On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Mike Wright writes: > >> Sunday I'll go buy two connectors and wire my own 3-wire null modem >> cable: ground, tx, rx. > > With that, you have to turn hardware flow control off. > > I would also recomment crossing DTR with DSR and CTS, to get hardware flow > control. > >> I'm tending to agree with you that something in >> the cable chain is messed up. > > A gender-changer is NOT the same thing as a null-modem adapter. That's the > most common oversight. If you have something in there that swaps the genders > around, it might be just a straight-through gender-changer. In addition to > changing genders, the right pins need to be crossed, that's what a > null-modem adapter does. > If you need the wiring diagram for a null modem do a web search. Here's one for DB-9 connectors: http://image.pinout.net/pinout_9_pin_files/connector_pinout.php?image=Null-Modem-cable-pin-out.png&pinout=%20Null%20Modem%20cable%20pinout%20-%20rs232%20db-9 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
