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On May 11, 2013, at 12:59 AM, hiren panchasara wrote:

> I found one of these:
> =
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006JKNWLE/ref=3Doh_details_o06_s00_i00?i=
e=3DUTF8&psc=3D1
>=20
> And I've connected it to laptop as shown in:
> http://www.strugglingcoder.info/pics/bb1.jpg
> and on beaglebone as shown in: =
http://www.strugglingcoder.info/pics/bb2.jpg
>=20
> As per the schematic info I derived:
> Pin 1: GND
> Pin 4: RX
> Pin 5: TX
>=20
> I can still not see anything after connecting to "cu -l cuaU0".

You probably need to set the speed:

  cu -s 115200 -l cuaU0

Tim