On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Mikell Taylor wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> I'm very much a newbie to the 7250 and, more importantly, to using
> HyperTerminal in Windows to talk to it. I'm just trying right now to
> boot it, and I've got it and the "Getting started with ARM-Linux" guide
> next to me right now. The 7250 is hooked up to as correct a
> HyperTerminal setup as I can make, and it indeed turning on and booting,
> however, three things are happening:
>
> 1) I can't get it to display the entire boot sequence in my terminal.
> Sometimes I get entire lines of text about what it's doing, like
> bringing up the eth0 interface, or sometimes I get random characters
> that I imagine are the first character in the missing lines of text.
> Often, it's just a blank line space.
>
> 2) It never actually clearly displays a login or bash prompt, which
> gives me little chance to log in.
>
> 3) Once or twice I've thought it has displayed what I thought was a
> prompt, so I tried to log in as root as indicated in the quick start
> guide, but it does not display any of my input text in the terminal and
> even if i type in "root" and hit enter, it just sits there -- though the
> cursor does stop blinking for a few seconds, meaning that my input is
> going *somewhere*.
>
> I gave it a shot searching through the archives, but it didn't look like
> this was dealt with. Perhaps this is too newbie a question even for you
> all.
>
> Any help would be very, very much appreciated.
>
Ok others have offered advice re power supply and probability it is duff.
But maybe best to check out basics, given you say you are a newbie.
How have you configured the hyperterminal. I've no idea about Windows
apps, 'cos I use linux for my desktop (and I'll give my usual advice - if
you plan on doing things with linux on the ts7xxx series, then run a linux
desktop - the knowledge you gain will pay dividends)
Serial details should be
speed 115,200 baud, 8 data bits, no parity, 1 stop bit.
I set no-flow control, and I set my terminal software (ckermit, there's a
version for windows) to ignore the DCD/DSR signals.
Jim
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