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Comment on The easy way to get serial terminal in Linux by Jon Smirl

Jon Smirl — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:24:11 +0000

Check out picocom too

Comment on How to capture source changes to an OpenEmbedded package by Advanced OpenEmbedded | Kosagi Blog

Advanced OpenEmbedded | Kosagi Blog — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:05:26 +0000

[...] These instructions are based on http://bec-systems.com/site/456/capture-oe-source-changes [...]

Comment on How to implement an interrupt driven GPIO input in Linux by Beaglebot – A BeagleBoard based robot | Yet Another Hacker's Blog

Beaglebot – A BeagleBoard based robot | Yet Another Hacker's Blog — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:57:04 +0000

[...] sampling than polling). The interrupt is passed through to userspace on the BeagleBoard via the gpio_keys driver. Using expansion header pins as interrupts also requires changing the mux settings. [...]

Comment on Linux Input Testing and Debugging by Button on Microscope QX3

Button on Microscope QX3 — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:29:47 +0000

[...] 1758 #if defined(CONFIG_INPUT) || defined(CONFIG_INPUT_MODULE) 1759 /* If the last button state is pressed, release it now! */ 1760 if (sd->params.qx3.button) { 1761 /* The camera latch will hold the pressed state until we reset 1762 the latch, so we do not reset sd->params.qx3.button now, to 1763 avoid a false keypress being reported the next sd_start */ 1764 input_report_key(gspca_dev->input_dev, KEY_CAMERA, 0); 1765 input_sync(gspca_dev->input_dev); 1766 } 1767 #endif You can try to catch KEY_CAMERA input event using the evtest utility as described http://bec-systems.com/site/209/linu…-and-debugging. [...]

Comment on Sprint 598U USB Broadband Modem in Embedded Systems by J Gerdsen

J Gerdsen — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:04:04 +0000

I am converting my AT&T card over to a Sprint 598U on an embedded machine and am unable to track down the PPP script information, the site appears to no longer be valid. Do you think you could help me and point me to a spot where I can find this information.

Comment on Best practices for kernel development with OpenEmbedded by goodbyegti

goodbyegti — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:24:25 +0000

Time and time again i come across your excellent guides, thanks Cliff!