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List:       cobalt-developers
Subject:    Re: [cobalt-developers] Monitoring serial port on Qube2 with a Palm
From:       "Byron C. Servies" <bservies () pacang ! com>
Date:       2000-04-20 17:34:24
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On 4/20/2000 at 3:57 AM, gerald@waugh.com (Gerald Waugh) wrote:

> Byron C. Servies <bservies@pacang.com> wrote
> ON: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 6:36 PM
> > Hi there!
> >
> > Recently I discovered that my portable's terminal program wouldn't
> > allow me to set the speed to 115kb/s, which is required for the
> > boot-time diagnostics from the Qube2 serial port.  I have found a
> > very handy solution and thought I would pass it along. Using the
> > standard Palm "modem" cable:
> > <http://www.palm.com/support/helpnotes/hardware/modemcbl.html> and a
> > teminal program, for instance:
> > <http://www.markspace.com/online.html> you can plug your palm right
> > into the box and capture the output to a timestamped memo.  Very
> > handy, I find: no 9-pin gender changers or anything.
> > Byron
> Byron,
> How did you know the Qube2 requires 115.2 KBS.
> Which Palm computer are you using?
> I have trouble with a Qube2, but can't seem to acces the serial port.
> Gerald
> 

Hi there!

I believe it was another post on this list that indicated 115kbps as the port
speed.  Also, the behavior of what I was seeing on the screen indicated a speed
mis-match at all rates up to 56000 (I worked with serial ports quite a bit in the
past).

I am using a palm III with the modem cable and the software I mentioned above. 
Setting the speed to 115200, 8-N-1 with RTS/CTS flow control in the "online"
programs' Communications menu was all that was required for me to get the output. 
Turning on logging with a timestamp was also handy.

What you see, by the way, is just dmesg output.  It is handy, but Cobalt support
will have to help you with fixing the problems without simply re-formatting the
disk using their network recovery CD.  I never did figure out what was wrong with
my disk: after mounting swap it would reboot.  I had backups, though, so restoring
from the CD and the backups was the best route for me.

Byron



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