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Re: problem with CF card not ready & problem with [xyz]modem


----- Original Message -----
From: "Celine Latulipe" <clatulip@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca>
To: "Gary Thomas" <gary@chez-thomas.org>
Cc: "eCos Discussion" <ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 4:41 PM
Subject: Re: [ECOS] problem with CF card not ready & problem with [xyz]modem


>
> On 29 Jul 2002, Gary Thomas wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 09:14, Celine Latulipe wrote:
> > > I've set up minicom so that I type in the file name. So, at the
redboot
> > > prompt in minicom I type:
> > >
> > > load -r -b 0x100000 -m xmodem
> > >
> > > Then I type Ctrl-A S to send files and select the xmodem protocol and
then
> > > I type in redboot.bin.
> > >
> > > Minicom tells me:
> > >
> > > Sending redboot.bin, 1438 blocks: Give your local XMODEM receive
command
> > > now.
> > >
> > > Then it just sits there for awhile doing nothing and eventually I get
this
> > > message:
> > > Xmodem sectors/kbytes sent:  0/ 0kRetry 0: Timeout on sector ACK
> > >
> > > At this point I get fed up and press Ctrl-C because it's obviously not
> > > doing anything...
> > >
> >
> > How long was "a while"?  You probably need to let it do this, at least
> > once, before the two ends get synchronized.  However, it should be less
> > than 10 seconds total.
>
> I'm talking about 3-5 minutes that I waited and nothing happens.
>
>
> > If you give RedBoot the "load" command, but don't do anything with
> > minicom, what happens?  You should see a string of "C" characters come
> > out, about one every 3 to 5 seconds.  This tells you that RedBoot is
> > ready to accept the X-modem data.
> >
> If I type:
>
> load -r -b 0x100000 -m xmodem
>
> at the redboot prompt in minicom, but then don't try to send anything, I
> don't get anything. There is no string of "C" characters, even after
> waiting about 3 minutes.
>
> Celine
>

29-07-2002 Frank Robbins wrote:
Have you check you have anything coming into the serial port ..?
I sounds like you  may not or ahve you got the baud rate incorrect ?
Do you have a scope or something else to check data coming into the minicom
program?


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