from darwinports and a null modem > cable and it worked fine.
One drawback to the IOGEAR is that (at least with the OSX driver), the serial dongle cannot transmit a break (STOP+A). I like to keep a couple of Sun "Type 5" keyboards around, if only to be able to send a STOP+N when the PROM gets into a FUBAR state. Jim Fron writes: >Probably. Well, one crap keyspan USB/serial device and one, > possibly now two crap SS20's has taught me a lesson: > for the money, it may be better to go out and but a cheap sh*t > Wal-Mart PC instead of buying "good" hardware off eBay. A valuable (if expensive) lesson. Personally, I'd take a *good* SS20 over a "consumer grade" desktop PC, but would strongly recommend a more modern "server grade" Sparc over either of the cheap options, something like a Netra T1/105 (from eBay) or even a V100 ($1K new). Kevin Kadow
