I mean do you want to work on making the mount talking to indi?
This will involve compiling your own serial drivers for the kernel and at least moderate poking around the linux system. Are you up for this?
And we may end empty-handed for our efforts...
Hello! I am not expert in Linux. I think if you write a detail procedure of writing serial driver for the kernel (for newbie in linux/raspberry pi) will be helpful for future experimenters. I am now operating it with Cartes du Ciel in windows and it is running nice! I don't want to do experiment with this anymore!
Good for you s21xt!
I figured it was not worth it for you. I was talking to jpatka - to make sure he is up for it.
The actual modification is quite simple but to apply it you need to perform few steps.
Do you have ubuntu or debian system you can use for this work?
If not which linux distro are you most comfortable with?
What about my other questions
system you can use? preferably debian/ubuntu?
how familiar are you with linux? (how many years?)
I just want to keep the conversation on most effective level.
I actually think it may be just a serial driver problem, and after fixing this it may just start working^TM
Hi,
I don't know if this was every done, but if it wasn't I'd be willing to take a crack at it. I have a Meade ETX-LS 8" ACF, not sure if it's the same telescope as the one that initially started this thread but lsusb shows the same ST-Ericsson 04cc:0000 device.
I have some experience in Linux, not a lot. I can google things, and follow directions. I have some experience and training in software but it was many moons ago and I'm long out of the field.
I've followed the initial directions in indilib.org/forum/ekos/1045-indi-support...s.html?start=24#8522
I assumed that dcd-acm.h was supposed to be cdc-acm.h
I copied the files and created the Makefile. After running make I get the following error:
make -C /lib/modules/4.19.97-v7l+/build SUBDIRS=/home/pi/meade-serial modules
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.19.97-v7l+'
CC [M] /home/pi/meade-serial/cdc-acm.o
/home/pi/meade-serial/cdc-acm.c: In function ‘wait_serial_change’:
/home/pi/meade-serial/cdc-acm.c:967:8: error: implicit declaration of function ‘signal_pending’; did you mean ‘timer_pending’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
if (signal_pending(current))
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
timer_pending
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
make[2]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:310: /home/pi/meade-serial/cdc-acm.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [Makefile:1522: _module_/home/pi/meade-serial] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-4.19.97-v7l+'
make: *** [Makefile:5: default] Error 2