stepman Posted June 13, 2015 Posted June 13, 2015 I am running my Cubietruck with Debian and want to connect my JeeLink USB Adapter for home automation with OpenHAB. It is recognized by the system (lsusb): Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0403:6001 Future Technology Devices International, Ltd FT232 USB-Serial (UART) IC The driver module seems missing, as no /dev/ttyUSB0 is created. dmesg | grep usb states: [ 1.525290] usb 3-1: new full-speed USB device number 2 using sw-ohci Is the driver included in the image? If not, how can I install it? Thanks for your help! Stepman
Igor Posted June 16, 2015 Posted June 16, 2015 Try the kernel from http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/74-bpi-r1-umts-e220-usb-problems/?p=341 CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_FTDI_SIO=m I enabled this while building and some other general serial com stuff.
stepman Posted June 19, 2015 Author Posted June 19, 2015 I was on a trip this week so I could only test it today. I installed all .deb packages you packed in 4.0.5-lamobo-r1-next.tar but afer rebooting the kernel is still 3.4.104 uname -a: Linux cubietruck 3.4.104-sunxi #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Oct 17 16:13:30 CEST 2014 armv7l GNU/Linux How do I activate the new kernel? Sorry, I am not very experienced with linux kernel...
Igor Posted June 19, 2015 Posted June 19, 2015 FAQ - If I upgrade from older image / kernel. Are you upgrading from my installation or someone else?
stepman Posted June 19, 2015 Author Posted June 19, 2015 I upgraded from your distro. I tried to upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie, but now my installation is broken. I will reinstall... Tried Jessie with Kernel 4, but booting stopped with Welcome to Debian GNU/LINUX 8 (jessie)! [TIME] Timed out waiting for device dev-ttyS0.device. [DEPEND] Dependency failed for Serial Getty on ttyS0. So I will install your Wheezy with Kernel 4.0.5 and then try again... Thanks for your help
Igor Posted June 20, 2015 Posted June 20, 2015 Jessie with 4.0.4 / v3.8, v3.9 is reported to have problems but works for me. Odd. I just installed Jessie with 4.0.5 on Orange Pi and started with long term stress test. It's re-booting fine, hard drive is working, CPU freq scaling, battery charge / discharge, ... running some stress test periodically and running some services. Current uptime is only few days so it's a bit too soon to make conclusions but it looks it's stable. BTW. Distribution upgrades should work but they are not bullet proof.
remsnet Posted June 20, 2015 Posted June 20, 2015 Jessie is proven only rock solid with kernel 3.16.x and up.
Igor Posted June 20, 2015 Posted June 20, 2015 Jessie is proven only rock solid with kernel 3.16.x and up. Yes and no. I do many compilation and sometimes it does not build up, than in few days - when things are fixed - everything is fine. Is this a problem of debootstrap, packets, ... I don't explore. Jessie is the problem winner, than Trusty and Wheezy which is somehow logical. I am among those few % who notice such things. Yes, Jessie become stable. With minor, probably irrelevant, glitches. But if you can't boot the system due to bug which is most likely from os ?
stepman Posted June 21, 2015 Author Posted June 21, 2015 Finally I got it working again. Cubietruck_Debian_3.8_wheezy_4.0.4 and Cubietruck_Debian_3.9_wheezy_4.0.5 both did not work, during first boot it said: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 Unable to set up timer: unexpected error Failed to bring up eth0. After this the cubie did not reboot. Cubietruck_Debian_3.8_wheezy_3.4.107 finally worked. And my usb-to-serial is also working again! Thanks for your help!
Igor Posted June 21, 2015 Posted June 21, 2015 Cubietruck_Debian_3.8_wheezy_4.0.4 and Cubietruck_Debian_3.9_wheezy_4.0.5 both did not work, during first boot Can you describe the exact scenario. Have you power off your board in between?
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