Hi,
The `About e3-hacking' paragraph on the Mailman page isn't filled in.
http://www.earth.li/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/e3-hacking
I was wondering if it could be stated that the list is willing to
discuss the techinical side of hardware re-use of any of the Amstrad
Emailers, i.e. the E3's predecessors too, along with any legal issues
that arise from it.
That's based on what private email conversations I've had have been
covering in the last months.
Cheers,
Ralph.
Hi,
I'm slowly updating my Emailer pages. Sorry it's so slowly. One recent
addition is some details of a GBP25 CD Amstrad sent out in November
2004. As it says on the page, it would be interesting to know if the
other CDs out there are the same or different.
http://inputplus.co.uk/ralph/emailer/e3.html
Cheers,
Ralph.
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 09:48:52PM +0000, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 04:59:44PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > If anyone has a copy of the emailer source btw (or gets one for review
> > so has a download option ;)) then it would be nice to stick it up for
> > ftp for all.
> No one seems to have done this, and the offer Amstrad makes requires the
> sending off of £25 to them to cover admin and distribution costs rather
> than allowing a download of it. I did this a few days ago so will
> hopefully hear from them in the next week or so.
I've now received this and it's linked from:
http://www.earth.li/~noodles/hardware-e3.html
Interesting (to me at least) points:
* Camera source included and seems to present as a standard v4l device.
* The keyboard driver is a module (not included) - there's a stub
present presumably so basic init works.
* The Pegasus USB networking module is compiled in; I've confirmed it
initialises such a device, but see no network traffic (CONFIG_IP_PNP
and friends are enabled in the .config provided, but I guess this may
be from a debug tree?)
* There's Belkin USB serial device support in the .config as well, but I
can't see any output when I hook up such a device.
I've setup a list at:
http://www.earth.li/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/e3-hacking
for anyone who wants to discuss the hardware/software of the device.
What I'd really like to see is a dump of the flash from the device, in
the hope that the startup scripts might do something with the ethernet.
However I don't have the appropriate kit to be able to do this.
Alternatively it looks like there's a serial console on ttyS0 (UART1 on
the OMAP?), but I can't see any obvious pads where that's brought out
to.
(Oh, and as a semi related aside; if anyone has GPL contacts in Linksys
I'd be most interested to know about them - I'm completely failing to
get hold of kernel source for the WMA11B, which runs 2.4.17-rmk3-cot1.)
J.
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'Is the network broken?'." -- Paul Mc Auley, asr
