Re: Serial console on IPX (Was: Sparc serial port pinout?)
On Sun, 7 Nov 1999 sharkey@ale.physics.sunysb.edu wrote:
> > 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.
I'll try a straight-through as soon as I can get one. Either that or I'll
move the IPX closer to the Lintel and just use a sex changer.
>
> The simplest way to make sure you have the right cabling is to make your
> own cables!
I have a tendency to mess up my own cables, alas. :/
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