Name this cable!

[John8520]

I've had this 9pin - 25pin cable around for ages, and I always thought it was a 9pin - 25pin serial cable. Problem is, it never seemed to work any time I used it, I always figured there was a software problem. So tonight I broke out the multimeter, and tested away. Aparently its not even close to a serial cable, I've never seen one like it.

Here's the pinout I made of it - http://john8520.homeunix.org:8888/files/cable.txt

Thoughts on as to what it might be?

 

[John8520]

Heh, well, I feel like a moron!

It is a serial cable, the site I was looking at must have had bad pinouts... [:I] ]'>

 

[IPNixon]

I know...

It's a serial cable!

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[MultiFinder]

I know...
It's a serial cable!

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No it's not! It's a serial cable! Duh!

 

[IPNixon]

Really?

I thought it was a serial cable...

:-/

 

[Bunsen]

It's a hat?

 

[John8520]

Nope, its a serial adatper cable!

I also found out that if I link it with two of my 25pin - RJ45 adapters (with an ethernet cable in the middle) I get a null modem cable!

So right now I have it sitting by my iMac, and I'm terminaled into my linux machine. It works quite well, but it seems that irssi and nano don't work...

 

[MultiFinder]

It's a hat?

FEETS!!!!!

 

[The Macster]

Awards for first mentions of Hats and Feets on the new forum go to Bunsen and MultiFinder17 respectively

 

[MultiFinder]

Awards for first mentions of Hats and Feets on the new forum go to Bunsen and MultiFinder17 respectively

:O Really? It was the first?

Phooey, I wanted to let one of the older guys take that honour...