- To test a serial port in MAC OSX first download the free CoolTerm application
- Open Cool Term and click options.
- In the port dropdown Brainboxes Serial ports appear with the name 'cu.usbserial-randomcharacters'
- Select the port to test with default settings.
- Press 'Connect' on cool term.
- Put a loop-back on the Connector of the device under test, for an RS232 serial port this can be performed by shorting pins 2 and 3. See this faq for more info
- type into the CoolTerm console, the characters should appear on the screen
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This FAQ Applies to the following Brainboxes Product Ranges:
Setting up a Serial Console in Mac OS X. One of two things is generally meant by this, either using a Mac as the interface to a serial device (accomplished. Mac OS X and most Linux distributions by default include the SSH client OpenSSH. To connect to the serial console for an instance using OpenSSH on Mac OS X or Linux. The Mac OS X built-in VNC client, Screen Sharing.app does not work with VNC console connections in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.