[Gumstix-users] My new gumstix arrived dead? I'm heart broken

[Khaled H. <kha...@ya...>]

Hi all,

I got my gumstix a while back, but ws so busy to play
with it. Today I stayed home sick, and thought it was
the  perfect time to play with my new gumstix.

I enabled the serial port in BIOS, installed ckermit
on my laptop running SuSE 9.2, started kermit and set
it to 115200, no parity, no flow control, 8 bit and 1
stop bit, and connected.

Then I plugged my null modem cable that I bought from
gumstix into my laptop and the gumstix, plugged in the
power supply, the little green light came up and I
felt my heart beat a bit faster.

I turned my head anxiously towards the screen to see
what is happening on the kermit console. And there was
nothing.....

I tried to restart the gumstix, verified that I'm
connecting to the right serial interface (/dev/ttyS0),
and all seemed ok.

Is there something else that I should try? or should I
just send it back to gumstix and declare it defected?

thanks
Khaled