[el-zoroo]

Our main programmer (el-zoroo) left already, so I'm just going to quickly sum up what we did today.

We tried some more things today to fix this. Replacing the directly-crimped terminator with one with some wire soldered to the resistor, but that didn't do anything. We also tried reloading the firmware, but whenever we tried, BDC-COMM complains that it can't contact the boot loader. We verified with a multimeter that the cable itself works fine. We also tried using a usb-to-serial adapter instead of this laptop's built in serial port. BDC-COMM defaulted to the built in serial port (1), and the jaguar thought that it had comm (solid yellow light), although BDC-COMM wouldn't allow us to do anything besides attempt to assign a new board ID. However, when we switched it to the usb adapter (4), the jaguar lost comm (blinking yellow light), but BDC-COMM allows us to try to set the voltage, etc. Using the Classmate with the usb adapter has the same effect as using the built-in serial port on the other laptop. We're planning on messing around with the serial port's data rate, bits per second, etc. in the device manager tomorrow.