On Wednesday, July 9, 2003, at 10:39  PM, barrie wrote:

> Can I assume the wires are OK because the same cable was used 
> successfully
> on the old serial port?
>
> Barrie'

Hmm, that might be a factor. I was never sure that the cable wasn't the 
problem with my setup, because the IBM adapter I used was different 
from the pinouts on a Radio Shack adapter...I think the 2 and the 9 or 
something like that. Anyhow, one mapped to ground the other mapped to 
something else. It was hard to know which was correct, even when 
comparing to some RS232 pages I had.

You definitely need what's called a "straight through" cable I think. 
Not one set up for a printer for instance.

Robert