[E3-hacking] Linux 2.6 & USB _almost_ works

J. Snell paradoxheart at gmail.com
Mon Feb 20 21:06:26 GMT 2006


Excellent! I can confirm that it works a treat for me. Thanks for the
hard work Mark.
Now to go compile a driver for my USB ethernet adapter. :-)

On 2/20/06, Mark Underwood <basicmark at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- Mark Underwood <basicmark at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > --- Adam Spence <files at aspence.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > Hey Mark,
> > >
> > > It's a small world isn't it! So, what have you actually got the E3 to do
> > > yet?
> > >
> > > Adam
> >
> > Hi Adam,
> >
> > Good to hear from you. Have you got an E3?
> >
> > I have got a (slightly broken) shell and working USB so you can work on a driver, put it onto
> > the
> > USB stick, mount the USB stick, and insmod it (thus saving you the 3 1/2 minute wait when
> > uplading
> > the kernel + u-boot + rootfs). You should also be able to compile simple programs for the E3 and
> > run them, but with any sound or display your a bit limited, but I'm working on that ;-).
> >
> > Mark
> >
>
> Just to let you know Jonathan has kindly hosted my release which is available from:
>
> http://the.earth.li/pub/e3/
> ftp://the.earth.li/pub/e3/
>
> Have fun!
>
> Mark
>
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: e3-hacking-bounces at earth.li [mailto:e3-hacking-bounces at earth.li] On
> > > Behalf Of Mark Underwood
> > > Sent: 17 February 2006 22:40
> > > To: e3-hacking at earth.li
> > > Subject: [E3-hacking] Linux 2.6 & USB _almost_ works
> > >
> > > I have been hacking around with the 2.6.15 kernel and now have got the USB
> > > host to successfully register. It detects a USB device that I plug into it,
> > > but then fails to get the interrupt (the kernel prints out a time out error
> > > message). Looking at the proc enteries from the 2.4 kernel (from the
> > > website) the interrupt number is the same so I guess that there is some init
> > > code missing. Please could someone boot their E3, plug & unplug a USB device
> > > and do 'cat /proc/interrupts' and confirm that the usb-ohci interrupt has
> > > seen some interrupts.
> > >
> > > Many thanks,
> > >
> > > Mark
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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