Perhaps this is in a faq somewhere but i haven't found any info on it yet...

I've got a straight through cable on the sled to my laptop. Laptop is at 4800 bps ... I get garbage from the player except for a little bit talking about ":4800 logging disabled" ... i can control the player by issuing character commands, so something is working right ... I just can't get a real shell prompt going.

Also, it seems there's some confusion elsewhere ... when I plug in a GPS device to the sled, do I still use a straight through, or do I then need a null modem?

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