On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 12:30:10PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 05:20:23PM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: > > On Sun, 4 May 2008, Celejar wrote:
Serious typo: > I used-to-would-have said that any computer store should have a 9-pin > serial gender-changer but that may not be true anymore. If your local > store doesn't have one, you have a couple of options: > > 1. See if there is one on ebay and get it with the adapter. > > 2. Order one from your computer store: they are still made: > Belkin or Startech should have them. > > 3. If you know someone who can get a male and a female and a shell, > they can solder one together for your. That should be two females. A male and a female with a stright-through is called an extension cord. :) You need two females to accept the male braille and the male computer. > There are no electronics in a gender-changer so you don't need to worry > about compatibility. For details, you can checkout the serial-HOWTO (in > the doc-linux-[html] package, or on the ldp website. > > Good luck. > > Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
