Serial terminal issues

[Daniel O'Connor]

On 06/06/2013, at 4:59, Alban Hertroys <haramrae at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It is very possible.  You should have asked Gigabyte what exact product
>> (specifically part number) to purchase that provided a
>> header-to-backplane DB9 port, or if they could send you one (many will
>> for free).  Always use what the mainboard vendor tells you.  Always.
> 
> I contacted Gigabyte, but haven't heard from them yet.
> 
> For the Dutch readers: their website is at gigabyte.co.nl. You absolutely don't want to go to gigabyte.nl - not safe for work, not at all (guess where I was…).

We make our serial cables at work, it is fairly straightforward. You can see in the manual which end of the motherboard connector is pin 1.

We have ribbon cable and insulation displacement D9 & 2x5 headers on hand though..

If you aren't certain the serial hardware works I suggest building or buying a serial loopback connector and plugging it in.
Then run..
cu -l /dev/cuXXX -s 9600
and typing and see if you get your typing echoed back.

If you do then you know the serial hardware & driver are working.

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