From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 22 12:12:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from vaview5.vavu.vt.edu (vaview5.vavu.vt.edu [198.82.158.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B42A414D82 for ; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 12:12:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dglynn@vaview5.vavu.vt.edu) Received: from vaview5.vavu.vt.edu (vaview5.vavu.vt.edu [198.82.158.16]) by vaview5.vavu.vt.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA18488; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 15:10:38 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dglynn@vaview5.vavu.vt.edu) Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 15:10:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Greg Lynn To: David Gilbert Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Always check serial cables!! In-Reply-To: <14231.23083.858159.574338@trooper.velocet.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Actually, there are 10 pins on the motherboard and 9 pins used for > serial communications. I have in my office expamples of 6 different > serial cables --- all plug compatible, but wired differently. > > Dave. Right. It would make sence for mb manufactures to possibly document how they have the pins laid out - or give what standard they are using. My case was that I put a different cable on io-1 and so it didn't work. -Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message