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Flashing a 30B from Linux or Mac? - Tom Grydeland - 02-22-2012 Has anyone done this? I tried Atmel's sam-ba for Linux, with a prolific PL2303 USB serial port. Having connected the calculator and prepared it for flashing, I started sam-ba. Sam-ba recognized the serial port, I selected the at91sam7l128-ek board from the drop-down list and pressed the "Connect" button. Sam-ba prints the following lines:
-I- Waiting ... (the last of these is printed after pressing "Connect".) Nothing else happens.
Has anyone else tried this? Made it work?
Re: Flashing a 30B from Linux or Mac? - Glenn Becker - 02-22-2012 For what it is worth I would also be quite interested in hearing whether anyone has had success with this ... Thanks,
Glenn
Re: Flashing a 30B from Linux or Mac? - David Griffith - 02-22-2012 I understand that the CDC thing has something to do with the fact it won't work.
Re: Flashing a 30B from Linux or Mac? - Jose Gonzalez Divasson - 02-22-2012 For what is worth, I am flashing all the wp34s with a Mac running Samba in XP in a Parallels session. At the same time, I connect to the store from Safari - seamlessly. I have been using Windows since I left my father's HP85 in 1983 - and once made the jump to Mac, I am not looking back...
No experience with Linux, though.
Re: Flashing a 30B from Linux or Mac? - Marcus von Cube, Germany - 02-22-2012 José, why SAM-BA and not MySamba? The latter is much faster, it takes about 20 seconds for the complete flash.
Re: Flashing a 30B from Linux or Mac? - Tom Grydeland - 02-23-2012 If that was a tip for me, I hope you can make it a bit more explicit.
Re: Flashing a 30B from Linux or Mac? - Tom Grydeland - 02-23-2012 I got hold of an Eee running W7. Using that, with MySamba and the same USB<->serial cable, the flashing worked on the first try.
Now how much work would it be to develop a tool like MySamba which works under Linux?
Re: Flashing a 30B from Linux or Mac? - pascal_meheut - 02-23-2012 Once again, this is planned and should be available in a few months.
Re: Flashing a 30B from Linux or Mac? - Egan Ford - 02-23-2012 "wine MySamBa.exe" works from Mac and Linux just fine. I never got the Atmel code to work. More info: http://www.hpmuseum.org/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/hpmuseum/archv020.cgi?read=202996
My reflash notes: To flash existing 34S: Re: Flashing a 30B from Linux or Mac? - Eric Smith - 02-23-2012 The Prolific USB-serial chips seem to be problematic. The FTDI ones seem to work much better.
Re: Flashing a 30B from Linux or Mac? - Massimo Gnerucci (Italy) - 02-23-2012
Quote:I see this statement repeated but I use a Prolific adapter and all works fine. I shall add that my serial/USB adapter is from 4/5 years ago. Greetings, Massimo Re: Flashing a 30B from Linux or Mac? - Jose Gonzalez Divasson - 02-23-2012 Marcus,
Sorry, I meant "mySamba". It is not only much, much faster but as well less prone to stop in mid-download (in case there is any other I/O going on, it is very likely that the download stops with the normal Sam-Ba)
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