If you have a Windows 7 installation (as it should be pre-installed) and with the Window’s Qualcomm driver’s loaded, find the driver log directory.

e.g. C:\ProgramData\QUALCOMM\QDLService2k

There should be two files, Options2kHP.txt and QDLService2kHP.txt.

Open Options2kHP.txt and you should see 3 lines similar to :-

C:\Program Files\Qualcomm\Images\HP\UMTS\AMSS.mbn
C:\Program Files\Qualcomm\Images\HP\UMTS\Apps.mbn
C:\Program Files\Qualcomm\Images\HP\0\UQCN.mbn

Copy these 3 files listed into

/lib/firmware/gobi

The other file is a log file of the firmware loading done by the Windows driver if you’re curious.

The device ID for the firmware loader on the HP 5310m, un2420 module is 0x241d.
The device ID for the modem is 0x251d.
If the firmware is not loaded, you should see the firmware loader device.
If the firmware is loaded correctly, you should only see the modem device.

Short Instructions (Request in comments if you need debugging/testing instructions).

Download, compile and install the updated qcserial driver.qcserial_5Jan10
Download, compile and install the modified gobi_loader.gb2kload_5Jan10
Reboot and pray that network manager now shows your modem

*UDEV ISNT WORKING AT THE MOMENT … WILL FIX SOON … Run in manually like below…*

madox@madox-5310m:~$ lsusb -d 03f0:251d
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 03f0:251d Hewlett-Packard

Blah blah

Gobi Loader manually run and output

madox@madox-5310m:~/projects/gb2kload$ ./gobi_loader /dev/ttyUSB0 /lib/firmware/gobi
QDL protocol server request sent
01 51 43 4f 4d 20 68 69 67 68 20 73 70 65 65 64
20 70 72 6f 74 6f 63 6f 6c 20 68 73 74 00 00 00
00 04 04 30 03 0b
QDL protocol server response received
7e 0d 05 00 00 00 00 04 e4 7e
QDL protocol server request sent (Retry as gobi2000)
01 51 43 4f 4d 20 68 69 67 68 20 73 70 65 65 64
20 70 72 6f 74 6f 63 6f 6c 20 68 73 74 00 00 00
00 05 05 30 07 48
QDL protocol server response received (Retry as gobi2000)
7e 02 51 43 4f 4d 20 68 69 67 68 20 73 70 65 65
64 20 70 72 6f 74 6f 63 6f 6c ff ff ff ff 24 00
17 5c 05 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 30 d6 8a 7e
QDL protocol server request sent
25 05 2c 50 a9 00 01 00 00 00 04 00 00 40 97
QDL protocol server response received
7e 26 00 00 01 00 00 00 04 52 65 7e
QDL protocol server request sent
27 00 00 00 00 00 00 2c 50 a9 00 db ae
QDL protocol server sent 1048576 bytes of image
QDL protocol server sent 1048576 bytes of image
QDL protocol server sent 1048576 bytes of image
QDL protocol server sent 1048576 bytes of image
QDL protocol server sent 1048576 bytes of image
QDL protocol server sent 1048576 bytes of image
QDL protocol server sent 1048576 bytes of image
QDL protocol server sent 1048576 bytes of image
QDL protocol server sent 1048576 bytes of image
QDL protocol server sent 1048576 bytes of image
QDL protocol server sent 610348 bytes of image
QDL protocol server response received
7e 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 14 39 7e
QDL protocol server request sent
25 06 2c 60 2f 00 01 00 00 00 04 00 00 81 0e
QDL protocol server response received
7e 26 00 00 01 00 00 00 04 52 65 7e
QDL protocol server request sent
27 00 00 00 00 00 00 2c 60 2f 00 69 f0
QDL protocol server sent 1048576 bytes of image
QDL protocol server sent 1048576 bytes of image
QDL protocol server sent 1007660 bytes of image
QDL protocol server response received
7e 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 14 39 7e
QDL protocol server request sent
25 0d 44 24 00 00 01 00 00 00 04 00 00 50 90
QDL protocol server response received
7e 26 00 00 01 00 00 00 04 52 65 7e
QDL protocol server request sent
27 00 00 00 00 00 00 44 24 00 00 b9 49
QDL protocol server sent 9284 bytes of image
QDL protocol server response received
7e 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 14 39 7e
QDL protocol server request sent
29 bb 4c
Firmware Loading Complete

