Thursday, April 19th, 2007 by Marcin Juszkiewicz
Today I got few USB gadgets:
- Ethernet card (Damicom 9601 based)
- RS232 cable
- multi-port card-reader with USB 2.0 hub integrated (powered)
So during restructure of my USB network I tried to connect all my USB devices to desktop. With two external hubs I got out of ports…
Effect:
12:00 hrw@home:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 055: ID 0a46:9601 Davicom Semiconductor, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 054: ID 058f:6362 Alcor Micro Corp.
Bus 001 Device 053: ID 0fce:d016 Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB
Bus 001 Device 036: ID 058f:6254 Alcor Micro Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 059: ID 0525:a4a2 Netchip Technology, Inc. Linux-USB Ethernet/RNDIS Gadget
Bus 003 Device 058: ID 0424:223a Standard Microsystems Corp. 8-in-1 Card Reader
Bus 003 Device 057: ID 1457:5122
Bus 003 Device 056: ID 0421:0431 Nokia Mobile Phones
Bus 003 Device 055: ID 058f:9254 Alcor Micro Corp. Hub
Bus 003 Device 053: ID 04bf:0319 TDK Corp.
Bus 003 Device 046: ID 0a81:0205 Chesen Electronics Corp. PS/2 Keyboard+Mouse Adapter
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 011: ID 04b8:082f Seiko Epson Corp.
Bus 002 Device 010: ID 046d:c70a Logitech, Inc.
Bus 002 Device 009: ID 046d:c70e Logitech, Inc.
Bus 002 Device 008: ID 046d:0b02 Logitech, Inc.
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
The list contain:
- USB Cup heater with integrated USB 1.1 Hub
- Nokia 770
- Sharp Zaurus C760
- FIC Neo1973
- Davicom Ethernet card
- EPSON Stylus DX3800
- TDK Bluetooth 1.1 dongle
- Logitech Bluetooth 2.0 EDR dongle
- PS/2 -> USB converter with optical mouse connected
- Hama multi-port card reader
- no-name multi-port card reader
- no-name multi-port card reader with integrated USB 2.0 Hub
- Sony Ericsson k750i phone
As result I got:
- 14 usb-storage devices
- 3 serial ports
- 3 network interfaces
- 3 input devices (Logitech Bluetooth need to be switched from HID to HCI)
And everything was working, needed /dev/ entries were created and HAL managed to show me proper tree with all devices. Both hubs were powered during test.
Now I disconnected most of them and left only needed ones.
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Friday, March 23rd, 2007 by Marcin Juszkiewicz
In February I was at FOSDEM. As OpenEmbedded project had a booth there I took ProGear machine to show x86 machine running Ångström distribution. When I returned to home I had over 400 mails in inbox (result of few days without reading mail).
Week ago I was at Pingwinaria. This time I took laptop from Ania. It was Toshiba with 15.4″ screen and MS Windows installed… So big, heavy and without Linux. But I was able to read mails so only ~200 mails was left to read after conference.
After that I decided that this is a time to buy laptop for own usage. It will be used only for conferences or other trips so it does not have to be powerful but small and light. Few guys from #oe, #openmoko suggested IBM ThinkPad X31/X32, one suggested PowerBook with G4 cpu. So now I am looking for cheap, used X31 or X32 (with WiFi, Bluetooth not required but would be nice). Contact me if you have one to sell for good price.
Why not something faster? I was thinking about buying AMD Turion X2 or Intel Core2 Duo to have machine powerful enough to do OpenEmbedded builds but I have quite fast 64bit desktop now which also work as build box so no need for fast portable machine. And such beast would not be small…
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Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007 by Marcin Juszkiewicz
During weekend Sean Moss-Pultz from FIC/OpenMoko announced long awaited OpenMoko 2007 RoadMap. What this mean to us, developers/users?
- We finally know when there will be release of phone for developers and when for users.
- Build environment setup is known.
- Neo1973 (first phone running OpenMoko) hardware specification is confirmed.
But what this mean to me?
I know about this project since OEDEM 2006 when Mickeyl told us few things about his Super Secret Project™: it will be phone without Irda but with Bluetooth (which was then unknown to be or not in Neo1973), with VGA screen and open source for nearly everything. And the nice part was: everything will be build using OpenEmbedded. About month later there was Open Source in Mobile” conference in Amsterdam where “Mystery Guest” introduced the Neo1973 phone and OpenMoko. First days were interesting — some of us were able to look at OpenMoko source before they discover that WebSVN is not closed ;)
Now I’m waiting for RoadMap Phase 0: Developer Preview. Why? I hope that I am one of those developers which will get Neo1973 phone for free ;D But I also want to look at their sources, look how it works, build it for checking stuff on my desktop or one of palmtops which are on my desk.
Anyway even if I will have to buy this phone during Phase 1: Official Developer Launch then I will gather needed funds and get one to hack, tweak, polish it.
I do not want to miss another popular gadget like I did with Nokia 770…
Wanna see Sean and Neo1973 phone?
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Tuesday, September 19th, 2006 by Marcin Juszkiewicz
Yesterday I signed papers to extend my current mobile contract and bought Sony Ericsson k750i phone to replace my 4-years old Nokia 6310i.
Phone is nice and packed of features:
- connectivity: irda, bluetooth, usb
- 2Mpx camera with flash leds
- FM radio
- media (music, video) player
- java
- memorystick duo slot (64M card by default)
I’m in process of moving all data from my old phone to new one — tried OpenSync today and with help of pmarat from #opensync I got Kitchensync working and transferred my KDE addressbook into phone. Later I will work on sending datas from 6310i -> home computer -> k750i, then will have to work on synchronizing 6210 with something as I have to move whole content of 6210 to 6310i (with syncing with Thunderbird in between).
And now I know that Bluetooth is nice technology — few clicks in Konqueror and I have access to all files inside of phone.
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Tuesday, January 31st, 2006 by Marcin Juszkiewicz
I have Socket Bluetooth Compact Flash card — it’s Rev F so it is based on Nokia DTL-1/DTL-4 card and use dtl1_cs driver.
Card lack any developer documentation, does not survive suspend/resume which make it very hard to use in Zaurus (I have to eject/insert it after each resume), is limited to 230400 bps… And have some extra problems — each time when I have it in my Zaurus C760 I wonder “will it work this time or not?” because by most of time it is not even seen:
root@c7x0:~# cardctl eject;cardctl insert;cardctl ident
Socket 0:
no product info available
root@c7x0:~# dmesg|tail -n1
cs: pcmcia_socket0: time out after reset.
Anyone want to exchange for any serial_cs based card?
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2005 by Marcin Juszkiewicz
Today I flashed my USB Bluetooth dongle to newer firmware — it had v134 from 2001 now have v524 from 2003 (nearly newest one). Getting needed data was not quite easy — TDK provided it with older drivers that available ones.
So currently I do not have not-yet-(re)flashed device… flashed mainboards bios, cd/rw, cd, dvd drives, gfx board, palmtops.. my other devices are not flashable.
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