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 ...

So, i've gone through two cheap usb to serial adaptors that only work via windows 7 in vmware fusion, even though one of them did have OS X drivers - nothing showed up in /dev/tty*. I would really ...