I often use my PowerBook to connect to serial console ports. I use usb-to-serial bridge based on Prolific PL2303 chip. Prolific offers a driver for OS X, but the driver doesn’t supports break signal and if you ever worked with Sun/SPARC hardware you can imagine how it is annoying!
Today i have found alternative driver, written by BJA Electronics - http://sourceforge.net/projects/osx-pl2303/. And it supports break signal!
I was annoyed since 6 months with this stupid not-working-break. I’ve never tought the driver could be the problem… always thought minicom was the problem. THANK YOU!!
Was do you use actually for connecting to solaris systems via console port? Minicom?
Personally i use Zterm (http://homepage.mac.com/dalverson/zterm/ or just “screen /dev/tty.XXXXX”
Thanks for this tip. I was using an older version of the driver and the Break didn’t work. Google pointed me to your site and I tried again. :-)
C-Kermit is my favorite tool for connecting, runs on most every platform, very reliable for console use.