Thanks for all the help, Raquel
I appreciate it, a lot.

That works great. Thank you!
This makes me wonder what exactly was wrong earlier.
Was it the baud rate or because I didn't close the TTL gaps ?
Would it work now if I desoldered the TTL gaps ?
I'd like to know for sure to be ready for my next project.
Please advise !

P.S. I also gave printf ...

Man you're good! Thanks a lot.
It has finally worked!
I used your code (please see the code after modification for PIC18F458 below) and it worked with 4Mhz and baud=19200.
However, when I use 1Mhz and 2400baud, the meaningless characters
came back. CCS compiler says "Baud rate out of range" when i ...

While trying RS232, i used baud 9600
and set the jumpers accordingly (J1,2,4 out, J3 in).
It didn't work.
The code
#use rs232(baud=2400, xmit=PIN_C6, rcv = PIN_C7)
was my last attempt (the baud was the only
thing I could change, so I just tried different rates in desperation).
Thanks, Tom


Hi ...

Hi guys,
I am a newbie, so please bear with me.
I am trying to connect PIC18F458 to the LCD2041 (rev.1.5).
I used the code below (CCS C complier) and it didn't work: the LCD keeps displaying a bunch of meaningless characters.

Then I found out since I only have the bare PIC, I can't directly use ...