PS2Atari
December 15th, 2004, 02:03
Hey everyone, today I revieved my coders cable in the mail, but I'm having trouble using it..
I don't know what com port its using, but I only have three so it shouldn't be too hard to figure that out.. but whenever I run dc-tool (whith the dreamcast running the serial server) it just does nothing... no matter what comport I set it to with "dc-tool -t comX"
I think the fact might be, that I have to use an sort-of serial extension cable, since the monitor my dc uses is more than a pathetic 1 and a half feet away from my pc.
my extension calbe isn't truely for serial tho, it looks sorta like this one:
http://www.autdirect.co.uk/acatalog/ExtModCable.jpg
on one end it's a standard 9-pin female, and at the other end is the 25-pin wider male-port, with an adaptor that converts it back to a 9-pin male outlet, in which I then plug the coders cable into, to buy me an extra 6-feet
could this be the problem? It would be difficult for me to test the cable by itself, but if this set up should work, what else could be the problem?
thanks for any help,
)>-PS2Atari-<(
I don't know what com port its using, but I only have three so it shouldn't be too hard to figure that out.. but whenever I run dc-tool (whith the dreamcast running the serial server) it just does nothing... no matter what comport I set it to with "dc-tool -t comX"
I think the fact might be, that I have to use an sort-of serial extension cable, since the monitor my dc uses is more than a pathetic 1 and a half feet away from my pc.
my extension calbe isn't truely for serial tho, it looks sorta like this one:
http://www.autdirect.co.uk/acatalog/ExtModCable.jpg
on one end it's a standard 9-pin female, and at the other end is the 25-pin wider male-port, with an adaptor that converts it back to a 9-pin male outlet, in which I then plug the coders cable into, to buy me an extra 6-feet
could this be the problem? It would be difficult for me to test the cable by itself, but if this set up should work, what else could be the problem?
thanks for any help,
)>-PS2Atari-<(