First hurdle: C4 not booting.

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Okay, I got my board and the bunch of peripherals that go with it (excluding the monitor). I eagerly powered it on and hit my first problem. Garbage hex numbers on my CuteCom terminal. Ok, here’s the setup:

Host:
Laptop running Win 7 with Ubuntu 9.10 running inside VMWare.

USB-RS232 dongle <–> Null Modem Cable <–> IDC10-DB9

With no SD card, I get the following output when I power on the board using a 5v 1A supply.

Assuming, there might be some issue with the IDC10-DB9 cable (since all odd pins on header side were mapped to the first five pins of the DB9 and all 4 even pins were mapped to the pins 6-9 on DB9), I individually connected RX, TX and GND of headers (pins 2,3,5) to corresponding pins on DB9 (2,3,5), yet I see the same issue.

I am unable to find any previous record of this issue in the mailing list archives. I verified the cabling, settings (115200,8,N,1) and did a loop back test to eliminate setup issues. What else could go wrong? Any pointers?

Best regards,
Scott.

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Hi.

I read your setup process and I think it isn't wrong.

I've never used the CuteCom so I don't know how it works,
but I've read that it has a hexadecimal mode.

If you are using it on GUI, you should uncheck the hexadecimal checkbox.

Best regards,
tomo

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Well, my suspicion was correct. Looks like cutecom messed up the whole thing. I finally installed TeraTerm in Windows 7 and see the blissful boot messages on the terminal.

Cheers
Scott.