i'm trying to buy a USB to RS-232 adapter for use with my M1 Mac Mini, but this is turning out to be a lot more complicated than i thought it would be. the most common devices seem to be based on ...

What I'm getting in my terminal window contains some correct characters, but mostly gibberish. The appearance of some correct characters means I'm connected, but clearly I've set something incorrectly ...

For years I have been wondering when Cisco would activate the USB ports on their devices. I have been hoping for all kinds of USB functionality to routers, switches, firewalls but Cisco has been slow ...