USB Serial Adapters

No idea. But if you go to the System Profiler and look for the USB device it should tell you what the chipset is (alas, a company like Belkin probably had the vendor and product ID written with their own data). Then you search for a third party drive.

At least that is how I managed to get drivers for my no-name unit.

After some further investigation, it looks like it is only supported on OS X under Classic mode. Guess I will have to install a Classic environment...

I think that the iogear USB->serial adapter works under x in native mode

On NewtonTalk consensus seemed to be that the Keyspan one works.

out of curiosity wat are u gonna do for comm software under os x?

3rd party Newton Sync utilities have been made for Mac OS X. (if that's what you mean, gobabushka)

Check out http://www.pure-mac.com/handhelds.html for a few options for comm software.

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Have you considered using ethernet instead of USB->serial adapter?

I have considered Ethernet but I have never been able to get a Newton compatible PCMCIA ethernet card... Would be much easier though.

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I have considered Ethernet but I have never been able to get a Newton compatible PCMCIA ethernet card... Would be much easier though.

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The 3Com 3C589 is as common as dirt and you should be able to get one on eBay for about £5. In fact all of the Newton-compatible ethernet NICs look pretty commonplace.

It's infuriating how you never have all the bits you need to do something cool like getting a Newton online though - I found one of those 3com cards ages ago (it was in that dead ThinkPad that I got given), but the little dongle for turning the flat connection on it into a normal connection doesn't seem to work, and I also really need a Newt power adapter as the batteries I put in it died pretty quickly, and the backup battery in is dead too! > I'd probably never be able to work out how to get it online anyway, even if I had all the bits

Bit of an update...

Just secured on eBay a working 3Com 3C589D PCMCIA Ethernet Adapter.

I already have one of these (with a busted up dongle) and this one comes with 2 working dongles so with any luck I will end up with 2 working setups.

According to this page these cards should work with my Newton 2100. Does anyone else have specific experience with this card on a Newton? Will it work on a 120 (OS 2.0) or am I being a tad optimistic?

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Work for what?

Web browsers might 'work', but I doubt they'd be pleasant...

Work for what?
Web browsers might 'work', but I doubt they'd be pleasant...

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Mainly for installing software onto the Newton from my PowerBook G4 running 10.4.

Hi All,
In my ongoing mission to get my Newton 2100 talking to my PowerBook G4 (running 10.4 no Classic), I purchased a second-hand Belkin USB Serial Adapter (F5U114-MAC). It is the one with two DIN-8 ports. Now it appears Belkin have 8.6 and 9.x drivers, does anyone know if they have OS X drivers?

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I can definitively tell you that the Belkin adapter does not have any OS X drivers...I shelled out the $$$ before OSX for one, and I was fairly upset when they never supported it. I later shelled out the bucks for a Keyspan adapter, and their support has been very good.

Ever consider wireless? 802.11b cards are dirt cheap too nowadays, and there are drivers

Work for what?Web browsers might 'work', but I doubt they'd be pleasant...

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There's always StarTTY. Or use a terminal emulator and go straight into the OS X command line from your Newt. Or into lynx.

i have only just been thinking about such things..

so if these things need drivers, then any chance of getting one of these serial adapters to work on a ibook running linux is pretty much not going to happen then?

hmm.. shame..