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Minicom for mac how to#
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Look for a process called "SCREEN" using ps.

Minicom for mac serial#

If you fail to do this and exit a Terminal session, you'll leave the screen session alive and the serial resource unavailable until you kill the screen session manually." Type Control-A followed by Control-\ to exit your screen session.

Set theDevice to (choose from list theDeviceList)ĭo script "screen " & theDevice & " " & baudRateĭisplay dialog "To quit you terminal session type - then -" Set theDeviceList to (paragraphs of serialDevices) as list Set serialDevices to (do shell script "ls /dev/cu*") I use the following keyspan.term (string-style plist for readability): ) If you prefer to use Minicom, you could still use the AppleScript to wrap it into a nice launchable app - use this older hint to find the right command line commands.

Minicom for mac how to#

If anyone can reply with a link to a tutorial on how to wrap an interactive Unix App in Cocoa, that would be the next step - it would be nice to do this without involving Terminal.

man screen will show you further commands to send to a screen session. If you fail to do this and exit a Terminal session, you'll leave the screen session alive and the serial resource unavailable until you kill the screen session manually. So type Control-A followed by Control-\ to exit your screen session. Screen uses Control-A to take commands directed to it. You may also need to customize the screen command with a different device name if you are using something other than the Keyspan Serial Adapter (do an ls tty* of the /dev/ directory to get the right name). You may want to customize this slightly - you can change the screen colors or number of columns or rows. Set custom title of window 1 to "SerialOut"Ĭompile and save as an app from within Script Editor, and you have a double-clickable application to launch a serial Terminal session. Set normal text color of window 1 to "green" Set background color of window 1 to "black" Solution: Use screen, Terminal, and a little AppleScripting.įirst, launch Script Editor and type/paste in the following code: tell application "Terminal"ĭo script with command "screen /dev/tty.KeySerial1" Minicom requires installation of Fink or MacPorts and is overly complex.It is not worth the shareware fee in its current form. The developer doesn't seem in any hurry to rectify the situation. It hasn't been updated in five years or so, and isn't a Universal Binary. I often have to do router configuration via a console port, so I use a Keyspan Serial Adapter to get access. Using AppleScript and Screen with the Terminal utility type: sudo rm -r /Library/Receipts/osx-pl2303.pkg/ type: sudo rm -r /System/Library/Extensions/osx-pl2303.kext/ The command prompt ask for you administrator password type: kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/osx-pl2303.kext/

Minicom for mac driver#

PackageMaker does not support uninstall! Removing the driver can be done by executing the following steps:

Minicom for mac install#

You will be guided through the steps necessary to install this software. "Welcome to the OS X PL2303 USB to Serial driver Installation Program. Uninstalling the Prolific Driver (from the installation screen.) Serial adapters that use the 2303 chipset include:

Beyond Logic's clues for integrating the FDTI chipset into your devices.

Mouser Electronics catalog of FDTI cables and modules (PDF).

USB Gear Serial RAT Adapter (This works well).

Serial adapters that use the FDTI chipset include: However, there's an open-source driver ( ) that works better.

Minicom for mac mac os x#

Prolific's own Mac OS X driver is currently not very good you can't send a break signal via screen in Terminal, for example. Many USB-serial adapters use the same chip, Prolific Industries' PL-2303 controller. No need to shell out for Keyspan's admittedly very good drivers. You can try using a BlueTooth serial adapter.You can also use Conserver (which also needs to be compiled under OS X.).You can try minicom, but you will need clues from Jeffery Frey's package to compile it on your machine, which means you need a compiler (usually GCC, from the OS X Developer Toolkit).

You can also use AppleScript to invoke the Terminal utility and pointing it to your USB-DB9 serial dongle.

There was also a sourceforge project called iTerm ( ).

You can look for ZTerm, but look for a current version (finally runs native under Mac OS X).

There are a few tricks to try, and a few clues to remember.