{"id":173,"date":"2009-07-17T16:04:16","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T23:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infinitedisorder.com\/?p=173"},"modified":"2012-01-05T15:26:16","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T22:26:16","slug":"serial-to-usb-on-macbook-pro-with-minicom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infinitedisorder.com\/?p=173","title":{"rendered":"Serial to USB on Lion with Minicom and PL2303"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m using a Trendnet TU-S9 which I bought on amazon for $18. It uses the Prolific Driver (PL2303). I chose this one because it works natively on current linux kernels (2.6).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-177\" title=\"TU_S9\" src=\"http:\/\/infinitedisorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/infinitedisorder.com\/2009\/07\/TU_S9-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"TU_S9\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/infinitedisorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/infinitedisorder.com\/2009\/07\/TU_S9-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/infinitedisorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/infinitedisorder.com\/2009\/07\/TU_S9.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Now I&#8217;d like to use it on my 13&#8243; Macbook Pro running Lion.<\/p>\n<p>I installed the driver from <a href=\"http:\/\/downloads.trendnet.com\/TU-S9\/Driver\/Driver_TU-S9_(CDV1.31).zip\">here<\/a>\u00a0(snow leopard only)<br \/>\nThen I installed the minicom package found <a href=\"http:\/\/mac.softpedia.com\/get\/Developer-Tools\/Minicom.shtml\">here<\/a>. (or use macports)<\/p>\n<p>Now we need to configure minicom.<br \/>\nRun \/opt\/minicom\/current\/bin\/minicom -s<br \/>\nSerial Port Setup -&gt; A Serial Device<br \/>\n\/dev\/tty.PL2303-000013FA\u00a0\u00a0(hit return afterwards, not escape!)<br \/>\nSerial Port Setup -&gt; \u00a0E Bps\/Par\/Bits<br \/>\nE:9600 &amp; Q: 8-N-1<br \/>\nSave setup as dfl<br \/>\nExit<\/p>\n<p>Run \/opt\/minicom\/current\/bin\/minicom to use it, or link it so it&#8217;s part of your path:<br \/>\nsudo ln -s \/opt\/minicom\/current\/bin\/minicom \/usr\/bin\/minicom<\/p>\n<p>If there are no good devices in \/dev\/tty.* then you may need to add the kernel extentions from<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/xbsd.nl\/2011\/07\/pl2303-serial-usb-on-osx-lion.html\">http:\/\/xbsd.nl\/2011\/07\/pl2303-serial-usb-on-osx-lion.html<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">ln -s \/opt\/minicom\/current\/bin\/minicom \/usr\/local\/bin\/minicom<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m using a Trendnet TU-S9 which I bought on amazon for $18. It uses the Prolific Driver (PL2303). I chose this one because it works natively on current linux kernels (2.6). Now I&#8217;d like to use it on my 13&#8243; Macbook Pro running Lion. I installed the driver from here\u00a0(snow leopard only) Then I installed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infinitedisorder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infinitedisorder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infinitedisorder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infinitedisorder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infinitedisorder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/infinitedisorder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319,"href":"https:\/\/infinitedisorder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infinitedisorder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infinitedisorder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infinitedisorder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}