Re: [beagleboard] Enabling ttyO4 with DTR/DSR/RTS without the capemgr

2014-12-27 Thread Thorsten von Eicken
On Saturday, December 27, 2014 10:06:38 AM UTC-8, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: Didn't you say you're using a BeagleBone (White) and not the 'Black? Nope. this is also posted with the 'Black tag. dl4mea interjected a message about the 'White. I don't see how to figure out whether uboot

Re: [beagleboard] Enabling ttyO4 with DTR/DSR/RTS without the capemgr

2014-12-27 Thread Thorsten von Eicken
On Saturday, December 27, 2014 10:06:38 AM UTC-8, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: Also, if you've got a USB serial cable, you can pause the startup sequence and poke around a bit with U-Boot to see what dtb file it's trying to load. I attached a serial cable, but it doesn't say anything

Re: [beagleboard] Enabling ttyO4 with DTR/DSR/RTS without the capemgr

2014-12-27 Thread Thorsten von Eicken
After some debugging I found... - I have to set fdtfile=am335x-boneblack-ttyO4.dtb in uEnv.txt, not dtb=... - uBoot loads the dtbs from /boot/dtbs, not from /boot/dtbs/`uname -r`, which is where the dtb-rebuilder drops them I have uBoot 2013.07, maybe some of the info pertains to a

Re: [beagleboard] How to make BBB pins work after Ubuntu Trusty install?

2014-12-27 Thread Thorsten von Eicken
:36:33 PM UTC-8, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: On 12/27/2014 4:15 PM, Robert Nelson wrote: On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 5:55 PM, Thorsten von Eicken tvone...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: On Wednesday, December 10, 2014 5:53:42 AM UTC-8, RobertCNelson wrote: I'm not really planning

Re: [beagleboard] Enabling ttyO4 with DTR/DSR/RTS without the capemgr

2014-12-26 Thread Thorsten von Eicken
I don't see how to make this stuff work... I used dtb-rebuilder to produce the provided DTB with ttyO4: # ls -ls /boot/dtbs/`uname -r`/*tty* 88 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 86762 Dec 26 21:37 /boot/dtbs/3.14.4.1-bone-armhf.com/am335x-boneblack-ttyO1.dtb 88 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 86762 Dec 26

Re: [beagleboard] How to make BBB pins work after Ubuntu Trusty install?

2014-12-26 Thread Thorsten von Eicken
On Wednesday, December 10, 2014 5:53:42 AM UTC-8, RobertCNelson wrote: I'm not really planning to document v3.14.x further, as something special is planned to be merged for v3.19-rc1. (if your following the device-tree mainline list) Can you kindly point me to any info about what 3.19 is

Re: [beagleboard] Enabling ttyO4 with DTR/DSR/RTS without the capemgr

2014-12-26 Thread Thorsten von Eicken
On Friday, December 26, 2014 9:13:31 PM UTC-8, Rick M wrote: Anything in dmesg? About? I don't see any errors or so. # dmesg | egrep tty [0.00] Kernel command line: console=ttyO0,115200n8 fixrtc capemgr. disable_partno=BB-BONELT-HDMI,BB-BONELT-HDMIN root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rw

[beagleboard] Enabling ttyO4 with DTR/DSR/RTS without the capemgr

2014-12-21 Thread Thorsten von Eicken
I just upgraded to kernel 3.14.4 and have now run headfirst into the lack of capemgr. I had a nice DTS overlay file to enable ttyO4 with DTR/DSR/CTS and that's now of course useless. Not only that, but the dts files in https://github.com/RobertCNelson/dtb-rebuilder.git for ttyO4 are quite

[beagleboard] Re: Enabling ttyO4 with DTR/DSR/RTS without the capemgr

2014-12-21 Thread Thorsten von Eicken
files require hours of research and tinkering... Thorsten On Sunday, December 21, 2014 10:21:15 PM UTC-8, Thorsten von Eicken wrote: I just upgraded to kernel 3.14.4 and have now run headfirst into the lack of capemgr. I had a nice DTS overlay file to enable ttyO4 with DTR/DSR/CTS and that's

[beagleboard] Re: Second Ethernet Port

2014-12-21 Thread Thorsten von Eicken
Another alternative is to use VLANs, assuming your switch supports that. I'm using an ODROID as firewall/router and it also onlu has one ethernet port, so I simply use two vlans. (The purists will say that this is not as secure as two physical ports, but I'm ok with that.) On Saturday,

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Programmatically load device tree overlay in Go

2014-01-05 Thread Thorsten von Eicken
the dto... Any other ideas? Frank On Sunday, December 15, 2013 10:46:09 PM UTC-5, Thorsten von Eicken wrote: Do you perhaps need a newline terminator for the line you're writing to the slots "

[beagleboard] Re: Device Tree Overlay

2013-12-16 Thread Thorsten von Eicken
Same problem here with the UART driver. I'm having difficulties with the new enable_partno the cape manager fails to load my dtbo even through the echo slots works just fine. I have: $ cat /boot/uboot/uEnv.txt optargs=fixrtc capemgr.disable_partno=BB-BONELT-HDMI,BB-BONELT-HDMIN

[beagleboard] Re: Beaglebone and the 3.8 Kernel (Repost)

2013-12-15 Thread Thorsten von Eicken
I'm having difficulties with the new enable_partno the cape manager fails to load my dtbo even through the echo slots works just fine. I have: $ cat /boot/uboot/uEnv.txt optargs=fixrtc capemgr.disable_partno=BB-BONELT-HDMI,BB-BONELT-HDMIN capemgr.enable_partno=BB-UART4-RTS uenvcmd=i2c mw 0x24 1

[beagleboard] Programming an arduino remotely using UART4 on the BeagleBone Black

2013-12-14 Thread Thorsten von Eicken
I've been wanting to combine my BBB with my Arduino hacking, specifically, I like to be able to program my arduinos remotely and the BBB seemed like the right tool for that. For example, right now I have an arduino clone (a JeeNode http://jeelabs.net/projects/hardware/wiki/JeeNode) attached to

Re: [beagleboard] New BBB ordered from Logic Supply received A5C instead of A6 - Should I return?

2013-12-11 Thread Thorsten von Eicken
Dumb question: how does one tell which version a board is? On Tuesday, December 10, 2013 9:12:38 AM UTC-8, Gerald wrote: I may. But I have no way to confirm that. Getting rid of the ground bounce would be the best solution. Gerald On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:14 AM, marcm...@gmail.com

[beagleboard] Re: GPIOs on HDMI pins - need tutorial

2013-12-08 Thread Thorsten von Eicken
-- Bone-Black-HDMIN,00A0,Texas Instrument,BB-BONELT-HDMIN Phew! On Sunday, December 8, 2013 7:16:51 PM UTC-8, Thorsten von Eicken wrote: Soo. all this sounds great but doesn't work for me. I'm using Ubuntu 12.04, maybe that's an issue? Here's what I did. I started out with: $ cat /sys/devices