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rastik · 01-10-2012, 01:09 PM

I'm still not a lucky boy. My cable arrived and I connected it to KT. Whatever I did, the terminal was numb.

I use PuTTY (Win) and 115200 8N1 with no hw and sw flow control. When I interconnect TxD and RxD lines I can see typed characters echoed in the terminal. When Kindle is laying on the desk screen down and the connector is away from me (device upside down) I connected lines GND, RXD, TXD in left-to-right order. Matching colors on my cable were black, yellow, orange. Cable is decribed here on page 8.

Code:

http://www.ftdichip.com/Support/Documents/DataSheets/Cables/DS_TTL-232RG_CABLES.pdf

Other three lines (CTS, RTS, VCC) I didn't connect.

EDIT: It works! It's just the other way around - pinout is TXD, RDX, GND from KT viewpoint. Cable lines are RXD, TXD, GND or yellow, orange, black.

01-10-2012, 01:09 PM	#6
rastik Connoisseur Posts: 65 Karma: 4662 Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: CZ Device: Kindle Touch 3G, Kindle Keyboard	I'm still not a lucky boy. My cable arrived and I connected it to KT. Whatever I did, the terminal was numb. I use PuTTY (Win) and 115200 8N1 with no hw and sw flow control. When I interconnect TxD and RxD lines I can see typed characters echoed in the terminal. When Kindle is laying on the desk screen down and the connector is away from me (device upside down) I connected lines GND, RXD, TXD in left-to-right order. Matching colors on my cable were black, yellow, orange. Cable is decribed here on page 8. Code: http://www.ftdichip.com/Support/Documents/DataSheets/Cables/DS_TTL-232RG_CABLES.pdf Other three lines (CTS, RTS, VCC) I didn't connect. EDIT: It works! It's just the other way around - pinout is TXD, RDX, GND from KT viewpoint. Cable lines are RXD, TXD, GND or yellow, orange, black. Last edited by rastik; 01-10-2012 at 01:20 PM.