On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:49:15 -0800, "Patrick Harman"
wrote:

My decision was bases on specifications. I have now established
communications with the device, it took a null modem adapter and a gender
changer to do this. Un fortunately I no longer had these in my junk pile.

You shouldn't need that unless you have "bricked" the device and need
a reset to factory settings. Otherwise you should be able to do
everything via the ethernet connection and a web browser.