[SunRescue] LX serial port

[Dave McGuire]

On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Matthew Haas wrote:
>Quick question.. the 25-pin serial port on the back of the SPARCstation
>LX.. I noticed in the manual that one can attach a special "Y" cable to it
>allowed the one port to be a host for 2. 

  Yup.

>Incidentally, I do not have such a cable, and am currently trying to hook
>in an external modem using a plain old serial cable direct from the back
>of the modem to the back of the LX. Will this work? Is the serial port
>standard?

  Yes, it will work fine.

>I have yet been unable to get the modem responding properly.. I know the
>modem works, I've used it successfully on my SPARCstation 2 with its two
>separate serial ports.

  This isn't due to the A/B nature of the port...

               -Dave McGuire