[no distro] What console s/w are linux people using to communicate with the Neo FR boot loader?

[john dowd]

The communication works fine with neocon. Thanks.

My problem now is that I follow the wiki for setting up the SD to be a
backup system. I get into the boot loader and add the menu line:

setenv menu_2 Boot from microSD part2 (ext2+ext2): setenv bootargs
\${bootargs_base} rootfstype=ext2 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootdelay=5
\${mtdparts}\; mmcinit\; ext2load mmc 1 0x32000000 \${sd_image_name}\;
bootm 0x32000000

I also check it with the "printenv" command and then use the "saveenv"
to write it to NAND. What happens is that the command returns :


GTA02v6 # saveenv
Saving Environment to NAND...
Erasing Nand...GTA02v6 #

and when I restart to the boot loader menu, my menu entry is not there.

Cheers!!

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Al Johnson
<openmoko at mazikeen.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> I just use minicom, connect to /dev/ttyACM0 and enable line wrap. If you could
> be more specific about what's wrong then perhaps I could help.
>
> On Wednesday 14 January 2009, john dowd wrote:
>> Well, I tried Neocon, whenever I press a key I just get the message
>> [closed] printed out for every key and no joy talking to the device.
>>
>> Is there a console program out there that works right now and that
>> people are using to communicate with the Neo Freerunner?
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Gora Mohanty <gora at sarai.net> wrote:
>> > On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:38:30 -0800 (PST)
>> >
>> > Gothnet <openmoko at nastylittlehorse.net> wrote:
>> >> john dowd wrote:
>> >> > I've been using minicom but its a disaster. Unless some has settings
>> >> > that they would like to share.
>> >
>> > [...]
>> >
>> >> Search the wiki for a program called neocon, that seemed to work for me.
>> >
>> > [...]
>> >
>> > Haven't tried using serial terminal software with OpenMoko,
>> > but in general, have found cutecom to have a nice GUI
>> > interface.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Gora
>> >
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