Hi all,
Yesterday my Carambola 2 + dev board arrived in the mail. I found the wiki on the official 8Devices website lacky, mostly centered on the first revision; the slightly bigger Carambola (1).
I'll post a brief 'getting started' for now and will try to keep this thread updated with relevant tips, tricks and guides.
So, this is the device:
Ltr: Mini-usb with FTDI chip, USB-host port, 2x buttons, Carambola2 chip, 2x nif, 2x rj45 port.
According to various sources connecting should be as easy as telnet to 192.168.1.1 to one of the lan ports, but sadly, no go.
Thanks to the usb fdti connecting to serial terminal is very easy, in linux use this command to connect:
picocom -f n -p n -b 115200 -i -r -l /dev/ttyUSB0
This stumped me at first, I just got 'console ready' and that was it, after pressing enter I got into the boards command shell.
Entering help gave me a list of options, one of them gave me a list of images on flash. I found OpenWRT barrier breaker was on there somewhere.
Not knowing what to do I tried some other useless commands, when I asked for the memory map it responded "why the fuck would you want the memory map?" -- nice.
As it turned out I just had to type 'boot' (without quotes) and off it went! After a couple of seconds I was prompted with the OpenWRT logo and logged in as root.
Next I set the root password with 'passwd' and found that LuCi was allready installed..
More to come.
(Last edited by Guzz on 2 Jul 2013, 09:56)