| From: | Jonathan Adamczewski |
| Date: | 9 May 2000 at 05:39:48 |
| Subject: | Re: 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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