You might need to kill modem-manager if you’re doing this manually…

sudo pkill modem-manager

Other than the annoying thing that I couldn’t download it using Firefox or Linux, and that you need to update using Windows and HTC Sync… its awesome.  Even though it’s a Taiwan ChungHwa ROM, there is an English option luckily

In addition to the Sense UI and its wonderful feature set, another interesting but hidden away feature is “Mobile Internet Sharing”, aka tethering!  Azilink is now redundant with this new firmware, and honestly I was getting annoyed with Azilink’s performance and constant dropping out.  On Ubuntu at least, it was ‘plug-and-play’ without any other tricks.  Awesome.

Now I’m not so jealous about all the HTC Hero’s my friends and relatives have…

Photos (pretty boring) after the break.

Neat little package

The toys just keep coming in!  Another one of those wallet killing impulsive orders whilst I was sick in bed last week just arrived today, a USB-CAN bus converter module by EasySync that promises a great interface and should work in Linux!  This will give a little bump start to my Mazda CAN Bus / mChumby projects.

Note : EasySync UK’s online form doesn’t allow international shipping but a short E-mail or two managed that.  There is a US subsidiary with US and international shipping, but the international shipping rates on the US site is plain ridiculous [$68USD to ship a $88 device to Australia].

Note 2 : I hear the interface is mimicking the Lawicel CAN-USB interface…only hearsay…

Plugged it in – didn’t work.  Doh!  Took a peek at the manual and website, nothing on Linux other than “Linux drivers provided”… So much for the marketing material, guess I have to try make it work myself.  (Yes I got it working, read on for the quick run-down post aimed at helping others)

Sneak peek inside the box

Now with the photos out of the way, a little bit of detective work is ahead of us… why doesn’t this thing work… I paid so much money for it to replace the qprotos adapter!

A little bit of lsusb (or cat /proc/bus/usb/devices if you’ve got usbdevfs) sleuthing later…

Bus 003 Device 004: ID 0403:fac6 Future Technology Devices International, Ltd
Device Descriptor:
 bLength                18
 bDescriptorType         1
 bcdUSB               2.00
 bDeviceClass            0 (Defined at Interface level)
 bDeviceSubClass         0
 bDeviceProtocol         0
 bMaxPacketSize0         8
 idVendor           0x0403 Future Technology Devices International, Ltd
 idProduct          0xfac6
 bcdDevice            6.00
 iManufacturer           1 EasySync
 iProduct                2 USB2-F-7001 CAN-Plus Adapter
 iSerial                 3 ESNFWLPL
 bNumConfigurations      1
 Configuration Descriptor:
 bLength                 9
 bDescriptorType         2
 wTotalLength           32
 bNumInterfaces          1
 bConfigurationValue     1
 iConfiguration          0
 bmAttributes         0x80
 (Bus Powered)
 MaxPower              150mA
 Interface Descriptor:
 bLength                 9
 bDescriptorType         4
 bInterfaceNumber        0
 bAlternateSetting       0
 bNumEndpoints           2
 bInterfaceClass       255 Vendor Specific Class
 bInterfaceSubClass    255 Vendor Specific Subclass
 bInterfaceProtocol    255 Vendor Specific Protocol
 iInterface              2 USB2-F-7001 CAN-Plus Adapter
 Endpoint Descriptor:
 bLength                 7
 bDescriptorType         5
 bEndpointAddress     0x81  EP 1 IN
 bmAttributes            2
 Transfer Type            Bulk
 Synch Type               None
 Usage Type               Data
 wMaxPacketSize     0x0040  1x 64 bytes
 bInterval               0
 Endpoint Descriptor:
 bLength                 7
 bDescriptorType         5
 bEndpointAddress     0x02  EP 2 OUT
 bmAttributes            2
 Transfer Type            Bulk
 Synch Type               None
 Usage Type               Data
 wMaxPacketSize     0x0040  1x 64 bytes
 bInterval               0
Device Status:     0x0000
 (Bus Powered)

