Dead serial ports?

["A.J." <naijireja@yahoo.com>]

Hi all,

How common is it for an Apple IIGS serial port to be dead?  I tried
hooking up a null cable assembly to a PC, and no matter what settings I
tried (and I did ensure that settings lined up correctly betwen PC and
GS), I couldn't get the machines to communicate.  I'm using a WinXP PC
with HyperTerminal.

For what it's worth, I'm blaming the cable assembly at this point.  I
purchased the following cables and hooked them up together:

Apple serial adapter, with 8-DIN male and DB-9 female connectors
gender changer, with DB-9 male connectors, and
null modem cable, with DB-9 female connectors.

I tried omitting the gender changed and null modem cable and things
still didn't work.
Any ideas?

--naijireja

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