[Gta04-owner] Error in pin layout of serial cable?

[Jens Seidel]

2011/12/5 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns at goldelico.com>:
> Am 05.12.2011 um 01:30 schrieb Jens Seidel:
>> I received my new board a few days ago and think I found an error in
>> the pin location of the serial cable. Pins 7 and 8 have to be swapped
>> in the table in the manual (so that this matches the picture of the
>> cable adapter at page 36):
>
> I will double check it. It is an area that is attracting
> and pulling you into the swamp of mistakes...

Can someone help me to verify that I soldered it correctly?
Looking from the cable side I have on the top from left to right:
nothing, blue, yellow, nothing, brown
bottom from left to right: nothing, green, orange, red

(According to the table green and orange have to be swapped but I
followed the picture)

Does it matter to what pin the red cable is connected? Possible are
pins 1, 4 and 9. According to the manual:  "Which one you choose
depends on your application." Does this affect the booting or do I
have to select a special setting in my terminal program (minicom)?

>> With the fixed layout I did not yet receive any output but maybe I did
>> something wrong :-)
>> The display backlight is on (it doesn't turn off for a short time),
>
> This means that the MLO does not start from SD card (it turns
> it off for a moment and U-Boot turns it on again). Or did you use
> the "new" 512MB MLO? I don't know if it has this "feature".

I chose the files from 20111116-GTA04A3-HW-Tester:

> Anyways you should be able to see the "60" on the RS232.

No, nothing. The only sign of life is the background light of the
display. So I know at least that the battery is full. Should the LEDs
stay dark during start?

I also changed flow control from

hardware: yes
software: no

to

hardware: no
software: yes

without luck (did I disable RTC/CTS handshaking this way?).

Jens