Everything else I tried was half-baked and not-ready-for-prime-time: Unsigned drivers, drivers that occasionally worked, drivers provided on mini-CD hard media (?! - didn't even know they made these any longer until I bought the Tripp-Lite cable), interface cables that "just didn't work", etc, etc, etc. They're simply tools that allowed me to get where I needed to be, and ended hours of failure and frustration. These are not intended as "commercial endorsements" I have absolutely no financial stake in either.
If it is relevant, I have a MacBook Pro 2016 which means that I have USB-to-serial adapter which is plugged in into a USB-c-to-USB adapter.Ī late entry to this question, but hopefully this will help someone:įor serial comms using a late-model Mac, my experience is that there are two things you should know: What is the reason why I cannot find the device as mentioned in the instructions and how can I use the build-in tools to open a serial connection without 3rd party software? I want to open the serial port with the build in screen command preferably ( screen ). Strangely, when I try to connect to the switch via Serial App, I can see the USB serial port and it works perfectly to connect to the switch which means that the USB-to-serial device works fine generally.
When I change the modem to a "Null modem", set the baud to 9600 and try to connect, a popup appears that says that my device is not available. respectively), which means, that I am not able to find a serial device which is associated with the usb port.Īfter the installation of the driver I had a "USB serial controller" in my network settings. The ls /dev/*usb* command does not return a result at all. I tried to follow several instructions such as this one or the installation instructions in the ZIP-archive of this driver but none of this worked.Īfter the installation of the mentioned driver of my device, all of the instructions I found asked me to use the ls /dev/tty.*, ls /dev/*usb* or the ls /dev/cu.* command to find out the device which is associated with the usb port. I have a Belkin F5U103V USB-to-serial adapter and want to connect to a HP ProCurve switch. I try to establish a serial connection with my MacBook (High Sierra 10.13.1) and need help.