Which board are you working with?
Sun Workstation 20 Ultra M2, Board has a header (9 pin) which I have attached my IDC serial header to.
You can connect that to a laptop or other modern PC without a serial
port, in order to get a serial port which applications can use
However, that USB thing is only useful on the host system, where you
do development, compiling, save logs, and so on. It is not useful on
the target side. There you must have an onboard serial port.
My development board EVGA nforce 6 based board with no onboard serial. A cross-over serial cable, is that the same of different to a null modem cable.
Many thanks again
Dave
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On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Peter Stuge
<peter@stuge.se> wrote:
David Houston wrote:
> I have finally got round to making myself a IDC Serial header for
> debugging purposes.
Which board are you working with?
You can connect that to a laptop or other modern PC without a serial
port, in order to get a serial port which applications can use. You
also need a cross-over serial cable, not just a gender changer.
However, that USB thing is only useful on the host system, where you
do development, compiling, save logs, and so on. It is not useful on
the target side. There you must have an onboard serial port.
//Peter
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