Dan Mahoney, System Admin
2007-Jun-04 22:52 UTC
[Nut-upsuser] Where to buy a db9 serial port probe
All I apologize if this is slightly off topic, but I'm in the process of trying to get NUT working and I've discovered the need for a serial port probe that is native db9 - native db9 (the thought of hanging a probe plus two db9-db25 adapters plus a cable on a UPS bothers me greatly). I'm not looking for anything fancy, just a little gender changer with a buncha LEDs on it. However, every search for "db9/analyzer/probe/breakout/rs232" and any combination thereof has yielded crap results except for one for $40 from BlackBox, and quite frankly that's a bit much for a piece of hardware I'll use ONCE. David Harris, serial guru shows a pic of this on a page of his: http://www.conserver.com/consoles/Tracers/DB9-tracer-bicolor.jpg But says this model is BAD because of the way the LEDs are soldered (I really do not care), but I cannot find out how to find this device at ALL. Anyone else have any clues? -Dan -- --------Dan Mahoney-------- Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM Site: http://www.gushi.org ---------------------------
On Tuesday 05 June 2007 08:22, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:> I apologize if this is slightly off topic, but I'm in the process of > trying to get NUT working and I've discovered the need for a serial > port probe that is native db9 - native db9 (the thought of hanging a > probe plus two db9-db25 adapters plus a cable on a UPS bothers me > greatly). I'm not looking for anything fancy, just a little gender > changer with a buncha LEDs on it.I suggest buying a multimeter, some wire and 2 D9 connectors, then you can use the multimeter to probe the wires to find what is going on. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/nut-upsuser/attachments/20070605/46dbac36/attachment.pgp