Question - I tried picocom using the command picocom -b 9600 /dev/ttyS1 in the freescale MX51 EVK board but it does not seem to work

Answer- You may like to try this command

picocom -b 9600 /dev/ttymxc1

Notice ttymxc1 in place of /dev/ttyS1

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