Hi Morgan,
This seems to the pretty old story with the serial connection.
What you definitely should check is that the Tx on your PC side (connector)
is routed to the Rx !! of the Newt Mini-DIN connector. That means you need
exactly one crossover.
I gues that you now have two crossovers (one in each of your cables) which
undo the crossover in fact, so you try to connect Tx to Tx and Rx to Rx...
Johannes
> -----Original Message-----
> [mailto:newtontalk-bounce_at_newtontalk.net]On Behalf Of Morgan Nichol
> Subject: [NTLK] Please help me with DIY serial cable...
> Hola, so my MP2k arrives, still in its original box, and with a bunch
> of cables, but none that'll connect to my PC (contrary to what the
> advert said), I flounder for a minute, then decide to build my own.
> I've gone a slightly different route from most people who've put up
> instructions on the web, and I expect this will turn out to be the
> cause of my problems... Rather than build a male din8 to female db9,
> I've build a female din8 to female db9, this allows me to plug the
> original newton -> mac cable into my adapter... I've followed all
> the pinouts as accurately as I could... But still no joy.
SNIP
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