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Hi,

I've just bought a Nokia DKU-5 cable and trying to work out which wires need connecting to which pins on a wgt634u.
Could anyone tell me what the orange, green, white, blue, and red wires represent please?

I've looked here http://pinouts.ru/data/nokia_pop_pinout.shtml but there's too much glue gunk on the connector to be able to work it out and I haven't got a multimeter.

My guess at the moment is this but I'm not at all confident:
2 green    gnd
3 red         aci
4
5 orange      usb vbus
6 blue         rx
7 white     tx
8
9
10
11
12
13
14

Any help would be apprectiated.

Thanks

Hi,

Fixed it.

I'm using a Nokia DKU-5 cable made by OTi. Windows XP reports it as being a Turbo8088 data cable.

Here's the pinouts:
2
3 green      aci
4 red         v out
5        
6 orange    rx
7 blue           tx
8 white       data gnd
9
10
11
12
13
14

Connecting it to the Netgear WGT634U J2 port the sequence (with the lights facing you) is:
no connection
blue      (tx)
orange  (rx)
white     (data gnd)

I'm using Hyperterminal with settings 115200, no parity, 8 data bits, 1 stop bit, no flow control.

So there you have it, a working serial cable!!!

Hope this helps!

Cheers,
Hovis

(Last edited by hovis on 4 Sep 2006, 13:44)

Brief "Me, too" info:

DKU-5 cable, bought on eBay for $1.99 + $4.99 S/H = $6.98

Pinouts:
3 orange  aci
4 green   v out
5 (none)
6 white   rx
7 blue    tx
8 black   data gnd

Notice that the colors are (almost) completely different!  This is not surprising, but it means that you *must* test the cable before hooking it up, whether you use a meter or some other method.

Meanwhile, I'm sighing in defeat - I was hoping to avoid making a cable and/or opening up my WGT... roll

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