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Monday November 06, 2006 I bought myself a USB card from maplin.co.uk - a Velleman k8055 card, 2 analog inputs, 2 analog outputs, 5 digital inputs, 8 digital outputs. I bought it to experiment with libusb.
It took about an hour to solder together and as soon as I plugged it in to my Solaris laptop ( nv_b51) it was autodetected and HID attached to it - odd to have it export the HID class but easy to fix.
I took the usb vid and pid from /var/adm/messages and used update_drv -a to force a binding to the ugen driver. Unplugged and replugged the card and the ugen driver bound to the card.
Then via google I found a k8055 linux libusb application, using the studio 11 compilers ( free from www.sun.com) that built without error. The k8055 work perfectly, I can read the sensors and write values to the ports - taken all the fun out of it...
I think I'll turn it into a kernel driver to give me some practise..
Wednesday November 01, 2006 So I have upgraded my laptop ( toshiba satellite A40) from nv build 27 right up to date at b51.
There was a small hick-up with my chipset and some new hardware graphics accelerators but a bit of /etc/driver_aliases fiddling cured that. It seems much faster but that could just be later versions of software.
I like the new firefox and the new music player.
I just installed gnokii - it took a bit of hacking but most of it is working now, just need a bit more work on the ringtone editor.
So the next job is to get the sunray server up to b51 for s10 pre fcs! without losing my wifes home directory..