If I recall correctly, the XO-1.5's serial adapter shares some circuitry
with the camera. Booting an XO-1.5 with a serial adapter means you cannot
use the latter.
To do this, the XO-1.5 looks for a resistor placed across two of the wires
to see if a serial adapter is present. No other XO laptop
On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 11:38:02AM -0500, Peter Easthope wrote:
> Seems that an adapter such as http://www.ebay.ca/itm/381346598663 ,
> similar to the first generation adapter, might work. [...]
Doubt it. The product description is inadequate, it does not state
the serial voltage. It does say s
On Wed, October 21, 2015 12:22 pm, Paul Fox wrote:
> i believe it's because the later adapters are USB adapters, and are
> powered from the USB side. the old XO-1 adapter gets power from the
> laptop -- that power isn't available from later models. (read the
> descriptions of "Pin 1" in the Elect
peter wrote:
> Seems that an adapter such as http://www.ebay.ca/itm/381346598663 ,
> similar to the first generation adapter, might work. The concluding
> sentence in
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Serial_adapters#First_generation_serial_adapter
> is "This only works on the XO-1." What prevents
Seems that an adapter such as http://www.ebay.ca/itm/381346598663 ,
similar to the first generation adapter, might work. The concluding
sentence in
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Serial_adapters#First_generation_serial_adapter
is "This only works on the XO-1." What prevents it from working on an
XO-1.
