Re: Testing a serial port

[Jim <jim@magrathea.plus.com>]

On 2007-09-06, schmidtd <schmidtd@my-deja.com> wrote:
> On Sep 6, 8:16 am, Jim <j...@magrathea.plus.com> wrote:
>> The card itself has a 25-way D on the end of a ribbon cable - no way of
>> telling exactly how it's wired, sadly.
> Ah, not so sad.  It's most likely wired as a standard DTE or DCE.  You
> just need to test with a null modem and without, checking standard
> baud rates.  Just hope the switch settings you start out with don't
> choose 50 baud on the card...  What was I saying about permutations
> again?  Seems there are still quite a few.

Well, the good thing about baud rates is that you tend to get something
through even when they're wrong. Ok, it'll be garbage, but it proves that
something is being sent. After that it's a process of illimination. And
coffee.

Lots and lots of coffee.

Many thanks.

Jim
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