[AusNOG] Favourite USB to serial adapter cable

[John Lindsay]

I spent a frustrating evening last night discovering that under OSX after stty'ing the speed of three different USB serial devices they all revert to 9600 baud when you talk to the /dev/cu. device and that even setting the baud rate as you open it via "screen port speed" doesn't work. In fact you need to _change_ the baud rate in zterm for it to work. 

This was with a FTDI cable, an Arduino and an Atmel LUFA based USB serial interface on an embedded device. 

And there you were wondering why 9600,n,8,1 is still the default in 2015. 

Cheers,

John Lindsay

> On 6 Jan 2015, at 11:01 am, Geordie Guy <elomis at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> +1 for this one.
> 
>> On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Russell Brenner <rbrenner at brocade.com> wrote:
>> I had issues on my Mac too, but there’s a chipset that’s well supported called the UC232A. ATEN (not be confused with A10, which I was doing for a while) is the one to get.
>> 
>> http://www.aten.com/products/productItem.php?model_no=UC232A
>> 
>> There’s also a fancy 4 port hub version I just found: http://www.aten.com/products/Mobility-&-USB/USB-Converters/4-Port-USB-to-Serial-RS-232-Hub~UC2324.html
>> 
>> GetConsole would be sweet though, depends on price point I guess.
>> 
>> The GetConsole Airconsole looks freaking sweet though, supports Bluetooth LE and WiFi.
>> 
>> Is it just me, or do network engineers appear to have a bias toward OS X? (I know I do :)).
>> 
>>> On 4 Jan 2015, at 4:03 pm, Jacob Gardiner <jacob at jacobgardiner.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I'm a Mac user and had issues in the past finding something reliable, until I got one of these: 
>>> 
>>> http://www.tripplite.com/high-speed-usb-to-serial-adapter-keyspan~USA19HS/
>>> 
>>> Works well using screen /dev/blah
>>> 
>>>> On Sunday, January 4, 2015, Radek Tkaczyk <radek at tkaczyk.id.au> wrote:
>>>> Hi Guys,
>>>> 
>>>>  
>>>> 
>>>> What are people’s preferred USB to serial adapter cable to use with Cisco console cables these days? I have tried many over the years, and they are either unreliable, have driver issues, or blue screen Windows too frequently.
>>>> 
>>>>  
>>>> 
>>>> Don’t care about price – just want the most reliable one out there – Windows preferred, but if it works with Mac too that’s a bonus.
>>>> 
>>>>  
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks
>>>> 
>>>>  
>>>> 
>>>> Radek
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Jacob Gardiner
>>> @jacobgardiner
>>> 
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