Subject: Re: Good news
From: Adam Elkins (LinuxRobot@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Feb 14 2002 - 17:41:07 AKST
This is correct. And I agree, I'm quick to cause confusion....
[pc-female9][male9---cable---female9][adapter][male25--robot]
OR;
[pc-female9][adapter][male25--robot]
Hope thse ASCII diagrams help.....I'm gonna stop by RadioShack on the way
tomorrow....
Adam
On Thursday 14 February 2002 04:56 pm, Justin Dieters wrote:
> hmmmmm... serial connections on the back of a computer are typically
> male (both the 9- and 25-pin varieties), so the adapter cable would need
> to be female on the 9-pin end and male on the 25-pin end - at least that
> is my guess at your situation - please fix if i'm wrong..
>
> [computer-male9][female9---cable---male25][female25-robot]
>
> On the other hand, we are probably worrying way to much about this.. i'm
> sure if a couple people each brought a couple various adapters, we could
> figure out the connetion we need.. :)
>
> Justin
> enderak@yahoo.com
>
> Adam Elkins wrote:
> > By God Jim, I'm a newbie, not a doctor. Seriously though, I don't know
> > the diffrence in all thses things....All I know is I need a device to
> > convert my robot cable, a 25pin Male, to a 9pin Male....If thats what you
> > got, bring it. - )
> >
> >
> >
> > Adam.
> >
> > On Thursday 14 February 2002 04:19 pm, Jim Gribbin wrote:
> >>Adam,
> >>
> >>Don't you mean DB25 pin x DB9 socket? That's what I'm going to throw in
> >>my car anyway.
> >>
> >>Jim Gribbin
> >>
> >>On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 00:05, Adam Elkins wrote:
> >>>Good news guys, I got Red Hat working properly(Kind of, when I go to
> >>>mount the cdrom, it says "/mnt/cdrom is not a valid block device" What
> >>>does that mean?:??) finally.
> >>>I also got xdosemu working, and according to the doc's on it, it ports
> >>>well. All I need now, is a male to male serial adapter. (25 pin to 9
> >>> pin) If anyone has on of these, please bing it to apu friday. I will
> >>> have my robot there to test this. If it works, I'd like to set it up
> >>> where I can log in from any linux box and control the robot. I plan to
> >>> have it loading cdroms, so if I ever need anything I forgot, I just log
> >>> in, and load the cd, and get the files I need. (If this isn't possible,
> >>> please let me know)
> >>>
> >>>Thanks,
> >>>
> >>>Adam
> >>>
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