CS-E9302 - Serial Port Connection to Windows
Install a serial cable between your PC and the rs232_0 connection
The Olimex board is built as an RS-232 master (male DB-9 connector) just like your PC, thus, you need a null modem cable with a female connector on each end (pin 2 on one end connects to pin 3 on the other end, that is, pin 2 and 3 are swapped).
From the Windows desktop, run HyperTerminal
Click Start/programs/accessories/communications or – click Start / Run – hypertrm.exe
From Inside Hyperterm:
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select Call / disconnect (allows you to configure the port)
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select File / Properties
– In the Connect To tab
— Choose Connect using: COM1 (or your favorite port)
— click on Configure
---- In the Port Setings
---- Choose Bits per Second: 57600
---- Choose Data bits: 8
---- Choose Parity: none
---- Choose Stop bits: 1
---- Choose Flow control: None
---- click on OK
– In the Settings tab,
— Choose Terminal keys
— Choose Ctrl+H
— Choose Emulation: VT100
— Telnet terminal ID VT100
— click on Terminal Setup
---- choose Underline
---- check blink
---- uncheck all Terminal Modes
---- Character set: ASCII
---- click OK
— Backscroll buffer lines: 500 (doesn’t seem to work anyhow)
— click Input Translation
---- Encoding: Shift-JIS (default, don’t know what this does)
---- click OK
— ASCII Setup
---- uncheck all except “Wrap lines that exceed terminal width”
---- line delay: 0 milliseconds
---- Character delay: 0 milliseconds
---- click OK
— click OK
Apply power to the board. You should see a stream of boot messages. If not, verify your port settings and your serial connection.
After all those exciting boot messages, you should get a prompt:
~ #
(the ~ means you are at the root of the filesystem, i.e. Not in a subdirectory).