Re: [Gumstix-users] Problem connecting on Serial Port

[Black, M. <Michael.Black@EssexCorp.com>]

Looks to me like your hyperterminal baud rate is wrong.

A typical garbage look to wrong baud/rate and/or stop-bit and/or parity.

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Michael D. Black

Essex

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Sridhar
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Subject: [Gumstix-users] Problem connecting on Serial Port

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Hi,

I have a gumstix basix 400xm-bt and a tweener. I recently took it out of
storage and tried to connect to it via serial but am having a strange
problem. When I open the connection to COM9 (which is where the gumstix
is connected via a USB-serial cable) all I get it garbage. I have tried
pressing the reset button and it seems to be booting up, but the
characters that appear are not english, just a random stream. I'm pretty
sure I get to the login prompt because if I press enter, a random
sequence of characters appear (which I figure says "gumstix login:"). I
tested the serial cable by using a loopback terminator at the end and
there is nothing wrong w/ the cable (i can type characters and it is
echoed back). Any ideas as to what this problem could be?=20

BTW, I can connect to the gumstix just fine over bluetooth. Also, I used
to be able to connect via serial last year (before i put it into
storage). And yes, I have double-checked my connection settings and they
match that of the tutorial at the gumstix support site.=20

Also, here is what I'm seeing on the screen in hyperterminal after I
press the reset button on the gumstix:

http://www.theslinky.com/gumstix_ht1.jpg=20

-sridhar
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