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Any device connected to a USB to serial port adapter could be directly communicated with using Z-Term. A very old program, but still effective.

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Originally Posted by markashley (Post 471933)

@dmaas
MultiCom looks promising. Had a quick look but couldn't figure out how to configure it. It seems to want me to select a real serial port, but I need an emulated one. Any ideas how I could go about doing this?

Software <-> virtual COM port <-> COM port redirector software <-> ethernet port <-> device

So the virtual COM port and the COM port redirector software are the components I need to implement on the Mac.

Use a USB Serial Converter connected to KeySpan USB Server or something like a serial-to-Ethernet device as manufactured by www.WuT.de

If you have Parallels installed, you should already have a virtual COM Port. Else, you'd have to create one via Terminal by following this hint
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...30724135653825

MultiCom will then allow to Bridge the serial connection between your device and your virtual COM port
Or use interceptty with a synthax like
interceptty -q '@serial-server.example.com:4001' \
/dev/serial-server

@dmaas
Could you explain in a bit more detail how that hint you linked to can be used to create a virtual serial port? That could solve all of our problems when combined with Multicom.

Here is the solution :)

Install socat from Darwinports. Launch socat with the following syntax:

socat GOPEN:/dev/ptyp0,ignoreeof TCP:10.0.1.93:10002

(Correct IP and port for whatever you are connecting to). Then configure application to send commands to /dev/ttyp0.