Sunday, November 29, 2015

Greddy EMU software in WINE part 2

Part two of trying to get the Greddy EMU to work in Linux

I transferred over to my laptop as the desktop isn't close enough to the work bench's power supply to power up the Greddy EMU for testing.



Installed Oracle VM VirtualBox, and spun up an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 32Bit system, installed Wine and Greddy EMU software as listed in part 1.

I opened up the EMU to find the USB chip is a Silicon Labs CP2101 (or they list as CP210x).  Going to Silicon Lab's website was almost cause for double joy--- Updated drivers up to Windows 8 64bit AND Linux drivers.  I'm thinking I'm not closer to getting the EMU to work in both Windows and Linux-- oh it can never ever be that easy....

Installed the Windows driver repeatedly in Windows 10 64 bit, but could never get the EMU software to communicate despite trying from various angles.  I'm a linux noob so installing the Linux driver has me lost, I tried to follow the driver's release notes:

Ubuntu:
1. make ( your cp210x driver )
2. cp cp210x.ko to /lib/modules/<kernel-version>/kernel/drivers/usb/
serial
3. insmod /lib/modules/<kernel version>/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/
usbserial.ko
4. insmode cp210x.ko
Of note, already unpacked the driver's zip in a folder I made in the desktop via mkdir token/EMU

Find linux kernel via uname -r command, googled cp and insmod to gain some understanding on what I'm calling upon.

I think I got up to step 4 successfully, but am actually lost at 4, as I try that command in various possible applicable paths with no results.

So ultimate fail, still cannot get any driver/USB connectivity to work on the various OS's. 

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