Hello,
I don't know where to start, but I am looking to use Velleman VM140 USB IO-board with Armbian Linux. I tried first on NanoPi R1 that I have succesfully installed Armbian Linux.
Linux I have installed is Armbian Buster for NanoPi R1.
root@nanopi-r1:/etc# uname -r
5.7.15-sunxi
I read somewhere there is kernel support for K8061 (the usb chip on the board if I understood correctly, looks to be a pic with USB).
dmesg after attaching USB cable to R1:
[960949.202099] usb 6-1: new full-speed USB device number 2 using ohci-platform
[960949.435136] usb 6-1: New USB device found, idVendor=10cf, idProduct=8061, bcdDevice= 0.00
[960949.435160] usb 6-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[960949.435175] usb 6-1: Product: K8061 USB Interface Board
[960949.435188] usb 6-1: Manufacturer: Velleman-kit
It looks like kernel recognises what is attached to it.
No device appears in the /dev filesystem on Armbian.
Another Linux machine running ubuntu 20.04LTS on Atom CPU dmesg after attaching the same VM140:
[1625465.062860] usb 1-1: new full-speed USB device number 10 using xhci_hcd
[1625465.217190] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=10cf, idProduct=8061, bcdDevice= 0.00
[1625465.217196] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[1625465.217199] usb 1-1: Product: K8061 USB Interface Board
[1625465.217202] usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Velleman-kit
[1625465.262491] comedi: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[1625465.262617] comedi: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel
[1625465.265181] comedi: version 0.7.76 - http://www.comedi.org
[1625465.266168] comedi_usb: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[1625465.275029] vmk80xx: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[1625465.276014] comedi comedi0: driver 'vmk80xx' has successfully auto-configured 'K8061 (VM140)'.
[1625465.276167] usbcore: registered new interface driver vmk80xx
And from /dev filesystem I can find from that system /dev/comedi0 device after attaching the board.
From this ubuntu 20.04LTS I can find the kernel module at /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/staging/comedi
In armbian such module does not exist.
/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/staging/ folder is present,but no comedi sub folder exists.
Can anyone help me to know what I need to do and also is this the correct forum to ask such questions?
Is it possible that I could find the comedi module to be isntalled or do I have to compile it from source (if I knwo how to, sooner or later I guess I could).
I am also planning to use VM140 on Armbian and NanoPi M4.
It seems to have different CPU, looks to be Rockchip RK3399.
Will that be very much different?
Petri