Re: [no distro] What console s/w are linux people using to communicate with the Neo FR boot loader?

2009-01-15 Thread Fielder George Dowding
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Al Johnson openm...@mazikeen.demon.co.uk wrote: On Wednesday 14 January 2009, john dowd wrote: The communication works fine with neocon. Thanks. My problem now is that I follow the wiki for setting up the SD to be a backup system. I get into the boot loader

Re: [no distro] What console s/w are linux people using to communicate with the Neo FR boot loader?

2009-01-14 Thread Gothnet
john dowd wrote: I've been using minicom but its a disaster. Unless some has settings that they would like to share. Cheers!! -- John Dowd jdowd at slashdevslashnull dot org Search the wiki for a program called

Re: [no distro] What console s/w are linux people using to communicate with the Neo FR boot loader?

2009-01-14 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
john dowd jdowds...@gmail.com writes: I've been using minicom but its a disaster. Unless some has settings that they would like to share. picocom /dev/ttyACM0 under screen with ^a : slowpaste set to 20 ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Re: [no distro] What console s/w are linux people using to communicate with the Neo FR boot loader?

2009-01-14 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:38:30 -0800 (PST) Gothnet openm...@nastylittlehorse.net wrote: john dowd wrote: I've been using minicom but its a disaster. Unless some has settings that they would like to share. [...] Search the wiki for a program called neocon, that seemed to work for me.

Re: [no distro] What console s/w are linux people using to communicate with the Neo FR boot loader?

2009-01-14 Thread john dowd
Well, I tried Neocon, whenever I press a key I just get the message [closed] printed out for every key and no joy talking to the device. Is there a console program out there that works right now and that people are using to communicate with the Neo Freerunner? On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:48 PM,

Re: [no distro] What console s/w are linux people using to communicate with the Neo FR boot loader?

2009-01-14 Thread john dowd
OK, it was a integration problem between the keyboard and my chair. I ran it as root and voila it works. Thanks everyone who responded. Cheers!! On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:08 PM, john dowd jdowds...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I tried Neocon, whenever I press a key I just get the message [closed]

Re: [no distro] What console s/w are linux people using to communicate with the Neo FR boot loader?

2009-01-14 Thread Al Johnson
I just use minicom, connect to /dev/ttyACM0 and enable line wrap. If you could be more specific about what's wrong then perhaps I could help. On Wednesday 14 January 2009, john dowd wrote: Well, I tried Neocon, whenever I press a key I just get the message [closed] printed out for every key

Re: [no distro] What console s/w are linux people using to communicate with the Neo FR boot loader?

2009-01-14 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/1/14 john dowd jdowds...@gmail.com: OK, it was a integration problem between the keyboard and my chair. :-) I haven't heard that one before! Neil ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org