| From: | Jonathan Adamczewski |
| Date: | 9 May 2000 at 12:01:44 |
| Subject: | Re: well? |
Don't beat yourself up over off topic posting... Keep it in mind for the
future (if you had said that you'd just installed 3.5, the nthat makes
it on topic ;) Hopefully things you can sort things out. You likely
haven't killed anything (thanks Colin) so it may just be a cable
issue.
Jonathan.
On Mon, 8 May 2000, tesla wrote:
> Jonathan:
>
> Thank you for pointing out the obvious, and still replying to my message.
> You made some points I had not thought of.
>
> I apologize to all concerened for sending this message to list, I didn't
> think about the list being only about 3.5 when I sent it.
>
> Tesla
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jonathan Adamczewski" <jadamcze@utas.edu.au>
> To: <amigaOS3_5@egroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 11:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [amigaOS3_5] well?
>
>
> > On Mon, 8 May 2000, tesla wrote:
> >
> > > Hello all.
> > > I have another hopefully simple question.
> > >
> > > I am trying to use a program called Linkit, to serially connect my
> amiga to
> > > my pc. I have used it before with great success, but not, it will not
> work.
> > > I believe that it doesn't work because i'm no longer using the original
> > > cable. I think the only difference between it, and a standard serial
> cable
> > > is that the LinkIt cable was a null modem cable, and probably had some
> > > power lines not connected on the Amiga side, because of the non-standard
> > > pin-out of the Amiga's serial port.
> >
> > Oops.
> >
> > 1. The amiga's serial port is is really pretty standard (at least no
> > _real_ concerns)
> > 2. There is a big difference between a null modem and a standard (ie
> > straight through) serial cable.
> >
> > If you've connected two systems together with a straight through cable,
> > you _may_ have fried something (it's one of the few things I've never done
> > so I'm not exactly sure).
> >
> > Does the serial port work otherwise? (ie modem, pc mouse, anything... ?)
> >
> > >
> > > I have tried a null modem cable, but to no avail. Anyone know the pinout
> of
> > > the 3000 Tower for the serial port?
> >
> > A null modem cable should do the trick (don't see why not, but that's
> > ignorance for ya) For pinouts, off the top of my head, TwinExpress from
> > aminet has all null modem pinouts in the archive. (and the amiga and pc
> > have the same pinouts, just different connectors in some cases.)
> >
> > It may be that the software uses a different type of cable.
> >
> > Why was this posted to a 3.5 mailing list? It is not related...
> >
> >
> > Jonathan.
> >
> >
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