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Oct 27 11:00:23 <lennert> i hope to find some time this evening to test my serial thingy, been busy with debian bugs
Oct 27 11:00:34 <lennert> ka6sox-office: i'll also send you the svn co tarball today, hopefully
Oct 27 11:02:28 <root_____> exit
Oct 27 22:30:40 <ka6sox> morning
Oct 27 22:30:50 <ep1220> hello
Oct 27 22:31:31 <ep1220> yesterday i built a loopback connector and ran some tests
Oct 27 22:31:38 <ep1220> all was OK.
Oct 27 22:31:45 <ka6sox> excellent.
Oct 27 22:33:48 <ep1220> To ensure proper startup state (= all JTAG ouptuts disabled at power up)
Oct 27 22:34:04 <ep1220> one has to reconfigure the EEPROM in the module
Oct 27 22:35:03 <ep1220> FTDI has a program available to do this
Oct 27 22:35:08 <ka6sox> okay so we need to setup the eeprom ahead of time?
Oct 27 22:36:03 <ep1220> that would be ideal, but I think it is OK to do it at first startup
Oct 27 22:36:18 <ka6sox> okay.
Oct 27 22:36:28 <ep1220> Unfortuntately i only found a windows version of this program
Oct 27 23:07:28 <ka6sox> hmmm...maybe we need a linux version 
Oct 27 23:07:34 <ka6sox> it is documented
Oct 27 23:08:10 <ep1220> i saw there is source for a freeBSD version (at the FTDI site, utility section)
Oct 27 23:08:28 <ka6sox> is it binary only?
Oct 27 23:09:49 <ep1220>  It is at http://www.bwct.de/ftdi-eeprom-1.0.tar.gz
Oct 27 23:10:16 <ep1220> i ment sourcecode for a FreeBSD version
Oct 27 23:11:22 <ka6sox> good...then it should work in linux with little tweaks.
Oct 27 23:12:31 <ep1220> maybe you can take a look at it tomorrow
Oct 27 23:13:18 <ep1220> son woke up, time to make breakfast ...
Oct 27 23:19:09 <ka6sox> my son is only 4
Oct 27 23:19:30 <ka6sox> and goes in for a surgery tommorrow so I must sleep soon.
Oct 28 00:33:56 <lennert_> ka6sox: good luck with that!
Oct 28 01:12:33 <vmaster> ep1220: you can program the eeprom using either ftdi's ftd2xx, or using libftdi/ftdi-eeprom - both work (with some quirks)
Oct 28 01:24:49 <ep1220> vmaster: Thx. can you please explain what quirks canbe found
Oct 28 01:35:59 <vmaster> ftdi-eeprom is "unhandy" - it doesn't work the way one would expect it to work - and the device description would look "weird", i.e. extra chars in between
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