[Soekris] Soekris 4526 - Null Modem Cable

[Trevor Talbot]

On Nov 10, 2006, at 9:59 PM, Aaron wrote:

> I found a couple links on communicating with the board via a NULL 
> MODEM cable.  All of them have been different so far.  I made two of 
> them already and come up with nothing but garbage when using 
> Hyperterminal through windows to try to see the input from the board 
> (when power cycling).  I have the com port settings on 
> 19200,n,8,1,hardware control.    I tried it on two different machines, 
> both show garbage. I thought it might be a baud rate issue, but am not 
> quite sure.

It probably is the baud rate.  The next most common one is 9600.  I'd 
then try 115200, followed by all the lower rates in sequence until one 
works.