Talk:Add a Serial port to the ARM9 Linkstation

This page is confusing. Too high a pictures to words ratio (e.g. not enough description).
 * If this confuses you, have you considered a simpler project for a start?

Questions: Look at the bottom of your LS Pro and search for a hole! This is the hole where we plug in that special connector. I posted that picture to show how it looks from the inside. The connector at the end of the LS Pro in fact is just a piece of plastic with 4 pins. it just fitted...thats all. The hole at the bottom. You still need a level shifter. These USB-Cables are cheaper compared to the components if you buy them alone besides...thats why.
 * What is that picture showing under ' Why it is easy to gain serial access on the LS Pro'?
 * I've managed to work out this is a USB-RS232 bridge chip, but we seem to end up with USB connectors at both ends. Huh?
 * Where does this connect on the LS Pro?
 * Why are you using a bridge chip if you want to talk RS232 to the LS Pro? Most PC's still have an RS232 port. Use that and you don't need a chip, just some wire.

+ Any chance of a circuit diagram? check here


 * What's the pin-out of the board? Guessing from a forum post, the longest trace (rightmost in the board photo) is GND, then going left VCC, TX (as in "data coming from the LSPro", considering it's a DCE), RX (as in "data entering the LSPro"). So the colours in the photo with the usb connector are: Green-GND, Yellow-TX, Orange-RX (as before, considering the LSPRO as a DCE, so TX means out of the LSPro and RX into the LSPro). Am I right?


 * Now that I have a cable (for a C25) I think I inverted TX with RX, the correct sequence (right to left) is GND, VCC, RX, TX - so in the usb connector in the photo Green-GND, Yellow-RX, Orange-TX