Please confirm: enabling serial port on DTivo

[omf]

Could someone please confirm that it is possible to enable the serial port on the series-1 DTivo (DSR6000)? I've modified the Tivo-provided serial cable so that I won't need a null-modem adapter, but haven't had any luck talking to the port. The following line is at the end of my rc.sysinit:

/bin/bash </dev/ttyS3 >& /dev/ttyS3 &

But I don't get any prompt when I hit ENTER a few times right at the beginning of the DTivo's boot-up, either (I was expecting to get into the PROM boot menu).

I've seen some mention of the port not working on DTivo's, so I wanted to keep from wasting time if no one else has gotten this to work.

Thanks!

[eastwind]

You need to make sure the cable is correct first. I think that your PC's serial port needs to be 9600,8,n,1,none for a S1DTiVo.

ew

[mikey]

But I don't get any prompt when I hit ENTER a few times right at the beginning of the DTivo's boot-up, either
you won't get a boot menu on a s1 dtivo unless you use the newly tested prom. search for alphawolf in series 1 support.
if you plug and unplug the the cable do you get "garbage" on your terminal program? If not it's probably the cable.

[omf]

Interesting note about the PROM - I'll check that out.

The cable is good - at someone else's suggestion, I tested by shorting the last two segments of the 3.5mm plug and typing for echo on the PC side.

Anyway, just wanted to be sure someone had this working. I'll keep investigating.

Thanks!