Ext Serial Port.


MadDog

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I've got this working, its almost 100%. Get a few duff chars, prob down to my poor soldering. First ciruit board i've ever built.

So, got it running and in my nievity I thought i'll get a shell. After scratching my head I made a script with the following in

exec /bin/bash --login --noprofile -i -s < /dev/ttyS0 > /dev/ttyS0 2>&1

No joy. Any ideas?

What i'm aiming for is a cmd line promt at boot with out having to run anything from the console. May need to get the linux boot from SD thing working so I don't brick my gp2x.

Also, is it easy to slow down the connection? Hoping that will get rid of the odd duff characters I see.

Thanks,
Richard e Collins
 
Once the menu is up, if you press CTRL+C via your serial connection, it'll exit the menu and drop you to a shell. You can return to the menu by typing "./gp2xmenu" after making sure your in the "/usr/gp2x" directory.
 
Mmmm, I need to go and check my serial cable stuff, its not accepting input. :(

I used the ground on pin24 and not the one on pin13, could that be my prob?

I get some odd characters and drop some. Not many but enough for me to think about shortening my cable and breaking out the soldering iron again.
 
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