Also try turning off hardware flow control On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 6:46 AM, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > On 2013-01-02, Jan Stary <h...@stare.cz> wrote: >> This is 5.2/i386 on an IBM Thinkpad T40. As this laptop does not have >> a serial port, I bought me this USB-to-serial gizmo: > > There is a real serial port, but no standard de9 connector on the > main laptop, it's only available via the dock interface. > >> Now from this Thinkpad, I try to connect with >> >> cu -l /dev/cuaU0 -38400 >> >> That say 'Connected', but nothing else happens. >> I can see a garbled login screen such as >> >> kXKMr/i386 (gw.stare.cz) (tty00) >> login: >> -i >> >> I usually see something like that with a wrong baudrate. > > You won't have usable chars like this if the baud rate is wrong. > >> What kind of problem is this? > > Faulty/incomplete null modem cable? (do you have at least pins 2/3/5 > connected? sometimes it helps to *only* have 2/3/5 connected.) > > Faulty USB-to-RS232 adapter? > > Have you tried the USB/RS232 and null modem connected to some other > computer? (you can just run cu on both sides and type, it won't echo > locally but you should see text from the other side) > >> Can my ucom do 38400? How do I find out? >> Would it make sense to try other baudrates >> (on both the ALIX and my end, obviously)? > > Doubtful, but you could try it. > >> Is anybody using an USB-to-serial connection to an ALIX? > > Yes. >
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