Nishanth' tech rambles

Micro AB receptacles to replace Mini AB receptacles http://www.usb.org/developers/Deprecation_Announcement_052507.pdf announces this. So, to see a such a connector or cable, a bit of google: From here I got the following info: Micro-A plug (white) Micro-AB receptacle (gray) Micro-B plug (black) Micro-B receptacle (black) hehe that is useful for color blind folks too :) Standard-A receptacle to Micro-A plug (no other adaptors allowed). Quote: Micro-USB plug is rated for 10,000 connect-disconnect cycles. It is about half the height of the mini-USB connector in widespread use today but features a similar width. I hear it is stainless steel also :).. Ok, now my Mot A1200 gets plugged in and out of USB cable at my desk around 5 times a day, and once in house on average, that gives me like 4 year or so life time for my cable.. Err.. where are those days where u buy a TV and expect it to last 20 years ;).. just kiding ofcourse.. (my dad has a 15 year old TV and loves it).. Tons of pages lat...

Khasim finally started posting OMAP 3430 patches to git.. will take me a while to get to looking at the patches.. but.. it is good to see them come finally!! interestingly some devices using various OMAPs: http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=pdamaster i suppose lots of similar sites exist.. Yesterday Steve K showed me a cool setup -> he got himself a USB->VGA convertor (some 70 bucks), plugged the 2430 to a USBhub, plugged in a USB keyboard, and vroom.. he is all set.. lovely.. all those stuff.. throw them out.. just provide tons of USB ports ;)

Played arnd with my Dell inspiron 9300 laptop.. I had been lazy to update linux to new WPA-PSK key at home.. just finished it..along with a bunch of other stuff.. (I got a debian etch now): WPA apt-get install wpa_supplicant then installed /etc/network/interfaces----> # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback address 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 # eth0-wired The primary network interface iface eth0 inet dhcp #Wireless - eth1 auto eth1 iface eth1 inet dhcp wpa-driver wext wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf Minimal /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf to associate with open ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant ctrl_interface_group=0 eapol_version=1 ap_scan=1 fast_reauth=1 ### Home network network={ ssid="MyNetworkSSID" key_mgmt=WPA-PSK psk="MyNetworkPASSKEY" } Then ofcourse, i tried playing around with this: http://www.beryl-project.org/ installed and got it running.. but for some reasons.. it is to...

If you already know how to build a filesystem, good else for OMAP2430, here it is: http://www.geocities.com/crecmca98/Linux/omap2430_From_almost_scratch.pdf lmsensor for OMAP has been a slight pain so far.. lmsensor needs sysfsutils to build properly.. pick them up here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=44427 ./configure --target=arm-linux --build=i386-pc-linux-gnu --prefix=/home/fs/nmenon/arm/ --host=arm-linux CC=arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc mymake install lmsensor: Download it from here: http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki/Download compiling this is a pain: first I modified Makefile, changed I2C_HEADERS := $(LINUX_HEADERS) WARN := 1 DEBUG := 1 CC := $(CROSS_COMPILE)gcc the last one was not sensible... but personally, I hate seeing CC=gcc in Makefiles... might have been good to have ETCDIR := $(PREFIX)/etc Next compilation started mymake LINUX=/home/nmenon/opensource/copy/linux-omap.git/ MACHINE=ARM CFLAGS="-I/home/fs/nmenon/arm/include/" V=1 PREFIX=/home/fs/...