Re: [casper] ROACH serial connection issues

2014-12-03 Thread Norbert Bonnici
Dear all, For future reference: Anyone using a metal notebook to connect to serial you might encounter issues with a floating ground. Make sure you disconnect your laptop from the power supply to avoid an additional ground. At least now I can see the count down timer and transmit data (indicated

Re: [casper] ROACH serial connection issues

2014-12-02 Thread Norbert Bonnici
Hi Marc, The USB dongle's baud rate should have been set properly. When set to different baud rates no readable data is received through the serial port. Added line wrapping but it didn't change anything. In addition, recently the communications are being disabled when the GND wire is connected

Re: [casper] ROACH serial connection issues

2014-12-02 Thread David MacMahon
Hi, Norbert, If you hit any key to stop autoboot when it says Hit any key to stop autoboot, does it in fact stop the autoboot? If so, you could use u-boot's printenv command to see what commands get run as part of autoboot and then try to run them by hand to try to figure out where things go

Re: [casper] ROACH serial connection issues

2014-12-02 Thread Norbert Bonnici
Hi David, The problem is that I don't see the counter anymore and any command I give the roach such as run bit, run sailboat etc are ignored or at least no feedback is receive after the Hit any key message now. U boot is running using bootstrap option C. Should it be H? The dip switches are

Re: [casper] ROACH serial connection issues

2014-12-01 Thread Marc Welz
On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Norbert Bonnici norbert.bonnici...@um.edu.mt wrote: Dear Marc, I've have tried all the possible CR+LF combinations. Any ideas? Then I am not sure - I know that some USB dongles attempt to autodetect the serial speed - maybe something is going wrong there