I tried this before and had no luck. I can tell you right off the bat it is not a straight-through cable. I tried making a cross-over cable, but that didn't work, either. I think the problem with the cross-over cable was that I was going from 9- to 25-pin and I got the wires mixed up somewhere. If you have access to a Linux box, check out section 11.2 of /usr/doc/HOWTO/Text-Terminal-HOWTO. There are several different pinouts for a direct cable connection. Hopefully one of them works.