Yup definitely a FTDI device, even with the FTDI vendor ID (Did I mention I love FTDI?).  Looks like EasySync decided they wanted their own unique product ID, unfortunately that means the vanilla ftdi_sio drive won’t pick it up without a little bit of coercing.

The little bit of coercing goes like…

modprobe ftdi_sio vendor=0×0403 product=0xfac6

And bingo…

[ 6372.229046] usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
[ 6372.437247] usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 6372.439834] ftdi_sio 2-2:1.0: FTDI USB Serial Device converter detected
[ 6372.439872] usb 2-2: Detected FT232RL
[ 6372.439934] usb 2-2: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now attached to ttyUSB0

Using putty to connect to ttyUSB0 at 115200, and typing “H” followed by “Enter” gives us

=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= PuTTY log 2009.06.30 21:23:18 =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=
H
List of Supported Commands
O - Open CAN Channel
C - Close CAN Channel
t - Transmit Standard Frame
T - Transmit Extended Frame
F - Read Status Flag
V - USB2-F-7001 Version
N - Serial Number of USB2-F-7001
Z - TimeStamp Option On/Off
S - Set CAN Bit Rate
s - Set BRGCON Registers
m - Set Acceptance Mask
M - Set Acceptance Filter
B - Enter Bootload Mode
L - Set Listen Mode
E - Clear Buffers and Echo Char
R - Reset USB2-F-7001
H, ? or h - Help on USB2-F-7001 Commands

Only problem is that its Mac style line endings.  Even the append CR to LF option in putty is useless because the stream seems to be CR without LF…  Doesn’t hurt too much except displaying it is a bit annoying.

The EasySync USB-CAN adapter’s pinout is pretty much standard DB9 for CAN Bus and all I had to do was connect my existing J1962 (aka OBD-II aka DLC-2) cable on and onto the car I went.

A couple of short “S6″ (500kbps) “L” (Open connection for listen mode) commands later, I had CAN data being spat back at me

t04680601FF0000000000
t04680601FF0000000000
t04680601FF0000000000
t04680601FF0000000000
t04680601FF0000000000
t20F8FFFF27104000FF01
t2118FFFF000040000001
t4B082710271027102710
t19080000000000000000

All is good…except I just deleted my Chumby Development Virtual Machine a few hours ago…ooops…another day before I use this neat little adapter for mChumby.

Download the Citrix Linux client (v11) from :-
http://www.citrix.com/English/ss/downloads/index.asp
URL mileage may vary, go back to the home page if its not right.

Unpack the tarball and install… e.g.

tar -xvzf linuxx86-11.0.140395.tar.gz
sudo ./setupwfc

Might be missing a ‘cd’ step here obviously…
If run using sudo, default installs to /usr/lib/ICAClient

Confirm it doesn’t run because of libmotif

/usr/lib/ICAClient/wfcmgr
/usr/lib/ICAClient/wfcmgr: error while loading shared libraries: libXm.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Download a 32bit (i386) Open Motif package from :-
http://ftp.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/multiverse/o/openmotif/

Rip out libXm from it…

$ dpkg -x libmotif3_2.2.3-4_i386.deb ./tmp
$ cd ./tmp
~/tmp$ cd usr/lib
~/tmp/usr/lib$ ls
libMrm.so.3      libUil.so.3      libXm.so.3      X11
libMrm.so.3.0.2  libUil.so.3.0.2  libXm.so.3.0.2
~/tmp/usr/lib$ sudo cp libXm.so.3 /usr/lib32/
~/tmp/usr/lib$ cd /usr/lib32
/usr/lib32$ sudo ln -s libXm.so.3 libXm.so.4

Then this stupid error…
You have not chosen to trust “Equifax Secure Global eBusiness CA-1″, the issuer of the servers security certificate (SSL error 61).

