[PLUG] (serial) terminal condition

[Derek Loree]

On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 15:26, Jeme A Brelin wrote:
> On 20 Nov 2002, Russell Senior wrote:
> > a) I once had trouble talking to a device, I think it was a Cisco 675,
> >    until I turned _off_ all flow control (hard and soft);
> 
> That's the one flow control setting I have NOT tried...
> 
> > b) maybe you aren't supposed to cross transmit and receive (i.e.,
> >    whatever document you are looking at didn't intend you to).
> 
> Well, according to the manual, pin 1 of the RJ45 is transmit and labelled
> as "Output".  This tells me that it's not the pin to be wired TO a
> transmit on the far end, but to a receive.  Hopefully that's the correct
> interpretation.
> 
> I suppose there's a chance I wired the whole thing completely
> backward...  oh hell.
> 
> Any more suggestions?

Don't depend on the auto sense to determine baud rate, try setting it
manually, some of those things NEED to have only one baud rate set, all
other baud rates can confuse both ends of the connection.

Derek