From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <39BE1A6B.8798C598@charter.net> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 06:58:35 -0500 From: "Dan A. Dickey" MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Manav Mediratta CC: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: [Fwd: RS232-ports on MPC850 FADS. Can they talk?] References: <39BDAC72.25B84092@astra.ee.iitm.ernet.in> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Manav Mediratta wrote: > Hello there, > I'm working with the MPC850 fads. I need to check if the RS232 port works. > So I connected it to hyperterm and ran the RS232 check(T6 using MPCbug). > Its supposed to be a loopback test but I ran it in open loop just to see > if something comes up. But I'm gettin' nothing. > > Does anybody know why this happens? Nope, I do not. I have a FADS850SAR that has been working quite nicely for half a year or so. No problems that I can tell, and I get output (and can input) on RS232 port 1 just fine. I'm not sure what T6 does though - but I also use mpcbug. I'm just about finished adding support for this board to ppcboot; if that is something you would be interested in, then please just hang on a bit more. -Dan ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/