Mookitty
Please state how you made your FT232RL work with Picaxe, for the non-believers.
I refer those who doubted that inversion was required to my first post on this matter.
Thank you all.
I had to invert the signals, no way around it. The sparkfun board I linked to is pretty much a raw FT232RL chip with factory settings.
I followed the directions in this thread, using the screenies as a guide to the settings. I had some difficulties, mainly because my bread board connection was iffy. Using a helpy hands clip to hold things steady solved that. I've since made a cable, so I don't have to plug in the sparkfun board with header pins.
A few hints:
Don't change the ID to that of the picaxe cable, mprog will stop seeing it until the RevEd drivers are installed. Thought I bricked it after that bonehead move.
Mprog is unintuitive, RTFM.
Read & Parse is your friend.
But now I have my eeepc (running Ubuntu-eee) & picaxe happily chatting, both for downloading and serial comms. Plus with a bit filp, the board can be used as a plug in LillyPad.& arduino pro programmer. I don't have any arduinos yet, but wanted to keep my options open.