pmodrs232 success! (raspberry pi2)

I hooked a Digilent PmodRS232 to the uart pins on my Pi2’s GPIO and have used the Internal serial port!!! :-)

Not really a huge thing but it did take me several hours over 2 nights…

The only hardware gotcha is that the Pmod defines TxD and RxD relative to itself, so hook pmod TxD to GPIO RxD and Pmod RxD to GPIO TxD. Make sure the flow control jumpers are set right and it’s good to go!

Hearsay works directly, Connector works with the Internal32 block driver.

nice! :)

David Pilling’s Archimedes Kermit also works with this!

(OK I’m currently having trouble getting it to transfer files. Not necessarily this Kermit’s fault, the ckermit I’m trying to talk to may be the one with problems. IIRC there was something strange about it, and it also has trouble transfering files with the CP/M version…)

Not necessarily this Kermit’s fault, the ckermit I’m trying to talk to may be the one with problems. IIRC there was something strange about it, and it also has trouble transfering files with the CP/M version…)

That version of ckermit was ported from a version that was old when Kermit 95 was released. Using the PC version was “interesting”

Well I got Archimedes kermit and raspian ckermit to transfer files to each other without munging them so I don’t think the problem is Archimedes Kermit.

(raspian ckermit cries that the ssl lib is too new but works anyway)

In Archimedes kermit:
set file type binary

to send a file from raspian:
kermit -8 -i -s

to recieve a file to raspian:
kermit -8 -i -r