Re: [Voyage-linux] Connecting ALIX 6F2 through USB serial port, putty displays nothing

2014-11-10 Thread Michael Steinmann
Hi, are you using a null-modem cable or some funny gender changer? it must be a null-modem cable... Best regards, Michael Steinmann 2014-11-10 2:52 GMT+01:00 Kim-man 'Punky' TSE punky...@punknix.com: On 11/7/2014 4:29 PM, Abhay Gupta wrote: I configured putty over */etc/ttyUSB0* with

Re: [Voyage-linux] Connecting ALIX 6F2 through USB serial port, putty displays nothing

2014-11-10 Thread Michael Steinmann
Hi Abhay, A null-modem cable has two female db9 connectors, so nothing else is needed. Best regards, Michael 2014-11-10 10:15 GMT+01:00 Abhay Gupta abhay.gu...@symstream.com: Hi Miachel, I am using a serial cable but I'm not able to determine whether it is a null modem cable or not. Any

Re: [Voyage-linux] Connecting ALIX 6F2 through USB serial port, putty displays nothing

2014-11-10 Thread Abhay Gupta
Hi Miachel, I am using a serial cable but I'm not able to determine whether it is a null modem cable or not. Any help will be appreciated. For absolute surety I'm gonna order a brand new cable. Do I need anything else? Like any null modem connector or something? Please tell me so that I can order

Re: [Voyage-linux] Connecting ALIX 6F2 through USB serial port, putty displays nothing

2014-11-10 Thread chris hermansen
Here is a great source for RS-232 and Null Modem Cabling... On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 1:15 AM, Abhay Gupta abhay.gu...@symstream.com wrote: Hi Miachel, I am using a serial cable but I'm not able to determine whether it is a null modem cable or not. Any help will be appreciated. For absolute

Re: [Voyage-linux] Connecting ALIX 6F2 through USB serial port, putty displays nothing

2014-11-10 Thread chris hermansen
Abhay points out that I didn't bother to include the link... Just showing off... http://www.lammertbies.nl/comm/info/RS-232_null_modem.html On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 7:44 PM, chris hermansen clherman...@gmail.com wrote: Here is a great source for RS-232 and Null Modem Cabling... On Mon, Nov

Re: [Voyage-linux] Connecting ALIX 6F2 through USB serial port, putty displays nothing

2014-11-09 Thread Kim-man 'Punky' TSE
On 11/7/2014 4:29 PM, Abhay Gupta wrote: I configured putty over */etc/ttyUSB0* with speed(baud) = 9600 as well as 115200. But when I power up my ALIX board, nothing is displayed over putty. I even tried with *minicom* and *gtkterm* Please help me in this regard. Many thanks in advance :) :)

[Voyage-linux] Connecting ALIX 6F2 through USB serial port, putty displays nothing

2014-11-09 Thread Abhay Gupta
Hello everyone, I'm using Voyage 0.8 on the ALIX. Please help me connect ALIX with my laptop through a serial port to usb converter. Has anyone ever tried it? Do suggest if there is some different approach. My OS: UBUNTU 12.04 Using Device : ALIX 6F2 I'm trying to connect ALIX to my PC using a