Minicom Connection Over Serial Port To PIC18F452 Device

[Mike McCarty]

Robert L Cochran wrote:
> I'm trying to use minicom on Fedora Core 4 to speak to a PIC18F452 chip 
> which contains a preloaded version of the Microchip TCP/IP stack. I 
> built the device myself from a kit; it is intended to be a small web 
> server. My objective is to assign an IP address to the RTL9019AS 
> ethernet controller. This can be accomplished over a setup menu that 
> appears in the minicom window. I suspect I have incorrect minicom settings.

[snip]

> Then I start the setup menu again in a new minicom window. The original 
> -- default -- IP address appears.
> 
> So it seems like the option to save the IP address isn't working right. 
> Things are apparently lost when I restart the device.
> 
> Is this a minicom software issue, or is it bad soldering on my part with 
> the actual device being tested? I'm quite willing to agree it may have 
> soldering issues.

I don't see how it can be Minicom. All it does is transport
characters from your keyboard out the serial port, and from
the serial port to your display. If you are getting communications
with the device, then Minicom is doing its job. Without knowing
more about the PIC device, I can't say any more. Are you using
shadow RAM or nonvolatile RAM or EEPROM or FLASH EEPROM or what
to store? If it uses a RAM copy, but saves config in a serial
EEPROM, it could be that you indeed have a solder problem
on the board, like a cold solder joint to the data clock pin.

In any case, I don't see how it can be Minicom.

Mike
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