2 Oct
2007
2 Oct
'07
1:15 p.m.
On Tuesday 02 October 2007, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
Liam Proven wrote:
Making an MMJ cable is a piece of cake. Just take the retention clip
off of the RJ11 at the end of a phone cord. Crimp an RJ45 on the
other end with the proper wires heading to the proper pins, and use a
Cisco RJ45->DE9 adapter.
If you're using the right Cisco adapter on the other end
(labelled "Terminal" usually, but not "Modem", basically any DB25 or
DE9 adapter that's got a female end), you shouldn't need to recrimp the
other end. Just shove the RJ11 into the adapter and
the 'ez-disconnect' end into the MMJ jack. (This assumes that the
phone cable is properly wired as a "roll-over" cable, with the wires on
either end being in the opposite order, and that you've got at least 4
pins wired on the cable. Just 2 pins wired, and all you'll do is wire
the grounds together. :)
Pat
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If you
don't find one, you can still use a MMJ serial
cable/console to boot it.
I don't own a serial terminal. I'd have to try to make a cable and
hook it to a PC and use a terminal emulator. Yet more complexity!