At 03:52 PM 3/9/97 -0800, you wrote:
>> > An AppleTalk cable?? You mean a LocalTalk cable? you can't use LocalTalk
>> > for anything on NetBSD, right now. Certainly not for serial console..
>> 
>> DOH!  This could be my problem then!  I thought that I'd need a null-modem
>> cable, and that a local talk cable would be what I wanted.  So is a 
>> modem-to-modem or non-"null" serial cable what I want then?  
>
>Try a printer cable. Mac printer cables are wired as null modems
>(printers and macs have the same pinouts; that's why you can use the
>same LocalTalk boxes on a mac and a printer).

you may be using the right cable; a printer cable (as in, male din-8 to
male din-8, like imagewriterII or stylewriter to mac) also works for
networking 2 macs together with localtalk.



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