OLinuXino Micro + Aten UC-232A USBtoSerial

[idragoev]

Hi,
I have on USB to Serial from ATen (UC-232A) and I want to use it with the OLinuXino Micro. However, whenever I connect it to the board, the board stops and does not want to boot. If I disconnect it it is working just fine.

Any Ideas what should be the problem and how can I solve it?

P.S. With the USB cable we have from Olimex it works.

Greetings,
Ivan

[flavigny]

Good evening (here in paris)
Please, precise your system (sdcard origin)
could you plug your adapter in any linux host and use dmesg to know Vendor & product Id.
I experience that:
1) of course, you need a driver (module) matching Ids (none are included in most distributions)
2) I tried (see another post) a wrong version of Archlinux (link on olinuxInoMaxi web page) where ttyAMA0 was misspelled  as ttyAM0 (in /etc/inittab) and not working.
3) since you have debug access, boot, and when you have prompt for login, PLUG your usb-rs232, watch the message (Vendor Id and Model Id, then if is allocated to a new line /dev/ttyUSBx ).
If you see Ids but not /dev/ttyUSBx, the reason is that no driver was found matching Vid:Pid.

However it may be a lot of other causes.
PO.

[idragoev]

Hi, flavigny,
and thanks for the prompt reply.

What we have here is not driver/Linux problem: I have the correct drivers, the USB is recognized, I have working OLinuXino that I can see using another USB-UART cable we have from Olimex.

I'm considering may be an electrical issue since I use only 3 wires - Tx, Rx, GND and restart is when I connect the OLinuXino to the USB-Serial cable.

Ivan

[flavigny]

Have you considered flow control (Olimex cable give DTR on), others need to set the emulator to "no control".
(read thread: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/olinuxino/message/2049 closed by: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/olinuxino/message/2048 )
I hope it will aid.
PO.

[flavigny]

ooops,

I wathch model on Aten web site, I see:
http://www.aten.com/products/productItem.php?model_no=UC232A

the db9 plug is to be connected to a modem!

could you check the voltage on rx and tx pin
it is a TRUE rs232c connector (with +/- V) and not a TTL one (0/+)
regards
PO.

[idragoev]

Yep,
it seems you are right!

I used with another board ARM11 from china and it worked just fine.

Thanks flavigny!