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From: ron minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Anyone awake?
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Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 22:16:33 -0600
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On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, boyd, rounin wrote:

> > Since the cable is DB25, I'm lookin' at using my
> > parallel port. Is that even possible, to simulate a serial
> > console over the parallel?
>
> this doesn't sound very plausible, but you never know.

it's doable but you don't want to do it.

Get yerself from radio whack the standard serial db25/db9. Figure out how
things are wired, and in general you're safing doing the usual:
swap 2&3
pass 7 through

Then you take your mac db9->db25 and your db25->db9 and you should be
good.

If modem controls seem like they're causing trouble let me know, there's a
standard list of pins you tie together.

ron