Hi I have experienced the same problem with HyperTerminal on Win2000. There are a number of freeware terminal emulators for Win2000 (eg. http://home.planet.nl/~ruurdb/IVT.HTM), so you could try one of those if you can't use linux. Good luck /Steffen On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 20:13, Mitchell, Earl wrote: > You can also get a probe with > ethernet support and do it that > way. > > -earlm > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mitchell, Earl [mailto:earlm@mips.com] > Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 11:04 AM > To: 'Pete Popov'; Adeel Malik > Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org > Subject: RE: How to increase download speed for UART > > > > YAMON only prints '.' feedback for > ethernet download, unless you modified it. > Download a copy of TeraTerm and use that > instead of Hyperterminal. Then you can use > the "Send File" command under File pulldown. > This gives you feedback showing how many > bytes have been transferred. > > I was able to load a 6.4MB linux srec > image in 27 minutes on my Malta 4Kc board > with baud rate set to 38.4K. Using TFTP > over ethernet it takes 17 seconds. Another > alternative is to consider buying an EJTAG probe > and loading thru that. The probes will probably load > something this size within 1-4 minutes. This > is assuming you have EJTAG interface available. > But I wouldn't buy a probe just to download > code. ;-) > > -earlm > > -----Original Message----- > From: Pete Popov [mailto:ppopov@mvista.com] > Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 9:09 AM > To: Adeel Malik > Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org > Subject: RE: How to increase download speed for UART > > > On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 08:41, Adeel Malik wrote: > > Yes this is an Motorola's S-Record File. Do you think that I am missing > > something?. I am using YAMON to configure the UART's settings on the board > > and HyperTerminal on the Host the transfer this file. > > Yes, I think there's something definitely wrong. I wonder if the > download is even in progress... You're using windows and hyperterm? Try > it on linux but just doing "cat <srec file name> > /dev/ttyS0", > assuming you're using the first serial port to connect to the target. > Yamon gives you feedback of the download progress by printing dots, when > downloading over ethernet. I imagine it does the same when downloading > over serial port, so if you are not seeing any progress feedback, then > perhaps that's another indication that your download is not working. > > Pete > > > ADEEL > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Pete Popov [mailto:ppopov@mvista.com] > > Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 8:45 PM > > To: Adeel Malik > > Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org > > Subject: Re: How to increase download speed for UART > > > > > > On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 08:32, Adeel Malik wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > I am porting Linux to a MIPS based development platform. The > > > UART on the board provides a maximum baud rate of 115 kbps. But the > > > download time for the kernel Image of about 4.3 MB is about 4 hours > > > !!!!!. > > > > 4.3MB? Is this an SREC file? I've downloaded images over the serial port > > (srec files) and it takes no more than 10 minutes. > > > > Pete > > > > > Can someone help me address this problem ?. > > > > > > (I can't download the kernel image via tftp server using ethernet, as > > > the CPU doesn't have the MAC interface). > > > > > > Regards, > > > ADEEL MALIK, > > > > > > > > > > > >
