How do I connect to this from another PC?

What sort of cable do I need? Network cable or crossover?

I've got serial 9pin convertor which I can plug into serial port of PC.
Tried using hyperterm on COM1 but no joy....

Am I missing something?

BertieBigBollox@gmail.com wrote:
> How do I connect to this from another PC?
>
> What sort of cable do I need? Network cable or crossover?
>
> I've got serial 9pin convertor which I can plug into serial port of PC.
> Tried using hyperterm on COM1 but no joy....
>
> Am I missing something?

The cable should be a crossover, and your settings should be 8-N-1,
9600 should work fine. If you have other machines around, test on
those so you can determine if your setup works with other boxes. I
always forget how flow control needs to be set, but try them and save
your config when it works

patrick

On Nov 6, 5:03 pm, pbeckh...@gmail.com wrote:
> BertieBigBol...@gmail.com wrote:
> > How do I connect to this from another PC?
>
> > What sort of cable do I need? Network cable or crossover?
>
> > I've got serial 9pin convertor which I can plug into serial port of PC.
> > Tried using hyperterm on COM1 but no joy....
>
> > Am I missing something?The cable should be a crossover, and your settings should be 8-N-1,
> 9600 should work fine. If you have other machines around, test on
> those so you can determine if your setup works with other boxes. I
> always forget how flow control needs to be set, but try them and save
> your config when it works
>
> patrick

Crossover? I always get confused - is this 'normal' RJ45 network lead?

> BertieBigBollox@gmail.com wrote:
> > How do I connect to this from another PC?
> >
> > What sort of cable do I need? Network cable or crossover?
> >
> > I've got serial 9pin convertor which I can plug into serial port of PC.
> > Tried using hyperterm on COM1 but no joy....

If you have the DE-9F to RJ-45 adapter that Sun supplies (530-3100-xx)
you just use a standard straight through network cable. If you need the
pinouts to make one of these I have them at work. Hyperterminal works
fine for me in this application.

David Wilson wrote:

> If you have the DE-9F to RJ-45 adapter that Sun supplies (530-3100-xx)
> you just use a standard straight through network cable. If you need the


.... and if not, you need a rollover (not crossover) cable, like the one for
Cisco console ports.

Regards

fw