Hi,

> I solded a Mini-DIN8 to SUBD-9 cable. I did a nullmodem
> (taking SGI's manual to connect to a PC serial device, then
> applying some line swapping for a SUBD-9 to SUBD-9 nullmodem.
>
> But strange: This does not work. If a add another "swapper"
> to the cable, thus reversing some lines again, the serial console works.

The SGI won't be using hardware flow control (if it did, it'd basically
lock up when the kernel message buffer fills up; that's something I have
to fix on i386 and Amiga, for starters), so it's usually easiest to just
wire the handshaking on the 9 pin end to provide signals to itself. So
that would mean wiring pins 1, 4, and 6 together.

John Klos