serial port as console linux/OSX question

[John Jetmore]

Hate to respond to my own thread, but I've collected most of the
information from various spots around the web.  When I get it all pulled
together I'll write a howto.

--John

On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, John Jetmore wrote:

>
> I have some questions about how serial ports work on the mac.  These are
> more general mac questions, but I thought some people here might know.
>
> At work we have a mixed bag of sun/solaris servers and intel/linux
> servers.  The sun servers run a console login on the serial port
> automatically with no intervention.  The linux servers we have figured out
> how to run through the serial port also, using grub options to get the
> startup text displayed there, and using init to spawn a listening
> login process once the machine has come up.
>
> >From there it's just a stardard db9 connector that we can connect to a
> wyse terminal, a terminal server, the serial port on a windows machine,
> etc, and control the machine remotely.
>
> So, I assume that I can do this same think w/ linux on the mac,
> software-wise.  My question is what kind of cable to use, what are the
> pinouts, etc.  Is there such a thing as an apple serial to db9 serial
> cable?  Are the settings still 96008n1?
>
> Additionally, I would really love to be able to attach to this serial port
> from a USB based machine running either OS9 or OSX.  How do I do this?  Is
> it even possible?  On a windows machine I would use COM1 and hyperterminal
> to connect to it.  On a *nix machine I might use kermit or something
> similar.  Is there something similar on a USB based machine?  Is there
> such a thing as a USB-apple serial connector?
>
> Anyway, any kicks in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> --John
>
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