User`s guide

MPC8240 and MPC8260 Emulation 41

Chapter 2: Connecting the Emulation Probe to a LAN

Setting Up a Serial Connection

To set up a serial connection to an emulation probe, you will

need to:

• Set the serial configuration switches

• Connect a serial cable between the host computer and the

emulation probe

• Verify communications

Serial connections on a workstation

If you are using a UNIX workstation as the host computer, you

need to use a serial device file. If a serial device file does not

already exist on your host, you need to create one. Once it

exists, you need to ensure that it has the appropriate

permissions so that you can access it. See the system

documentation for your workstation for help with setting up a

serial device.

Serial connections on a PC

Serial connections are supported on PCs. You must use

hardware handshaking if you will use the serial connection for

anything other than setting LAN parameters.

If you are using a PC as the host computer, you do not need to

set up any special files.