Keyspan, USA-19HS USB to Serial device

Keyspan

Keyspan USB to Serial product USA-19HS

WHERE to BUY: Keyspan supports online and retail

OTHER PLATFORMS KNOWN TO WORK UNDER SOLARIS:

TESTED PLATFORM:

KNOWN ISSUES:

PACKAGES:

1) Solaris 10 Sparc - SUNWuksp (/kernel/drv/sparcv9/usbsksp 64-bit SPARC ELF kernel module) 2) Solaris 10 x86 - SUNWuksp (/kernel/drv/usbsksp 32-bit x86 ELF kernel module) 3) Solaris 10 x64 - SUNWuksp (/kernel/drv/amd64/usbsksp 64-bit x86 ELF kernel module)

INSTALLATION

1) Solaris 10 Sparc Install Solaris 10 Update 2 OR Solaris Express build dated 2/2006 (and later) 2) Solaris 10 x86/x64 Install Solaris 10 Update 2 OR Solaris Express build dated 2/2006 (and later)

USAGE:

How to run 'tip' to connect from Solaris machines to target system through the KeySpan USB to Serial device

The usual case in which tip line is needed is:
You want to use machine A to diagnose machine B, but there are no serial ports on A.
You can follow the following steps to set up tip line between A and B.

1. plug a usb2serial adapter to machine A's usb port.

2. connect a serial cable to the usb2serial adapter and the other end of it to machine B

3. run the following command on machine B and then reboot.
# eeprom input-device=ttya
# eeprom output-device=ttya

4. Add the following lines to /etc/remote on machine A.
u0:\
:dv=/dev/cua/0:br#9600:el=^C^S^Q^U^D:ie=%$:oe=^D:

5. Then run tip command on machine A:
# tip u0

6. To stop the tip operation, type "~."

REFERENCES:

http://www.sun.com/io_technologies/usb/USB-Faq.html
Also check the man pages: tip(1), usbser_edge(7D), usbsprl(7D), usbsksp(7D)

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