I could not get X-CTU under wine to connect with my XBee, but I have a better solution, which is now working. asked in IEEE 802.15.4 by lbrothers New to the Community ( 4 points) Following some results in the Ubuntu forum, I used gtkterm to toggle the DTR while I had X-CTU open, but I still was not able to open the COM port.Īt this point, suggestions would be appreciated! Thank you. From what I read, the DTR line is normally high in Ubuntu, but normally low in Windows.
Usb to serial ftdi cable minicom serial#
I don't know if I am on the right track, but after some research I learned that the standard Linux driver for the FTDI chip sets DTR when you open the serial connection. I wonder why the serial port will not stay open?
Usb to serial ftdi cable minicom software#
Using the X-CTU software I added the user port COM5 (corresponding to USB0, see above symlinks) but not surprisingly when I ran 'test/query' it was unable to open the COM port (I say 'not surprisingly' given the log results above). When I did "grep USB /var/log/syslog", it showed:Īpr 16 17:35:57 LeNovo kernel: USB Serial support registered for FTDI USB Serial DeviceĪpr 16 17:35:57 LeNovo kernel: ftdi_sio 3-1:1.0: FTDI USB Serial Device converter detectedĪpr 16 17:35:57 LeNovo kernel: usb 3-1: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now attached to ttyUSB0Īpr 16 17:35:57 LeNovo kernel: ftdi_sio: v1.6.0:USB FTDI Serial Converters DriverĪpr 16 17:35:57 LeNovo modem-manager: (ttyUSB0) opening serial port.Īpr 16 17:36:10 LeNovo modem-manager: (ttyUSB0) closing serial port.Īpr 16 17:36:10 LeNovo modem-manager: (ttyUSB0) serial port closedĪpr 16 17:36:10 LeNovo modem-manager: (ttyUSB0) opening serial port.Īpr 16 17:36:16 LeNovo modem-manager: (ttyUSB0) closing serial portĪnd it ends with 'serial port closed' - that is, it opens and closes it twice. I hooked up my XBee module and adapter to the computer again. Under home/.wine/dosdevices I ran "ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 COM5", "ln -s /dev/tty USB1 COM6" to link my serial ports (tty) to Windows' COM ports.įrom the following link I downloaded the X-CTU installer: Since I run Linux, I installed Wine on my Ubuntu 11.10 system. Using the FTDI cable, I connected it to my computer and established that the green LED was blinking as it should. I assembled an XBee series 01 module from Adafruit together with an adapter from Adafruit: I am having trouble establishing a connection between the XBee Series 01 and my computer.