Re: [Gumstix-users] can not connect via serial port anymore, basix 400f-bt

[Mark W. <mwi...@gm...>]

Hi Dave,

It seems pretty odd, if the power is disconnected from the gumstix, it
at least makes an attempt to connect, but doesn't. but when the power
is on, and instead it gives me the error. Ive used the same port after
this happened, to connect to a iPaq with Linux on it, and it worked
fine. I don't think windows is using it up for any reason that I know
of, as well I just rebooted and its giving me the same issues.

I just tired to do it on another computer, and I received the same
error, I'm thinking it has to be something on the gumstix side, but
I'm not sure what it could be since I haven't done much with it. The
only thing Ive done so far is try to replace the jffs2, but with no
luck on that. But even with that part not working, I was still able to
get to GUM> many times after rebooting and unplugging it, and getting
a new image on there that worked was the only thing I was doing.

Any ideas on whats wrong, and more importantly, how to fix it? Ive
spent a good 200+ on getting this thing, and Id hate to think it would
break down so easily, and I'm 99% sure I couldn't have messed up
anything on the software end since I was doing the tutorials line by
line which worked for me (excluding actually building a working image
that could fit on the flash).




On 20/09/05, Dave Hylands <dhy...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi Mark,
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> >   I unplugged it from the Linux box, hooked it up to serial on the
> > windows box, and powered it up. After that I couldn't manage to
> > connect, it tells me:
> >
> > "Unable to open COM1. Please check your port settings".
> >
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> You should be able to unplug the serial cable and get the connect to
> work (i.e. open the port).
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> The above looks like something is going on in Windows, and has nothing
> to do with the gumstix.
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> Normally, the reason that you can't open a COM port under windows is
> because some other program has it open already.
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> --
> Dave Hylands
> Vancouver, BC, Canada
> http://www.DaveHylands.com/
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