Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!hardy From: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: using tip Message-ID: Date: 5 Mar 91 15:27:25 GMT References: <1163@tokio.cs.utexas.edu> <1991Mar4.200209.6621@news.cs.indiana.edu> <6861@idunno.Princeton.EDU> Distribution: usa Organization: U.C.Irvine, Dept. of Physics Lines: 30 Nntp-Posting-Host: golem.ps.uci.edu In-reply-to: nmk@onion.princeton.edu's message of 5 Mar 91 04:49:31 GMT In article <6861@idunno.Princeton.EDU> nmk@onion.princeton.edu (Nick Katz) writes: Organization: Princeton University Mathematics Department Lines: 16 I just upgraded my cube to 040, and everything works fine except that the mac plus which is connected to serial b on the cube by a macplus-to-imagewriter II cable, and which used to converse happily as a terminal using versaterm pro on the mac, now gets no response from the next. I have a zoom modem on serial a on the cube, and it continues to work fine with its cable. I even tried "testing" serial b by making it the port the modem was connected to, and that worked. I also tried connecting the mac to serial a, but with no success. I guess the new pinouts on the 040 board for serial ports "broke" the cable I was using, but I would have expected the modem connection to break also. Is it time to call NextConnection and get a new cable? Has anyone else experienced a similar problem with 040 breaking the connection to a terminal? Any help will be most welcome. Nick Katz nmk@math.princeton.edu Have you tried using kermit? Or making the serial port act as an alternate console ( get a getty?). The latter can be done if you go into manual boot and invoke the p (parameters) option. Best regards (we met in Bures many years ago), Hardy -------****------- Meinhard E. Mayer (Prof.) Department of Physics, University of California Irvine CA 92717;(714) 856 5543; hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu or MMAYER@UCI.BITNET