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[ts-7000] Re: Help connecting to GPS on com2

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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: Help connecting to GPS on com2
From: "Yan Seiner" <>
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 12:52:11 -0000
--- In  "Rob" <> wrote:
>
> --- In  "Yan Seiner" <yan@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In  "Rob" <rafferty29@> wrote:
> > 
> > > I commented out
> > >  T1:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyAM1 115200 vt100
> > > in /etc/inittab with a # an rebooted (thought I had tried this 
but 
> > wanted to be sure)  Same 
> > > result.  
> > > 
> > > I am wondering if I could have damaged COM2?  I am pretty sure 
I 
> > have it connected 
> > > properly with the redline on the cable to the dot side.  The 
cable 
> > checked fine and the 
> > > Garmin cable works on windows to HyperTerminal.  What makes me 
> > wonder is why would 
> > > the system want a password on COM2 but not COM1?
> > 
> > If you're connecting to it and getting a password then 
> > a) your hardware is probably OK
> > b) you still have a process that's grabbing that terminal for 
> > console
> > 
> > ISTR a jumper on some of the boards that set the console; you 
don't 
> > have it set to com1/ttyAM1, do you?
> > 
> > --Yan
> >
> Sorry I am not clear.  I normally use COM1 to login with the 
jumpers set at #2 and #3 in 
> that configuration with " T1:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyAM1 
115200 vt100" commented 
> out in the /etc/inittab file I just get zero data.

OK.

> 
> I temporarily set the jumper to #2 and #4 to see if anything could 
use COM2, in that 
> configuration I could see the console but it wanted a password to 
login (something the 
> same system did not want on COM1, I found that bizarre.

OK, this sounds like a busybox/inittab config issue.

Could you post all entries in inittab for /dev/ttyAM? in your 
inittab?


> I could not login using COM2 as the console and connecting the GPS 
to COM1 as it wanted 
> a password and I do not have one set.  This prevented me from 
seeing if it was code or 
> port.

So you could never connect to ttyAM1 at all?

Either with console or with the gps?

--Yan






 
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