[Info-vax] USB/DB9 terminal converter for RX2660

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2016-06-07 kl. 20:59, skrev Simon Clubley:
> On 2016-06-06, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
>> Den 2016-06-06 kl. 20:45, skrev Simon Clubley:
>>> On 2016-06-06, Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> It also made little sense in a newsreader which can usually present
>>>> quoted-pukeable in a readable format. :(
>>>>
>>>> Was the diagram composed using a proportional font, I wonder?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes it appears to have been. I took a quick look at the post using
>>> Google Groups and more of it aligns up than when using a character cell
>>> reader.
>>>
>>
>> Here is my guess of what it should have looked like
>> usig fixed font ans shorter total lines.
>>
>> _________      ______     _______     ________
>> |       |      |    |     |     |     |      |
>> |       |      |    |     |     |     |      |
>> |rx2660 |      |USB |     |DB9  |     |      |
>> |USB    | <->  |DB9 | <-> |USB  | <-> |Silex |<->  To Mac
>> |       |      |?   |     |Key  |     |USB   |   via network
>> |       |      |    |     |span |     |      |
>> ---------      ------     -------     --------
>>
>
> Thanks. _Now_ I can see what he's trying to do. (I think. :-))
>
> So if Rob's interfacing via a DB9, anything to the right of the DB9
> nearest to the rx2660 doesn't matter as far as VMS is concerned.
>
> What he would need is for one of the various serial port USB protocols
> to be supported both at the rx2660 console level and in VMS itself.
> That would be either one of the closed specifications such as the
> PL-2303 or FTDI protocols or the open USB CDC ACM protocol.
>
> As for whether they are supported I don't know because I've never
> used one of those boxes.
>
> Simon.
>

I think someone else wrote that the USB port on the rx2660 can
*never* be used for console work. The options are either the
serial RS232 port or the RJ45 network (iLO) port.