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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) Use a Serial Console with Mac OS X Leopard Post 302262270 by joecassara on Wednesday 26th of November 2008 11:47:21 PM

11-27-2008

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Use a Serial Console with Mac OS X Leopard

I'm trying to use an old Commodore 128D as a terminal to access OS X's shell via a serial port. I've used 'screen' and 'zterm' to ensure the two machines are successfully interfaced.

Instructions for opening up the serial console on other Unix-y operating systems don't work with OS X Leopard. My serial port is /dev/tty.usbserial.

* Activating the serial console in /etc/ttys -- No luck

* /usr/libexec/./getty std.9600 /dev/tty.usbserial -- Seem to do nothing

* screen /dev/tty.usbserial -- The Mac and 128D communicate with each other, but a shell is NOT opened on the 128D

I've scoured the internet for a solution to no avail. All I've found are procedues for OS X Server, using SerialTerminalSupport, but I don't have Server.

Any ideas?

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hp-search-mac

HP-SEARCH-MAC(1)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					  HP-SEARCH-MAC(1)

NAME

       hp-search-mac  -- HP switch search tool.

DESCRIPTION

	HP-search-MAC is an util that can query HP switches for their
	connection table. It then allow you to search for a MAC address and tell you
	where it is physically connected (best match first).
	.
	The functionality is similar to traceroute but on Ethernet level and only
	for HP switches.

USAGE

       hp-search-mac [options] [MAC] [...]

OPTIONS

       hp-search-mac [options] mac [ [options] mac ] [...]

       options:
	 --dl n 	  Set debug level to n.
	 --help 	  Print this help.
	 --hostname host[=>community] | -h host[=>community]	       Set a switch name to search. You can also set this in
		       /etc/hp-search-mac.conf or ~/.hp-search-mac.conf.	    The hash to set is \%switches.

       Mac:
	 You can use some different formats:	  ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff (hex)      ff-ff-ff-ff-ff-ff (hex)

	       0.123.0.12.0.12.0 (dec)

       CONFIGURATION:

       \%switches:	This is a normal perl hash of the form	    \%switches = ("host" => "community", ...);

AUTHOR

       Ola Lundqvist <ola@inguza.com>

SEE ALSO

       snmp-walk(1) snmp-get(1)

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