Listening to: How We Operate - Gomez

I have started playing with the e-ink dev kit (it uses a Gumstix as the controller). The first problem was talking to the dev board using the usb-serial connection and OSX. I got it working ok last night using my XP virtual machine. This morning I got it up and running using OSX. The key steps:

1. Install the USB drivers for the serial port.
   I needed to install the FT232R drivers - which you can find here.
   You will need to reboot your Mac and then when you plug the USB into your machine you will be treated to a new tty under /dev (in my case /dev/tty.usbserial-A1002bao).
2. Install ZTerm
   I couldn’t get an intelligible connection using ’screen’. ZTerm allows you to set up the serial connection correctly.

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