> Here is the issue we dont know what mac he is using.
>
> there are now 5 distinct genertions of mac
> 68k macs
> NuBus Power PC macs
> PCI Power Mac
> AGP Power Mac 2nd rev and later G4s
> now PCI-E Power mac G5
>
> Assuming he had a PCI power mac or newer he could then get a network
> card that uses the DEC/Intel 1024 chipset and it would work just fine.
>
> What he needs to find is some old mac PHONENET adpaters they would
> plug in the the serial then use phone cord and plug into a 2nd apater
> where i seend them in stanard PC 9 pin format. the phone net
> adapters handle the crossing of the signal use to b be the way to
> network macs with printers and other macs back in the day.
This is the problem I've got. Eeeeek! I want a serial console. I've got
a PCI PowerMac. I can do the serial out, I think, but I have to get the
right kind of cabling to from the Mac to a PC. I had thought that it was
as simple as taking my RJ-11 phone cord and hooking it up between both
internal modems on the mac side and the pc side. But noooooo...this
thread should die! :-) It's just tough, and next to impossible. I found
a place on the net, I think it takes the minidin[8-9] and turns it into
rs232...$15 or so...I just gotta order it. See if it works.
I need a serial console since my PowerMac with its Non-Standard Voodoo3
card doesn't produce console output to my monitor with the 2.6.x
kernels. Soooooooo....the need for serial-you-name-it... sigh... :-)
Russell
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