Re: Super Serial Card Question?

["General_Failure" <tristan.mumford@gmail.com>]

General_Failure wrote:
>> What I am confused about is this:
>> Will the female D25 function as a standard female D25. And if it does,
>> is this in normal mode or terminal mode?

Mike T. Wrote:
> I'm not quite sure what you are asking. Whatever you
> do, you should
> verify the pins are as required at the final ends which
> connect to the
>serial ports. For more serial info,

I have it mostly figured now. I think. In terminal mode, the female D25
functions as a standard D25 female. Ie a terminal, as its name implies.

I got confused because the pin assignments change when the card is
swapped between terminal and normal modes.

Thanks for the links. Much appreciated.

I've only ever found pinouts for the standard female-female null-modem
cables.
Something in my mind keeps telling me that the pinouts are identical
for a M-M as an F-F cable, but could someone confirm that for me?

One last thing for this post. I made a straight-through cable up last
night for connecting the apple | c64 | 386 notebook to the Debian box.
I highly doubted that it would work, as I estimated the length
somewhere between 8 and 9 metres.
It worked perfectly with the apple @ 19200bps.
The only problem I had is the standard problem I have with serial
cables. I have to plug it in after both PCs are on, or else one of them
will not power up.