Hi feel a bit lost in the beginner steps of my mini2440. im on linux and want to start out by connect my board to my pc. Should i use the usb cabel or the serial? And i need to install a driver? Is there a simple tutorial out there that i missed? Thanks! :)
You will need both serial and USB. Serial for a remote terminal running on your host so you see what is going on as you boot the board and communicate with your board. USB for putting the bootloader, kernel and root filesystem on the board. Try this for starters: http://www.friendlyarm.net/dl.php?file=mini2440_manual.pdf
Thanks for your reply davef! I got the serial connection now using command: # screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200 Now I want the ftp connection. I haven't tested it anything yet but have some questions. 1) Do i need a usb driver before i can establish a usb/ftp connection? where can i find these drivers for my linux-pc? (the pdf above was, as i could see, for windows)
Ya, 2.4.17 seems to be for ftpd for Windows in the middle of the Linux stuff. As I have never used ftp I though I'd read a few tutorials . . . first comment . . . is it not a ethernet based facility? How does USB fit into this?
maybe i got this all wrong, but if i want to do as you said above "USB for putting the bootloader, kernel and root filesystem on the board." how would i do that? do i need a driver to achive this? Thanks :)
and i dont want to use windows, only linux :P
search for <usbpush> and/or grab it off the downloads page.
usbpush is used with the serial port to talk to your mini2440. Used to upload a Linux image and root filesystem to the mini2440. If you want to transfer individual files then I guess you need to set up a ftp server on the mini2440 and a client on your host. See: http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch15_:_L...