{"id":583,"date":"2011-11-22T11:25:38","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T11:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/?p=583"},"modified":"2011-11-22T11:25:38","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T11:25:38","slug":"gumstix-serial-console-on-mac-os-x-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/gumstix-serial-console-on-mac-os-x-lion\/","title":{"rendered":"Gumstix Serial Console on Mac OS X (Lion)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The gumstix Overo boards have a built in Serial<->USB IC. This is pretty neat because you don&#8217;t need to worry about buying a USB Serial cable, or buying\/building TTL\/RS232 level converters. Setting it up on a Mac requires you to install a driver though, and it took a little searching to figure out which driver I needed, so here are my notes.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, on a Tobi board the serial console is located on the opposite corner to the Ethernet socket:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"photo\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/photo.jpg 640w, https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/photo-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You need to download and install the following driver: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ftdichip.com\/Drivers\/VCP\/MacOSX\/FTDIUSBSerialDriver_v2_2_16.dmg\">http:\/\/www.ftdichip.com\/Drivers\/VCP\/MacOSX\/FTDIUSBSerialDriver_v2_2_16.dmg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Reboot.<\/p>\n<p>Install a terminal client (I used <a href=\"http:\/\/freeware.the-meiers.org\/\">CoolTerm<\/a>). Set the Baud rate to 115200, and you should be good to go:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/gumstix_serial.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/gumstix_serial.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"gumstix_serial\" width=\"688\" height=\"558\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-586\" srcset=\"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/gumstix_serial.png 688w, https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/gumstix_serial-300x243.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 688px) 100vw, 688px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The gumstix Overo boards have a built in SerialUSB IC. This is pretty neat because you don&#8217;t need to worry about buying a USB Serial cable, or buying\/building TTL\/RS232 level converters. Setting it up on a Mac requires you to install a driver though, and it took a little searching to figure out which driver [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1RRoU-9p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":587,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions\/587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}