Tronbike Meter (TBM) 4.0.0 Test Ride

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Back in...Reflashing the ARM Board

Well, I couldn't hack my way in, I left no easy holes. So I faced the dreaded decision to reflash the ARM board as per the ancient instructions, with examples in Chinese.

Using the wife's Vista host, I managed to connect the serial dongle for console and another USB cable for transmission, using a program called DNW (popular in the Q2440 ARM board circles, thank you FriendlyARM.net), I was able to follow the Chinese enough to reflash the OS parts one by one. Not very tough, I feel powerful now and free to make mistakes.

The TBM software distro SHOULD be fully compatible with the OS, and even provide the nasty kernel modules I put together myself to support bluetooth and the WIFI hub.

Lots of backdoors will be enabled before we re-install in Tronbike...

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