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Contents • • • • • • Step 1: Connect to a terminal emulator using a PC Follow the instructions at, and, so that you end up with your Pi's serial port connected to a PC, running a terminal emulator such as minicom or PuTTY. The default Wheezy installation sends console messages to the serial port as it boots, and runs getty so you can log in using the terminal emulator. If you can do this, the serial port hardware is working. Timing Guy Gerber Rapidshare.