[SWLUG] Responses

[Foeh Mannay]

Hi,

I've built leads in the past to allow me to connect stuff to my psion 5  
using the provided serial cable. As Justin says, the cable Psion  
provide is gendered and pinned out to talk to a PC's serial port (a la  
null modem) and so you will need to buy or build a crossover & gender  
changer module. It's simple enough to build one with a couple of quid  
worth of maplin bits (2 x male Ds and some wire & solder) and some info  
from the Internet. I use my psion and the cable I built all the time to  
do small configuration jobs on routers and switches.

That should allow your 5mx to physically talk to the Garmin - whether  
you can make it do anything useful with the information is another  
matter - if the protocol is even documented.

Foeh

On 07/01/04 15:21:14, Justin Mitchell wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 14:52, andrew sprott wrote:
> > > > I have a Psion serial cable and a Garmin Serial cable, but I
> don't know if
> > > > I can simply connect them straight through pin per pin.
> > >
> > >There are two genders of rs232, as well as and seperate to the two
> sexes
> > >of connector used, but theres no easy way to tell exactly which
> each end
> > >is really without trying it.
> >
> > The Psion specs say it's a rs232 serial port. But your right the
> cable could
> > crossed over.
> 
> Well, a little logical thought about it:
> 
> The cables for both devices will be designed to plug into a PC
> Therefore they will both be the same gender and sex
> Therefore you WILL* need a null-modem connector
> 
> * No guarantees tho ;)
> 
> 
> 
> 
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