[Duo2400] Re: weird serial port on duo 280c

[Art Rice]

I am using a USR 56K Sportster modem with my Duo
2300c. I had to make a custom cable as described on
the 3Com support site. Here is the address to the
page:
http://www.usr.com/support/docs-template.asp?prod=s-mac
There is a link to hardware handshaking cable there. 
What are you trying to connect to using your serial
port on the 280c? Maybe more information about your
setup would get more responses. Good Luck!

Art in Silicon Valley 

--- nathan <nathan at incirlik.net> wrote:
> 
>  I run FreePPP under OS 7.6.1 on my 280c connecting
> to a 56k US Robotics
> modem with no problems. Albeit even with iCab 2.9.8
> for 68k I had to specify
> at least 2 DNS entries for my ISP..
> 
> HTH,
> -nathan
> 
> 
> On 7/10/04 9:15 AM, "Samual Acorn"
> <sam_acorn at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > as a PC user the standard (and always the same)
> 9pin
> > RS232 port on a PC is 'normal' to me.. but the
> port on
> > this mac... thats a different story... according
> to a
> > document i found on the web pins 1 & 2 should be
> > hardware handshake... but on this 280c they dont
> seem
> > to work.. is this true? or have i got a flaky
> driver?
> > (i cant get the port to open in 'hardware
> handshake'
> > mode) i read somewhere that the 128K and 512K (i
> think
> > thats the right number) macs had their HSKo pin
> held
> > high by tying it through a resistor to the
> powersupply
> > (cute). i dont mean to offend any mac users but
> apple
> > would have done well to be consistant with their
> > design (in other words they should have -all-
> > supported hardware handshake .. either that or
> have
> > never supported it at all)
> > thank you
> > 
> > --sam
> > 



		
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