On Saturday, October 11, 2003, at 06:01  AM, Daniel Bolgheroni wrote:

> On Friday 10 October 2003 23:30, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>
>> There is no parallel port in what you describe.
>>
>> Also, ignore the parallel port. You only want to use serial cables.
>
> Hmmm... Maybe you're right.
>
>> Do you have a local computer store? If so, buy one of:
>
> That's the problem. I live in a little, little city, and yes, there 
> are some
> local stores here. But these stores are i386-only sellers and these 
> guys
> don't even know what I'm looking for, nor BSD. I'm buying from Mercado 
> Livre,
> a eBay affiliated located in Brazil.

If you're handy with a soldering iron you can make your own cables 
and/or verify what you have with an ohm meter.  You can find the 
pinouts here:

     http://murphy,.dyndns.org/cables.html

-bob