Serial version: no connection at all

[joho500]

Hi all,

I've purchased the serial version of the gateway. First connected the serial interface connector of the gateway directly to the serial interface of the PC running Ubuntu Server. No respons. Then I purchased a serial extension cable (male-female) and still no respons. I think syslog should show some message, right? I tried connecting the power first and then the serial cable and the other way around. Am I doing something wrong? Probably something stupid...

Thanks in advance.
Joost

[hvxl]

Connecting a device to a serial port doesn't normally result in messages in syslog.

I suggest you go through the troubleshooting procedures (updated today!) to see if you get any messages from the gateway.

[Ghostbird]

Have you directly connected to the serial interface to see if anything happens there?

For example use minicom:

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sudo minicom -s

Select "Serial port setup"
Set option A (Serial Device) to you serial device (something like /dev/tty... )
Set option E (Bps/Par/Bits) to 9600 8N1

Then hit [ENTER] to return to the main menu and choose Exit. This will make you exit the setup invoked by the "-s" option and start the communication according to the parameters you just entered.

Now you should be able to enter:

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PR=A

And the gateway should respond with version information.