To connect a Moxa 8 port serial card with octopus cable to an i386 serial port, do I need just a DB9 (2x female) gender changer, or a null modem cable/mini adapter as well?
The octopus cable ends are all male, as are the serial/comm ports. I've standard Cisco rollover cables to connect to my Sun servers RJ45 serial ports. http://www.moxa.com/product/c168hpci.htm $ dmesg | egrep '(Moxa|^com)' puc0 at pci0 dev 18 function 0 "Moxa C168H" rev 0x01: ports: 8 com com4 at puc0 port 0 irq 9: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo com5 at puc0 port 1 irq 9: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo com6 at puc0 port 2 irq 9: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo com7 at puc0 port 3 irq 9: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo com8 at puc0 port 4 irq 9: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo com9 at puc0 port 5 irq 9: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo com10 at puc0 port 6 irq 9: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo com11 at puc0 port 7 irq 9: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo com12 at puc1 port 0 irq 5: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo com12: probed fifo depth: 0 bytes com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo com0: console com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
