Configuring Fez Panda II for Serial port?

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Sorry, I’m a newbie and this is probably a very stupid question.
I just got my FEZ Panda II and the FEZ Touch LCD.
I wrote my program and now I want to write another C# program to control/communicate with the FEZ through the USB port.
How do I make the FEZ emulate a COM port? Is this what I should be doing?
I see that the FEZ Touch has a jumper for Serial/COM but when I jumper it for serial and plug it in, it doesn’t show up in my Device Manager.

Please keep your response “dumbed-down” lol. Thanks in advance.

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Thanks Mike. I guess I need to buy an RS232 shield if I’m reading that correctly?

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Keep reading. Look for virtual CDC with debugging

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Thanks again. I’m still a little confused but I think I can handle it from here. I downloaded the drivers and ran the example program and it now shows up as COM 5 in my device manager. :slight_smile:

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I don’t know what to use as jumper or switch on this motherboards, i’m really noob to electronic could anyone instruct me what to buy ?

Because i understand i have to link 2 switches GND and MOD to switch to serail debugging but i have no way of doing it!

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Pixou, GND and MOD on Panda II are on the large header at the “end” of the board. They are right next to each other. All you need is a short piece of breadboard wire or similar linking those two and you’ve done what you need.

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If no wire, use anything conductive like a paper clip