[Soekris] Problems communicating with my Soekris 4521

The Fungi fungi at yuggoth.org
Tue Dec 19 02:58:22 UTC 2006


On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 09:35:04PM -0500, Tim Ogilvie wrote:
[...]
> what kind of cable do I use to hook up my PC to the
> soekris?
[...]

You need a serial null-modem cable, or a serial cable with a
null-modem adaptor plugged into it. Right now you're connecting the
transmit pins to each other, and the receive pins to each other.
With a null-modem, you will have transmit connected to receive and
vice versa.
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