As I said before, try www.geethree.com . They are making serial port
cards for iMacs revision A-D and G3 and G4. They have drivers for MacOS
X. Problem is that driver for Classic has a conflict and did not get
loaded during start of Classic environment. You have boot to Classic ...
Radek
BK wrote:
>
>
>
>On Tuesday, November 27, 2001, at 06:26 , Mike O'Brien wrote:
>
>> A week or two ago, I saw a neat message go by that I should have
>>saved. Grotting through the Newtontalk searchable archive failed to
>>turn
>>it up (alas).
>>
>> Someone sent in a short message that said they ran a USB-to-serial
>>adapter plus a third-party application that created an imaginary serial
>>port in the OS, which NTK was then able to use. It was not a Keyspan
>>adapter, and as best I recall, the application was third-party and not
>>associated with the adapter manufacturer.
>>
>> Does anybody recall this message? What were the details?
>>
>
>That was Sushi telling me about the option to have a serial port unit
>installed into an iMac. However, this might only be for older iMacs,
>though. The unit interfaces with circuitry that is already on the iMac's
>logic board (or at least used to be there on older iMacs). I wouldn't be
>surprised if this circuitry was only there in the early iMacs because
>Apple wasn't yet so sure if the ommission of serial ports would be
>accepted and if they had abandoned this backout route on the later
>models.
>
>In any event, there are no drivers for serial ports (that is to say
>other than USB) in OSX, so even if you upgrade your iMac with this unit,
>you won't be able to access it under OSX at all (unless that is you
>write yourself a driver for it, in case you are the kind of guy who can
>do that).
>
>The Kingston USB to serial adaptor however does have drivers for OSX
>even though they are still experimental (beta). However, Kingston don't
>support AppleTalk over serial at all (even not under OS9).
>
>I have a friend who tried to link up his MP130 using the Kingston
>adapter and couldn't get it to work, but Sushi said that he had once
>managed to get a Palm to connect using the Kingston adapter. YMMV.
>
>hth
>rgds
>BK
>
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