Download the root 1 (Base64) Cert from :-
http://www.geotrust.com/resources/root-certificates/index.html
Change the extension to .crt
Copy it to Citrix Installation Path/ICAClient/keystore/cacerts

$ mv Equifax_Secure_Global_eBusiness_CA-1.cer Equifax_Secure_Global_eBusiness_CA-1.crt
$ sudo cp Equifax_Secure_Global_eBusiness_CA-1.crt /usr/lib/ICAClient/keystore/cacerts/

Set firefox to open the ICA with /usr/lib/ICAClient/wfica

Voila…

Need to tidy this post up in the future

How to install Adobe Flash Plugin 64 Bit for Ubuntu 9.04

A lot of the tutorials/guides online will tell you to use nspluginwrapper or similar.  Adobe has released an ‘alpha’ version of their 64 bit player which is pretty stable so far…

Download it from :-http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

Unpack the archive and copy the only file to the Firefox plugins folder in ‘/usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins‘ :-

sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins

How to install Skype 64 bit for Ubuntu 9.04

You would think you could just go to www.skype.com and ask for a download and it’ll be like the Adobe site detecting that you have a 64 bit system right?  Wrong (at time of writing).  Annoyingly that’ll just let you download an i386 package!

You could manually remedy this by downloading the AMD64 .deb package from :-
http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-ubuntu-amd64

Everything else?

So far the respositories have been kind to me… but i’ll update if I run into any other troubles

Voila happy 64 bit Ubuntu’ing.

Test of revised layout

A few interesting tidbits were learned from the experiments :-

1. HaXe + Geany are great for developing flash widgets for the Chumby
2. Gnash doesn’t render the same as Linux Adobe Flash
3. Chumby renders the same as Adobe Flash
4. Text vertical alignment in flash is crap

A bit of background and a demo video of the widget on the Chumby after the break.

The last post describes my resurrection of a two year old project.  Here’s a super short summary with many pictures, photos and videos!

The original layout

Original concept layout...

Original layout prototyped

Test of original layout

I thought the speed gauge didn’t look too bad but I got convinced by a friend to redesign the layout.  Plus I really didn’t know why I needed a song name on the display or the blinker indicators…

The revised layout

Gah Gnash vs Adobe Flash

I’ve been using Geany to write the HaXe code for this and it is pretty easy to link it in with Gnash to view the resultant Flash when compiling/executing.  So all it all it seemed like a good package for flash development until I realised Gnash doesn’t render quite the same as Adobe… (“Gah” is my sign of exasperation that Gnash renders the flash differently…).

That’s not the important bit…the important bit is that it doesn’t render like the Chumby either!!!  ARGH.  (P.S. The fault is with Gnash rendering textfields vertically centered whereas flash render’s them top aligned, easy enough to fix…)

Gnash vs Flash player in Ubuntu

Chumby vs Gnash vs Linux Flash

Chumby gesture interface test video

Works pretty well I have to say   What do you think?

Why do I need a toolchain for programming ARMs?

1. I found a LPC2378-STK development board in my room
2. I want to give ARM programming a try (PS WinAVR is great for programming AVRs)
3. I found I have some spare ARM7 LPC2378′s lying around (WTF?) and thought I’ll actually complete my Chumby Speedometer on my car project!

The compile process should be pretty straight forward, but I made a few stuffup’s along the way.

