This message was sent from: Sun Community Forum. <http://www.gekkou.co.uk/forum/read.php?f=1&i=502&t=476> ---------------------------------------------------------------- Sean, I was able to connect to a sun blade using a 9 pin to 9 pin null modem cable. I used 9600-8-N-1-Hardware for the serial connection from hyper termnial. I've heard that the serial ports on some blades are bad. Hope this helps! Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------- Sent using Phorum software version 3.3.2c <http://phorum.org>