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. > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
