Re: irda on the ipaq shell WORKING

Great!

i did some testing with Andrews changes but did not get it to work, will
try Dannys setting tomorrow, if i find the time, i am looking forward to
it!!

Regards, Patty

Danny Norging wrote:

>at 9600 bps :)
>
>Hi Pattrick and all others,
>
>after some testing last night, i am now able to get a shell via irda.
>The basic idea is, *not* to use the "console=..." kernel boot paramter,
>but instead hardcode the "console via irda" into /dev. So here are the
>instructions:
>
>1) build initrd with Andrews initrd-kit (was available at
>http://zap.sh.nu:8000/files/initrd-kit.tar.bz2 but right now i am
>getting a "connection refused") as root with:
>
>barney /home/ipaq/dev/tmp # tar xjf ../initrd-kit.tar.bz2
>barney /home/ipaq/dev/tmp # echo '#!/bin/sh' > .initrd/linuxrc
>barney /home/ipaq/dev/tmp # echo "/bin/sh" >> .initrd/linuxrc
>barney /home/ipaq/dev/tmp # rm .initrd/dev/console
>barney /home/ipaq/dev/tmp # mknod .initrd/dev/console c 4 66
>barney /home/ipaq/dev/tmp # ./mkfs
>
>2) remove the "console=..." part from startup.txt
>
>barney /home/ipaq/dev/tmp # cat startup.txt
>set KERNEL zImage
>set MTYPE 341
>set INITRD initrd
>set CMDLINE "root=/dev/ram0 rw init=/linuxrc cachepolicy=writethrough"
>bootlinux
>
>3) start minicom on pc with the following settings:
>
>barney /home/ipaq/dev/tmp # cat /etc/minicom/minirc.irda
># Machine-generated file - use "minicom -s" to change parameters.
>pu baudrate 9600
>pu bits 8
>pu parity N
>pu stopbits 1
>pu rtscts No
>
>4) put ipaq in place and start haret, so i get in minicom
>
>BusyBox v0.60.5 (2004.01.12-19:49+0000) Built-in shell (ash)
>Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
>
>sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
># dmesg
>Linux version 2.6.1-rmk0-hh0 (ipaq_at_barney) (gcc version 3.3.2) #1 Wed
>Feb 18 14:31:04 CET 2004
>CPU: XScale-PXA255 [69052d06] revision 6 (ARMv5TE)
>...
>
>the kernel was compiled with Michael's h2200_config__jan29a
>
>Thats it for now, hope it works for you too :)
>
>
>Keep up the *great* work and happy hacking
>
>Danny
>
>
>On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 14:05, Pattrick Hueper wrote:
>
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>i just recently joined the h2200-port list, i have an h2210 and would
>>like to help porting... i have some experience in programming for an ARM
>>based CPU under pSOS... other than that mostly Windows application
>>programming. I started looking at the handhelds. org website and wanted
>>to try the support thus far.
>>
>>Since my laptop does not have a serial port, i would like to get started
>>seeing the boot via my IR port, i followed the setup instructions i
>>found in the wiki and also in the h2200-port list...
>>
>>So far i have gotten the following to work:
>>
>>I have downloaded the toolchain, kernel, starterkit, built the kernel
>>using Michael's h2200_config_jan29a, and installed haret and booted the
>>kernel on my h2210, it doesnt always boot (thermometer doesnt turn red)
>>but after hard reset it does most of the times, however, i dont see
>>anything on the IR console...
>>
>>I followed the instructions i found:
>>- made sure CONFIG_SERIAL_PXA_SIR is set
>>- changed startup.txt to "console=ttyS2,115200n8"
>>- on my laptop unloaded all ir* drivers
>>
>>if i do cat /dev/ttyS1 on my laptop and try to send a contact from the
>>PDA via infrared, i see characters coming out of ttyS1, same with
>>minicom, i also tried Andrews suggestion with my digital video camera, i
>>can see the diode blinking when sending the contact, but when booting
>>the kernel it stays dark... so i suppose its not sending anything...
>>
>>I saw a warning when building the kernel:
>>
>>in file drivers/serial/pxa.c, line 64
>>
>>#warning "PLATFORM_SIR_ON/OFF not defined, SIR must be enabled in
>>platform initialization code!"
>>
>>but investigating that, i only found PLATFORM_SIR_ON/OFF defined in
>>asm/arch/aximx5-gpio.h, and there only in an #if 0...#endif, so its
>>never defined...
>>
>>(btw, there seems to be an error in line 61, same file which says:
>>
>>#if !defined PLATFORM_SIR_OFF || !defined PLATFORM_SIR_OFF
>>
>>the second PLATFORM_... should be PLATFORM_SIR_ON, i guess...)
>>
>>Any suggestions what else i might try? I saw that in the config file
>>CONFIG_IRDA is set, as well as CONFIG_IRTTY_SIR and CONFIG_IRPORT_SIR,
>>is it possible, that these somehow disturb the raw access to the IR
>>serial port? I might try unsetting them when i have time...
>>
>>Anyway, i really hope to be of some help to the project, even with my
>>limited experience and time...
>>
>>Greetings,
>>
>>Patty
>>
>>Andrew Zabolotny wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 13:54:06 +1100
>>>Marcus Brown <marcusbrutus_at_internode.on.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>I'd like to be able to have something similar to irdadump as a
>>>>sanity check. My old method of testing serial mice didn't work
>>>>(ie. cat /dev/ttyS1) with a "cat: /dev/ttyS1: Input/output error".
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>This means either a) somebody already uses ttyS1 (try as root:
>>>fuser -v /dev/ttyS1), or your computer simply has no ttyS1 (AKA COM2).
>>>What kind of IrDA dongle are you using? A real serial dongle? Or some
>>>USB gadget? If it is in a laptop perhaps it uses some other kind of
>>>serial connection... try all serial ports, look in dmesg file which
>>>serial ports there are, or in /dev/tts/*.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Any easy way of passively watching the comm in tandem with minicom?
>>>>Do I need to initiate anything in minicom?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>If you have a hand camera, you can try to look through the visor at the
>>>IR transmitter. With my Sony Handicam I have easily debugged such
>>>problems in the past - only the data sequence has to be relatively long,
>>>e.g. send some file with minicom and you should see the IR diode bright.
>>>Same from PDA side - run linux to start booting and look through the
>>>visor at it's IR diode - it should flash.
>>>
>>>--
>>>Greetings,
>>> Andrew
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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