[Sussex] DB9 to RJ45 - minicom?

[Ronan Chilvers]

Hi Vic

On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 10:11:07AM +0100, Vic wrote:
> > Anyone know how I go about using a DB9 to RJ45 cable with something like
> > minicom?  Its a standard CISCO rollover cable (one of the blue flat ones)
> 
> You're off to a bad start, I'm afraid.
> 
> That's a standard serial cable. The RJ45 end plugs into the Cisco router,
> which has a standard serial port wired to an RJ45 socket.

Damn!

> 
> There are no magic ethernet-to-serial conversions going on there.

Curses!!

> 
> Your best bet for a laptop would be to get one of the USB-to-serial
> adaptors. The FTDI ones (which are usually the cheap ones!) work very well
> under LInux.

Something like this?

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?CAB-USBSER

Cheers
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Ronan
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