Friday, August 01, 2008

No break in MacOS X minicom? No it is the prolific driver

Just when I thought I was going nuts. Couldn't password recover a Cisco switch, then a router. I used to do it on OS X with a Powerbook G4. Now on the intel 10.5 I can't.

Well it turns out it is the prolific driver:

http://blog.curthread.org/posts/macosx/usb_serial_break.html

Fix is rumored to be this driver. Maybe I'll try it, later. Meanwhile I've got linux boxes that will control break.

Later: 2 seconds in a linux VM and ctrl break worked fine.