An update on that HP system. It seems the pinout I had for the console cable is completely off. :) (Great!) I did manage to find the send and receive pins and get those plugged in, so I have a console connection. Anyway, the point of this is -- nobody use that last pinout. I got an offer before from somebody who has one of these, and was willing to check how the cable works. I will try to obtain a complete, corrected pinout. ;) Regards, Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '