I know it's a long time since I've done this, but shouldn't there be an earth 
on pin 5 as well???

Steve

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:41:11 +0000
"Poul-Henning Kamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Maas writes:
> 
> >I rewired the cable and it works:
> >
> >RxD 2 ------------------- 3 TxD
> >TxD 3 ------------------- 2 RxD
> >
> >DTR 4 ------------------- 6 DSR
> >DSR 6 ------------------- 4 DTR
> >
> >RTS 7                     7 RTS
> > |                           |
> >CTS 8                     8 CTS
> > |                           |
> >DCD 1                     1 DCD
> 
> The traditional way is slightly different:
> 
>       TXD--RXD
> 
>       RXD--TXD
> 
>       DCD--DTR
>         DSR/
> 
>       DTR--DCD
>           \DSR
> 
>       RTS  RTS
>        |    |
>       CTS  CTS
> 
> The advantage being, that you don't trigger carrier loss if there
> is hardware flow-control involved on either side.
> 
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