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cable?

ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
edited 2001-03-05 05:25 in General Discussion
Trying to make this cable is driving me nuts. I've lost count of how
many times this weekend I've wired a cable only to have stampw tell me
it can't find the chip. Can someone help? I have a female db9 connecting
to a male db9 on my pc. At the other end of the cable I have wrapped the
wires around a 14pin wire-wrap socket for insertion into the breadboard.
I have mapped the colored wires to the pins on the male side of the
cable (now cut off from the whole cable) and believe I have db9 pins 2-5
connecting to bs2 pins 1-4. If anyone happens to have this same colored
cable (just a part I picked up at an electonics store cheap) the colors
I'm working with are red, orange, yellow, and green. The only two other
wires are what I believe are pins 6 and 7, colors blue and purple, that
I have twisted together to form the loop back shown in the manual.

Please, try to save what little sanity remains.

TIA

Mike

Comments

  • ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
    edited 2001-03-05 04:56
    I really hate it when I make stupid mistakes.
    Realizing that I have a modem as com1 (which I knew) then I needed to put
    that together with the idea that I have a PDA plugged into a serial port.
    Obviously the remaining port I plugged the cable into must be the unused
    com1. Unplugging the pda and putting the cable into its port and now stampw
    recognizes the chip.

    Mike

    Mike Eggleston wrote:

    > Trying to make this cable is driving me nuts. I've lost count of how
    > many times this weekend I've wired a cable only to have stampw tell me
    > it can't find the chip. Can someone help? I have a female db9 connecting
    > to a male db9 on my pc. At the other end of the cable I have wrapped the
    > wires around a 14pin wire-wrap socket for insertion into the breadboard.
    > I have mapped the colored wires to the pins on the male side of the
    > cable (now cut off from the whole cable) and believe I have db9 pins 2-5
    > connecting to bs2 pins 1-4. If anyone happens to have this same colored
    > cable (just a part I picked up at an electonics store cheap) the colors
    > I'm working with are red, orange, yellow, and green. The only two other
    > wires are what I believe are pins 6 and 7, colors blue and purple, that
    > I have twisted together to form the loop back shown in the manual.
    >
    > Please, try to save what little sanity remains.
    >
    > TIA
    >
    > Mike
    >
    >
    >
    > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
  • ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
    edited 2001-03-05 05:25
    Not as much as I hate broadcasting it first, just to make it sting a bit,
    hope the rest goes OK
    Chris

    Original Message
    From: Mike Eggleston <mikee@m...>
    To: <basicstamps@yahoogroups.com>
    Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 12:56 PM
    Subject: Re: [noparse][[/noparse]basicstamps] cable?


    > I really hate it when I make stupid mistakes.
    > Realizing that I have a modem as com1 (which I knew) then I needed to put
    > that together with the idea that I have a PDA plugged into a serial port.
    > Obviously the remaining port I plugged the cable into must be the unused
    > com1. Unplugging the pda and putting the cable into its port and now
    stampw
    > recognizes the chip.
    >
    > Mike
    >
    > Mike Eggleston wrote:
    >
    > > Trying to make this cable is driving me nuts. I've lost count of how
    > > many times this weekend I've wired a cable only to have stampw tell me
    > > it can't find the chip. Can someone help? I have a female db9 connecting
    > > to a male db9 on my pc. At the other end of the cable I have wrapped the
    > > wires around a 14pin wire-wrap socket for insertion into the breadboard.
    > > I have mapped the colored wires to the pins on the male side of the
    > > cable (now cut off from the whole cable) and believe I have db9 pins 2-5
    > > connecting to bs2 pins 1-4. If anyone happens to have this same colored
    > > cable (just a part I picked up at an electonics store cheap) the colors
    > > I'm working with are red, orange, yellow, and green. The only two other
    > > wires are what I believe are pins 6 and 7, colors blue and purple, that
    > > I have twisted together to form the loop back shown in the manual.
    > >
    > > Please, try to save what little sanity remains.
    > >
    > > TIA
    > >
    > > Mike
    > >
    > >
    > >
    > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to
    http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
    >
    >
    >
    >
    > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
    >
    >
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