Alan DuBoff wrote:
I just got my Belkin USB->Serial going last week and was able to talk to my
embedded system as well, but I have a quirk with I was wondering if you see.
The serial console on my embedded system is only 9600, and for some reason it
seems that when I pull up minicom, even though it is set to 9600, I have to
change it to a higher speed, then kick it back down to 9600 and it works fine.
Before that I get garbage on the screen, and think it's initially set to the
wrong speed (I'll have to dig through the Belkin code and see if it
initializes to something else).
I haven't used it in depth yet. I just got my embedded system to output
it's boot screen and that was enough for me. It was late so I headed
off to bed. The system outputs at 9600 bps and I didn't have to change
any settings. I setup minicom to default to 9600 and everything worked
fine. I didn't have to bump the speed up or down.
I normally cross-comile on an i686 box running Debian (ppc 823 target), but
I'm happy to be able to use my PowerBook to do it, I'm a road warrior now!
Most of my colleagues think I'm sacrilege for running a non-Apple OS on it,
but they'll get over it, I know that I have already!<roar!>
I can do either. I'd prefer not to cross compile but it doesn't really
matter. I laptop is a powerpc machine and this is the machine I will be
using when travelling and going to robotics competitions so this will be
my default machine for compilation too (just in case I have to make some
last minute hacks when on the road).
MacOS is good, but it doesn't compare to the flexibility of Linux or
some other the other free UNIX clones. Debian is my system of choice.
Brendan Simon.