• I had originally wanted to keep it neat and install to a new directory, then the PATH annoyance thing hit me.  Setting the path under my user shell didn’t carry over when using sudo which is required to make install.  Solved using sudo -s, but then in the end i just redid it all and installed to /usr/local/.
• Realised (should have known) that you need ‘GMP’ and ‘MPFR’ to compile GCC.  Available as packages libgmp3-dev and libmpfr-dev in Ubuntu.
• Did my usual of forgetting to set up the prefix install location when configuring…minor boo boo

Setting it all up

Install any packages you need… build-essential is probably essential… GMP and MPFR could be got by using

sudo apt-get install libgmp3-dev libmpfr-dev

Set-up some directories…I opted to use create an ‘arm-elf’ directory in my home to hold both the source and build directories…

cd ~
mkdir arm-elf arm-elf/src
cd ~/arm-elf/src

Get the latest sources…

Get the latest sources for binutils, gcc, newlib, insight (click the links if you need).  The versions I used should be obvious from the filenames below.  Just be wary that the insight front page is not kept up to date but you’ll find the latest if you follow any of the release links anyway.

wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/binutils-2.19.tar.bz2
wget http://gcc.releasenotes.org/releases/gcc-4.3.2/gcc-4.3.2.tar.bz2
wget ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/newlib/newlib-1.16.0.tar.gz
wget ftp://sourceware.org/pub/insight/releases/insight-6.8.tar.bz2

Unpack the sources…

tar -xvjf binutils-2.19.tar.bz2
tar -xvjf gcc-4.3.2.tar.bz2
tar -xvzf newlib-1.16.0.tar.gz
tar -xvjf insight-6.8.tar.bz2

Tweak the gcc source config…

Make a minor config tweak to the gcc source.  Edit gcc-4.3.2/gcc/config/arm/t-arm-elf and append mno-thumb-interwork/mthumb-interwork after MULTILIB_OPTIONS and normal interwork after MULTILIB_DIRNAMES.  I used nano, see the screenshot below if I haven’t been too clear

nano ~/arm-elf/src/gcc-4.3.2/gcc/config/arm/t-arm-elf

Start building with fingers crossed…

Now we can start building the toolchain.  Note my prefix is /usr/local.  First off binutils!

cd ~/arm-elf/
mkdir build build/binutils-2.19 build/insight-6.8 build/gcc-4.3.2 build/newlib-1.16.0

cd ~/arm-elf/build/binutils-2.19
~/arm-elf/src/binutils-2.19/configure –target=arm-elf –prefix=/usr/local –enable-interwork –enable-multilib –with-float=soft –disable-werror
sudo make all install

Next just the gcc part of gcc…note we configure the newlib src headers here…

cd ~/arm-elf/build/gcc-4.3.2
~/arm-elf/src/gcc-4.3.2/configure –target=arm-elf –prefix=/usr/local –enable-interwork –enable-multilib –with-float=soft –disable-werror –enable-languages=”c,c++” –with-newlib  –with-headers=~/arm-elf/src/newlib-1.16.0/newlib/libc/include
sudo make all-gcc install-gcc

Now newlib…

cd ~/arm-elf/build/newlib-1.16.0
~/arm-elf/src/newlib-1.16.0/configure –target=arm-elf –prefix=/usr/local –enable-interwork –enable-multilib –with-float=soft –disable-werror
sudo make all install

Coming back for the rest off gcc (needed newlib)

cd ~/arm-elf/build/gcc-4.3.2
sudo make all install

…and finally insight gdb

cd ~/arm-elf/build/insight-6.8
~/arm-elf/src/insight-6.8/configure –target=arm-elf –prefix=/usr/local –enable-interwork –enable-multilib –with-float=soft –disable-werror
sudo make all install

Voila done!  I should now have all my arm-elf tools!  Just a check…

madox@madox-laptop:/usr/local/bin$ ls arm*
arm-elf-addr2line  arm-elf-gcc        arm-elf-insight  arm-elf-run
arm-elf-ar         arm-elf-gcc-4.3.2  arm-elf-ld       arm-elf-size
arm-elf-as         arm-elf-gccbug     arm-elf-nm       arm-elf-strings
arm-elf-c++        arm-elf-gcov       arm-elf-objcopy  arm-elf-strip
arm-elf-c++filt    arm-elf-gdb        arm-elf-objdump
arm-elf-cpp        arm-elf-gdbtui     arm-elf-ranlib
arm-elf-g++        arm-elf-gprof      arm-elf-readelf

