{"id":319,"date":"2011-01-11T11:05:07","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T10:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebc.ch\/blog\/?p=319"},"modified":"2013-02-01T13:01:56","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T12:01:56","slug":"extend-mac-powerbook-pro-with-a-serial-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebc.ch\/blog\/?p=319","title":{"rendered":"Extend Mac PowerBook Pro with a Serial Port"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One really important feature for me is a COM port. I mostly use it to access and configure headless computers or servers. Since i&#8217;d like to by a MacBook Pro i&#8217;ve called the appleshop support. They didn&#8217;t know of any working solution and told me to my a HP or IBM\u00c2\u00a0:-\/<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I found one at <a title=\"http:\/\/www.keyspan.com\/products\/usb\/USA19HS\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.keyspan.com\/products\/usb\/USA19HS\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.keyspan.com\/products\/usb\/USA19HS\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll see if its working\u00c2\u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE: 11.04.2006 Just got the thing<\/strong>. It is working (at least under linux). After plugging in it will be recognized by the kernel and USB-Hotplug-thing as:<\/p>\n<pre>\/dev\/ttyUSB0<\/pre>\n<p>just great!<\/p>\n<p>PS: Of course it also works under MacOSX with the appropriate driver: <a title=\"http:\/\/www.keyspan.com\/downloads\/homepage_pn_usa19hs.spml\" href=\"http:\/\/www.keyspan.com\/downloads\/homepage_pn_usa19hs.spml\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.keyspan.com\/downloads\/homepage_pn_usa19hs.spml<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One really important feature for me is a COM port. I mostly use it to access and configure headless computers or servers. Since i&#8217;d like to by a MacBook Pro i&#8217;ve called the appleshop support. They didn&#8217;t know of any &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thebc.ch\/blog\/?p=319\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac-os-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebc.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebc.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebc.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebc.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebc.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thebc.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2710,"href":"https:\/\/thebc.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/2710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebc.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebc.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebc.ch\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}