Serial-to-USB connector?

[Adrian Chapman]

In article <1g257sf.terjde8qc4aN%no_email_address@hotmail.com >, Sara
Garland <no_email_address@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I have a Kyocera 6035 (PalmOS/phone) and want to connect it to a G5 for
> synching. Anyone know how I can do this? I assume I need a serial<->USB
> connector. Is that right? Any recommendations on a specific brand? Do I
> need anything else?

I recently bought a Keyspan USB Serial adaptor so I could access the
console port on my router, and it works very well. Beware of the
Belkin adapator as it doesn't have OSX drivers.

The Keyspan adapator is quite expensive , but I picked one up on ebay.

--
Adrian

"Theory and practice are the same in theory, but different in practice"

[Ben Low]

Adrian Chapman <AdrianChapman@MAPSON.therefuge.co.uk> wrote
...

> The Keyspan adapator is quite expensive , but I picked one up on ebay.

I'm using a no-name interface I bought at the local computer fair
($A35, ~$US20), which turned out to use the FTDI chipset. Works a
treat with the drivers downloaded from the chipset manufacter's site
([url]www.ftdichip.com[/url]).

Even better than the fact that this thing was inexpensive, the support
is pretty damned good: the only trouble I had was with support for the
BREAK "signal", so I sent an email to the FTDI people. A developer
emailed me a new version of the driver (1.0.7) within about a week,
all fixed! How's that for service?

Ben

[Lee Phillips]

On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 15:02:24 GMT, Mathue <mathu/e@spymac.com> did write:

> In article <1g257sf.terjde8qc4aN%no_email_address@hotmail.com >, Sara
> Garland <no_email_address@hotmail.com> wrote:
>

>> I have a Kyocera 6035 (PalmOS/phone) and want to connect it to a G5 for
>> synching. Anyone know how I can do this? I assume I need a serial<->USB
>> connector. Is that right? Any recommendations on a specific brand? Do I
>> need anything else?
>>
>>

>
><http://www.palmone.com/us/support/accessories/usb/palmusb.html>
>
><http://www.keyspan.com/products/usb/USA19W/>
>
><http://www.ramelectronics.net/html/usb_serial.htm>
>

Or the iConcepts, which you can sometimes find pretty cheap:

[url]http://www.lee-phillips.org/info/palm/60446.html[/url]