On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Ken Nagorski wrote:

> 	OK, this is probally a dumb question but I have a serial cable
> that totally works if I plug it into wyse terminal. That's actually how I
> did the install. Now, I have this thing at home and I plug a modem into it
> right? It doens't work, I get input output error, now I have tried these
> three things, /dev/ttya, /dev/ttys0, /dev/ttysa. None of them work. Am I
> missing seomthing?

So you have a computer which is DTE (Data Terminal Equipment). You have a
terminal which is also DTE. This works and so means your cable is acting
as a null modem. Your modem is a DCE (Data Communications Equipment) so
you need a straight through cable, not a null modem.

Alex.