19 Aug
2011
19 Aug
'11
9:09 a.m.
--- On Fri, 8/19/11, Rob Jarratt <robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com> wrote:
I tried 9600 as well without any
luck. I think it is the cable, I *always*
have trouble with serial cables. At the moment I have a
cable with pins 2
and 3 crossed over and pins 7 and 8 on the PC side shorted
together. I may
have to crack open my breakout box to sort this out.
Which serial port are you using? The Ultra 5 has two, and the A port is a
DB25 (which is what the console will default to). The pin layout of a 9 pin
PC port is different - the functions of pins 2 and 3 are swapped. So, you
should actually have pin 2 on the Sun's 25 pin port connected to pin 2 of
the PC's 9 pin port - the same with pin 3.
-Ian