wouldn't it be easier to use an UART and an UART to 1-wire conversion chip?

Regards,
Iztok

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Gregg Levine <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:05 AM, Mauricio Culibrk <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I'm sorry for bothering but I'm starting pulling my hair on this problem I
>> have...
>> I tried to search the mailing lists and elsewhere but I'm unable to find any
>> relevant information...
>>
>> The goal is to make owfs work with the kernel w1-gpio-master driver.
>>
>> I'm trying to setup the owfs on an embedded board - really a "router" -
>> netgear wgt634u - a mips (LE) based machine using the kernel w1-gpio master
>> driver and a spare gpio pin.
>> The software (os) used is OpenWrt trunk r23070 (build from scratch) with
>> kernel 2.6.34.5.
>>
>> Linux WGT634U 2.6.34.5 #1 Wed Oct 13 16:10:34 CEST 2010 mips GNU/Linux
>>
>> The W1 subsystem is actually working good.
>> After loading all the required modules:
>> fuse                   49168  0
>> w1_gpio                  752  0
>> w1_gpio_custom           864  0
>> wire                   17584  1 w1_gpio
>> cn                      4336  1 wire
>> nfnetlink               1712  0
>>
>> Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30.
>> Driver for 1-wire Dallas network protocol.
>> Custom GPIO-based W1 driver version 0.1.1
>> w1_master_driver w1 bus master: Family 10 for 10.00080198f8e6.d8 is not
>> registered.
>>
>> I can see the w1 bus and the attached DS18S20 slave:
>>
>> r...@wgt634u:~# ls /sys/bus/w1/
>> devices            drivers            drivers_autoprobe  drivers_probe
>> uevent
>>
>> r...@wgt634u:~# ls /sys/bus/w1/devices/
>> 10-00080198f8e6  w1 bus master
>>
>> If I also load the kernel w1-thermal driver I can see the w1 system is
>> actually working as expected. I can read the temperature from the sensor:
>>
>> r...@wgt634u:~# ls /sys/bus/w1/devices/10-00080198f8e6/
>> driver     id         name       subsystem  uevent     w1_slave
>>
>> r...@wgt634u:~# cat /sys/bus/w1/devices/10-00080198f8e6/w1_slave
>> 30 00 4b 46 ff ff 09 10 12 : crc=12 YES
>> 30 00 4b 46 ff ff 09 10 12 t=24187
>>
>> Other than for testing the kernel w1-slave-thermal driver is not loaded,
>> just the w1-gpio master driver is.
>>
>> I'm using the latest owfs sources:
>> r...@wgt634u:~# owfs -V
>> owfs version:
>>         2.8p2
>> libow version:
>>         2.8p2
>>
>> So, to the problem!
>> I'm unable to make owfs/owserver/owhttps to "work/talk" with the w1 kernel
>> driver.
>> After starting the owfs/owserver it "hungs" for some reason. Here is the
>> debug output:
>>
>> r...@wgt634u:~# owserver --w1 --debug -p 4000
>>    CALL: ow_parsename.c:FS_ParsedName_anywhere(90) path=[]
>>   DEBUG: owlib.c:SetupTemperatureLimits(79) Globals temp limits 0C 100C (for
>> simulated adapters)
>>   DEBUG: owserver.c:main(152) main_threadid = 715849728
>>   DEBUG: ow_w1_list.c:w1_list_masters(54) Sending w1 bus master list message
>>   DEBUG: ow_w1_send.c:W1_send_msg(119) Netlink send -----------------
>> NLMSGHDR: len=48 type=3 (NLMSG_DONE) flags=0 seq=0|1 pid=880
>> CN_MSG: idx/val=3/1 (CN_W1_IDX) seq=0|1 ack=1 len=12 flags=0
>> W1_NETLINK_MSG: type=6 (W1_LIST_MASTERS) len=0 id=0
>> Byte buffer Data, length=0
>>    <>
>>   DEBUG: ow_w1_dispatch.c:W1_Dispatch(125) Dispatch loop
>>   DEBUG: ow_w1_parse.c:Netlink_Parse_Get(114) Wait to peek at message
>>   DEBUG: ow_w1_parse.c:Netlink_Parse_Get(122) Pre-parse header: 16 bytes
>> len=52 type=3 seq=0|1 pid=0
>>   DEBUG: ow_w1_parse.c:Netlink_Parse_Get(144) Netlink read -----------------
>> NLMSGHDR: len=52 type=3 (NLMSG_DONE) flags=0 seq=0|1 pid=0
>> CN_MSG: idx/val=3/1 (CN_W1_IDX) seq=0|1 ack=0 len=16 flags=0
>> W1_NETLINK_MSG: type=6 (W1_LIST_MASTERS) len=4 id=65544
>> Byte buffer Data, length=4
>> --000: 01 00 00CONNECT: ow_zero.c:ZeroConf_Announce(144) Zeroconf and/or
>> Multithreading are not enabled
>>  00
>>    <....>
>>   DEBUG: ow_w1_dispatch.c:Dispatch_Packet(92) Sending this packet to root
>> bus
>>   DEBUG: ow_w1_dispatch.c:W1_Dispatch(125) Dispatch loop
>>   DEBUG: ow_w1_parse.c:Netlink_Parse_Get(114) Wait to peek at message
>>   DEBUG: ow_w1_list.c:w1_parse_master_list(64) W1 List 1 masters
>>   DEBUG: ow_w1_parse.c:Netlink_Parse_Get(122) Pre-parse header: 16 bytes
>> len=48 type=3 seq=0|1 pid=0
>>
>> It seems to me the owfs is somehow having problems communicating with the
>> kernel w1 driver.
>> I have no more ideas on what to try/what to check.
>> Well, I'm really new to the owfs stuff but otherwise I have quite some
>> experience with OpenWrt, kernel modules/programming, 1-wire etc.
>> I took me some tries to figure out the OpenWrt W1 modules makefiles are
>> "broken" for proper support of the w1 kernel driver... it's missing the
>> "connector" suport by default.
>> I tried to compile the kernel & w1 modules "by hand" and to set all the
>> required options but the results were the same - no fun.
>>
>> I did not have time to test this identical setup on another platforms (mipe
>> BE (atheros) boards, ixp425 boards, sheevaplugs). Also, I have not tried
>> some i2c/usb/serial w1-masters as I not have them handy right now (basicaly
>> just to test owfs is working) - but I really need it to work with the kernel
>> w1-gpio driver...
>>
>> As far as I checked, owfs should work with the w1-gpio as I found quite a
>> lot of information about that, well, reference to other problems but the
>> "core" owfs <--> kernel-w1-gpio seems to be working/supported.
>>
>> Any suggestion/information would be more than welcome.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> M.Culibrk
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Hello!
> Actually you're heading the right direction completly. Why not post
> someplace your build steps. Such as how you created that run of
> "OpenWrt trunk r23070", and then the methods to compile it. Finally
> how you installed onto your router. Also was the router properly
> reinitialized after the whole steps.
>
> Also did you test the One-Wire hardware elsewhere first? Then on the
> router, and finally back again. List what happened when you tried to
> use the One-Wire hardware to sense room temperature via your Linux
> system.
>
> Also list what distribution you used for that.
>
> And no you did not bother us.
> -----
> Gregg C Levine [email protected]
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