Hi Gerald and thank you for you response. This was a big oversight and on my behalf, I was a bit hasty posting here because I hadn't looked at the schematics or done much reading. One of those days when you forget to think :-/ Apologize for this post and thanks again.
regards Einar On Friday, October 24, 2014 3:40:37 PM UTC, Gerald wrote: > > There is no issue with the A5B. We use that port to test every board that > goes out and always have. > > Now, the cable you are using, well that will certainly blow up the buffer > sooner or later if it hasn't already. That is an RS232 cable. We use TTL > cables at 3.3V. > > Go here to get a line on the right cable > http://www.elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBone_Black_Serial and as long as > the buffer still works, you should be OK. > > > Gerald > > > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Einar Bjorgvinsson < > [email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Hi there >> >> I have been trying to connect to my BBB Rev. A5B by serial and haven't >> managed to get any fully functional serial communication. >> I use minicom with 115200 8N1 and get som action on the screen but >> gibberish data is appearing. Seems like it is some baudrate issue but it >> doesn't matter what I change it to it stays like this. >> >> I hooked the board up with a USB-to-serial converter from Trendnet, see >> here: >> http://trendnet.com/langen/products/proddetail.asp?prod=150_TU-S9#tabs-solution02 >> >> Is there some issue with Rev. A5B ? >> >> regards >> Einar >> >> >> -- >> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "BeagleBoard" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