Yup all there and runs   Now the search for the LPC header files… argh

PS : If you copy and paste my commands, be wary of line breaks… I didn’t put \’s anywhere…

Gimp should come pre-installed with Ubuntu.  If you don’t have it installed for any reason (uninstalled?), install it using the command :

sudo apt-get install gimp

Next you need UFRaw which is a utility to read and manipulate raw images from digital cameras.  Or in our case, it is better to use the GIMP UFRaw plugin.  Get it by using the command :

sudo apt-get install gimp-ufraw

Now wasn’t that easy?  Now all you need to do is simply right click on any .CR2 file, Select Open With > Open With “Gimp Image Editor” and GIMP UFRaw dialog should appear like below.

UFRaw Dialog

I had to collapse some of the options to make the dialog appear on my small laptop (800 vertical pixel) screen, so if you can’t see the “OK” button don’t fret and resize the window.  There are a few options you can tweak with before you need to click “OK” as shown below.

UFRaw Dialog Options

There’s crop options too… but wonder why the ‘usual’ print aspects aren’t there

More UFRaw Options

And finally, the CR2 raw image makes its way into GIMP for glorious editing… I think I’ll add whiskers and cat’s ears to her face now…

CR2 image opened in GIMP

This post is dedicated to Andy Au!

 ________________________________________
/ This is a very very useful and         \
| productive program available in Ubuntu |
\ and other Debian distributions...      /
 ----------------------------------------
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||

I actually found a legitimate use for it!  It just happened that I was supposed to get a thermal printer to work over a RS232 RS485 converter over a Ethernet link all powered from 24V powered by an isolated 110V-24V converter which was fed by 240V…. Yup… Cowsay was the perfect print test material!

How do you get it?

sudo apt-get install cowsay

Usage is pretty self explanatory and the man page, but one nifty feature is that you can replace the cow with a library of animals using the ‘-f‘ option.  The list of animals is stored in (for Ubuntu anyway) in /usr/share/cowsay/cows/

List of animals…

madox@madox-laptop:~$ ls /usr/share/cowsay/cows/
apt.cow             elephant-in-snake.cow  milk.cow             supermilker.cow
beavis.zen.cow      eyes.cow               moofasa.cow          surgery.cow
bong.cow            flaming-sheep.cow      moose.cow            telebears.cow
bud-frogs.cow       ghostbusters.cow       mutilated.cow        three-eyes.cow
bunny.cow           head-in.cow            ren.cow              turkey.cow
cheese.cow          hellokitty.cow         satanic.cow          turtle.cow
cower.cow           kiss.cow               sheep.cow            tux.cow
daemon.cow          kitty.cow              skeleton.cow         udder.cow
default.cow         koala.cow              small.cow            vader.cow
dragon-and-cow.cow  kosh.cow               sodomized.cow        vader-koala.cow
dragon.cow          luke-koala.cow         sodomized-sheep.cow  www.cow
duck.cow            mech-and-cow.cow       stegosaurus.cow
elephant.cow        meow.cow               stimpy.cow

Now you simply use it by typing the following command

cowsay -f animal whatyouwanttheanimaltosayhere

The perfect case of a bad example…

madox@madox-laptop:~$ cowsay -f sodomized WTF? This is sooo wrong...
 ____________________________
< WTF? This is sooo wrong... >
 ----------------------------
      \                _
       \              (_)
        \   ^__^       / \
         \  (oo)\_____/_\ \
            (__)\       ) /
                ||----w ((
                ||     ||>>

Ok…maybe not so fun…but other more sane selections exist!  Tweaks on the animal eyes and more if you explore the man pages.

cd /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.4/plugins

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so

Assuming you already had the sun-java packages (anyway if not just get it).