These instructions are valid for Panther only. They do not work with Tiger.
UPDATE: July 25, 2005… Helpful reader Harald Wagener contributes this information for Tiger users:
today I faced a situation like You described in Your post from September, 2004: Using my trusty ibook and a keyspan USB/Serial adapter, I had to reconfigure a 3com switch.
In the first line of Your post, You state that the described procedure would not work with Tiger.
What works, though, is installing minicom using darwinports, and using the Keyspan serial adapter with a nullmodem cable. Since Your post comes up quite high when people search via google, You might add this bit of information to Your blog.
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One of my duties as both a network admin and a consultant is to manage switches, routers and firewalls. Depending on the circumstances, establishing a telnet or SSH session to the device isn’t always possible and a console connection has to be used.
For such serial communications, Windows comes with an app named Hyperterminal. Mac OS X doesn’t come with an equivalent. A Shareware app named ZTerm ($20) is available and it certainly does the job, but an alternative named Minicom can do it for free.
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