On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 04:12:24PM +0100, Dan wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I have a NEO1973 and the "Set Console to USB" option does not appear in > u-boot. It's a pretty recent version, when I try and connect to the usb port > the client connects but does not display anything and I certainly can't send > any commands (crlf's appear as ^M)
it seems like you somehow have managed to overwrite/erase/corrupt the environment partition, or the dynenv OOB marker pointing to it :( This can really only be done by manual fiddling with the environment and/or the raw flash contents. There currently is no way how you can switch to usbtty unless you have console access. The default console of any u-boot that we ever distributed is the physical serial port (on the debug connector), since that technically is a safe choice. USB is very complex and there can be tons of reasons why it might not work. A physical serial port is therefore a safe choice, since it will always work. I understand that this is unfortunate if you don't have a debug board. But then, having usbtty as the default has different risks. We are considering to switch the default, but this needs implementation, testing and quite a bit of thought if this really is what we want. -- - Harald Welte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://openmoko.org/ ============================================================================ Software for the world's first truly open Free Software mobile phone
