I just got my Belkin USB->Serial going last week and was able to talk to my
embedded system as well, but I have a quirk with I was wondering if you see.
The serial console on my embedded system is only 9600, and for some reason it
seems that when I pull up minicom, even though it is set to 9600, I have to
change it to a higher speed, then kick it back down to 9600 and it works fine.
Before that I get garbage on the screen, and think it's initially set to the
wrong speed (I'll have to dig through the Belkin code and see if it
initializes to something else).
I normally cross-comile on an i686 box running Debian (ppc 823 target), but
I'm happy to be able to use my PowerBook to do it, I'm a road warrior now!
Most of my colleagues think I'm sacrilege for running a non-Apple OS on it,
but they'll get over it, I know that I have already!<roar!>