Re: Firecracker and USB-Serial

[marcus@xxxxxxxxxx (marcus hall)]

In article <isw-CC56BD.20475313102010@[216.168.3.50]>,
isw  <isw@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>So what do you do with a computer, which can be either? And don't forget
>all the pin-swaps...
>
>Isaac

Well, the computer is wired as a DTE and has a male connector.  To connect
to a DCE device, you simply use a straight through Male-Female cable.  If
you want to connect to another DTE device, you use a null-modem Female-Female
cable.  The real trick is how you cross-connect the signals in the null-modem
cable, though, and which signals each DTE asserts when idle and which
signals it expects to start the conversation.

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