Subject: Re: Qube2 serial console from Quadra 800 (mac68k)
To: None <remi_zara@mac.com>
From: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
List: port-cobalt
Date: 06/10/2007 02:10:36 
remi_zara@mac.com wrote:

> I used a cable I had from an old modem, with a DB9 end and a DIN8 end  
> to connect the two machines.

You need a cross (null-modem) cable.
See "NetBSD Serial Port Primer" page:
http://www.netbsd.org/docs/Hardware/Misc/serial.html
for details. (though there is no DB9-DIN8 null modem pinout)
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Izumi Tsutsui