Alex, Great plan! I'll announce it tonight for tomorrow's meeting.
Alan On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 3:22 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Okay, I examined the DIO's on this board. You need a full daughter card > which implements 422 or 232 to get that. The kit I have does come with one > to make a 232 work. > > At the very least, I can boot a board, explain about a boot loader, get > apache to run, and have a cross-compiled Hello World CGI in apache running. > That by itself is very different on single-board computers versus desktops. > > > ---- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> LOL, thought I made this clear... I haven't done anything with the board, I >> don't know about drivers and 232's. I have worked much with a >> sister-product to this board, mostly administration of a new Linux system >> and developing in CGI-C on it. There should be a default busybox install on >> it from the factory. I could come in early so we could slap something >> together, making sure I can boot the board, minicom in, and maaaaybe make >> sure a cross-compiler works from my laptop (it's an iBook G4!), tonight. >> >> Given this, what could we present? Make an appliance that makes two lights >> blink from the USB's? It would cover the basics of what busybox and cross >> compiling and drivers are about. >> >> >> >> > That would be very a very good topic. If you bring the hardware, are >> > you going to demo it? Would you like to present it? >> > >> > On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 11:42 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > >> > > Embedded Linux howto? Device drivers and bit-banging on RS-232/485? >> > > >> > > I'm kinda thinking only of what I'd like to learn myself as well as >> > > burdening Alan with that suggestion, so I'm hoping there are other >> > > presenters as well as good interest. >> > > >> > > I have a single-board ARM with dev toolkit that has been sitting on a >> > > shelf forever... It's got USB, ethernet, and RS485 ports. At least I >> > > could bring that to the table, if that's at all practical. If I know by >> > > today's end that this could be used I'll at least see if I can boot and >> > > minicom into it tonight. >> > > >> > > If anyone has a simple device that can be wired to a 5V signal or COM >> > > port or USB, that could give us some direction. >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > ---- Alan Dayley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> We have a Devel meeting scheduled for tomorrow but I have not rustled >> > >> up a topic yet. Does anyone have a topic they'd like to suggest or, >> > >> better yet, present? >> > >> >> > >> Alan >> > >> --------------------------------------------------- >> > >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> > >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> > >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > >> > > --------------------------------------------------- >> > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > >> > --------------------------------------------------- >> > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
