Re: Serial console on IPX (Was: Sparc serial port pinout?)
> Okay, following reccomendations and my own best guessing I went out and
> purchased a 'Mac to serial printer' cable and a null-modem adapter.
Ooh, that sounds like a bad combo to me. A null modem should twist the
send and receive lines so that the send from one machine goes to the receive
of the other. If your Mac cable is designed to go to a printer with a
standard RS232 port, then it probably already does that twist, and attaching
another null modem adapter to it does a double twist, putting you back
with send going to send, and receive going to receive. That's a combination
that's guaranteed to fail.
The simplest way to make sure you have the right cabling is to make your
own cables!
Eric
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