[rescue] Serial woes

[Michael S. Schiller]

You could do it the *easy* way, and get a db25<->MMJ adapter from BlackBox  (I
think it's www.blackbox.com) their p/n FA850 (specially for connecting VT300
terminals) as well as an MMJ cable of whatever length (I think 10' is their
shortest). I did this, and it works wonderfully on my SC2000!

-Mike

John Honniball wrote:

> On Wed, 6 Jun 2001 12:22:59 +0100 David Cantrell
> <david at cantrell.org.uk> wrote:
> > I've just tried to get the SS1000 working with the VT320, and no joy with
> > any of the cables I had.
>
> You'd probably need a null modem cable, i.e. one with pins
> 2 and 3 (and the handshake lines) crossed over.  Have you
> tested the VT320 with loop-back (joining pins 2 and 3)?
>
> > I then tried with a laptop and minicom, but as before, the most I managed
> > to get out of it was ...
> >
> > .
> > .
> > .
> > ..
> > .
> > >.
> > ~
>
> That looks like a word length/parity problem to me.  Try
> messing about with the 7bit/8bit and even/odd/none parity
> modes.  Assuming you have the right baud rate, of course.
>
> --
> John Honniball
> Email: John.Honniball at uwe.ac.uk
> University of the West of England
>
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