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chrisale · Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 187

I think... Smile

I feel like I'm so close... everything is compiled and seems happy. *Except* it doesn't seem to be actually communicating with the Vantage Pro through the USB connection.

It *seems* to be trying to communicate through /dev/ttyS0 ... it was giving a READ ERROR before, but now, nothing is comeing up in syslog or messages.

Is there anyway I can confirm in Debian that I can communicate with the Vantage without the wview daemon?

I'm not a Linux expert, so I'm trying hard, bt I think I must be missing something.

This is what dmesg is saying about the USB port:

hub.c: new USB device 00:04.2-1, assigned address 3
usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x10c4/0xea60) is not claimed by any active driver.
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team

now if it's not claimed by a driver, does it get a /dev address anyway for wview to point at?

If it *is* supposed to be connected to ttyS0 then I've set the speed so that setserial reports:

/dev/ttyS0, Line 0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4
Baud_base: 19200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
closing_wait: 3000
Flags: spd_normal skip_test

Should I set ttys0 port to 0x10c4 and IRQ to 12?

Thank you for any help you can provide!

This is what messages is saying:

mteel · Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Posts: 435 Location: Collinsville, TX

If that is all you are seeing in the message log, you are definitely NOT communicating with the VP console - did you install the CP2101 USB serial driver (I am assuming you have the Davis USB data logger) found on the wview site (if you are running a 2.4 kernel, else it must be a 2.6.12.1 kernel or higher with the CP2101 driver already built in).

From the User Manual:

chrisale · Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 187

omg
*slap*

thank you

chrisale · Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 187

works now!

thanks man!

chrisale · Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 187

Just for posterity... I'll confirm it attached to /dev/ttyUSB0

Rig · Joined: 30 Aug 2006 Posts: 12

Hi! I need help! I don't know how to install USB driver for Debian. (CP2101).
I don't understand the "Linux-Readme.txt":

Building Package
----------------
1) Edit Makefile file paths for target Linux kernel.
2) Type "make" at the command prompt, in the directory
containing the driver files.

Makefile:
# MST: Edit THESE for your distribution:
TARGETKERNEL=linux-2.4.20-20.8 [I should change this line??]
KERNELINCLUDEPATH=/usr/src/$(TARGETKERNEL)/include
SYSTEMINCLUDEPATH=/usr/src/$(TARGETKERNEL)/include
COMPILERINCLUDEPATH=/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2/include

My kernell is : debian : 2.4.27-2-386 and I have nothing under /usr/src/

I changed "COMPILERINCLUDEPATH=/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.5/include"

WVIEW seems correct!

Thanks for help!

bhnb · Joined: 28 Nov 2005 Posts: 127

apt-get install kernel-headers-2.4.27-2-386

Rig · Joined: 30 Aug 2006 Posts: 12

Thanks a lot!

Rig · Joined: 30 Aug 2006 Posts: 12

USB is fantastic when it's work!

Well... the CP2101 doen't work for me and I have no clue...

Makefile:
TARGETKERNEL=kernel-headers-2.4.27-2-386
KERNELINCLUDEPATH=/usr/src/$(TARGETKERNEL)/include
SYSTEMINCLUDEPATH=/usr/src/$(TARGETKERNEL)/include
COMPILERINCLUDEPATH=/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.5/include

make: no error message!

syslog:
Sep 1 12:14:17 localhost kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:04.2-2, assigned address 3
Sep 1 12:14:17 localhost kernel: usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x10c4/0xea60) is not claimed by any active driver.
Sep 1 12:14:17 localhost hal.hotplug[1668]: could not get mountpoint for sysfs

# vpconfig /dev/ttyUSB0 show
stationInit failed

Thanks for help!

Rig · Joined: 30 Aug 2006 Posts: 12

I tried another kernel: kernel-image-2.6-686-smp

syslog:
Sep 1 22:34:19 localhost wviewd[17070]: <1818256651> : -- Station Init Start --
Sep 1 22:34:20 localhost wviewsqld[17074]: <1818257674> : radlib: wviewsqld started as a daemon ...
Sep 1 22:34:20 localhost wviewsqld[17074]: <1818257676> : SQLDB: basic US archiving enabled -
Sep 1 22:34:20 localhost wviewsqld[17074]: <1818257676> : SQLDB: to localhost table wviewDB.archive
Sep 1 22:34:20 localhost htmlgend[17077]: <1818257676> : radlib: htmlgend started as a daemon ...
Sep 1 22:34:20 localhost htmlgend[17077]: <1818257678> : generating to /var/wview/img
Sep 1 22:34:20 localhost wviewsshd[17084]: <1818257710> : /etc/wview/wviewssh.conf does not exist - exiting...
Sep 1 22:34:20 localhost wviewftpd[17082]: <1818257713> : radlib: wviewftpd started as a daemon ...
Sep 1 22:34:20 localhost wviewftpd[17082]: <1818257715> : FTP: INIT: 5 rules added
Sep 1 22:34:20 localhost wviewftpd[17082]: <1818257715> : starting ftp timer for 1 mins 55 secs
Sep 1 22:34:20 localhost htmlgend[17077]: <1818258243> : running...
Sep 1 22:34:26 localhost wviewd[17070]: <1818264209> : Vantage Pro on /dev/ttyS0 opened ...
seems good... until that :
Sep 1 22:34:30 localhost wviewd[17070]: <1818267470> : vproStartProcState: WAKEUP failed - retry

And still have:
# vpconfig /dev/ttyUSB0 show
stationInit failed

And I'm going to have a ftp problem: ftp: A: unknown option
I tried "tnftp-20050625.tar.gz" with strange error messages.

Rig · Joined: 30 Aug 2006 Posts: 12

Back to 2.4:

The USB port seems good now! I didn't load the driver: "load_mcci_usb" ... arg!

syslog:
Sep 2 21:49:07 localhost kernel: usbserial.c: MCCI USB Adapter converter detected
Sep 2 21:49:07 localhost kernel: usbserial.c: MCCI USB Adapter converter now attached to ttyUSB0 (or usb/tts/0 for devfs)

> vpconfig /dev/ttyUSB0 show

Firmware Version: Apr 10 2006
Station Location: 35.6 N, 60 W, 0 feet
Archive Interval: 1 minutes
Rain Season Start Month: 1
RX Check Stats: 28452 2204 0 77 1141 recvd:missed:resyncs:good-pkts-in-a-row:CRC errors

I'm still having some problems.. but, I'm closer...

Rig

Rig · Joined: 30 Aug 2006 Posts: 12

I reran the wviewconfig before to start wview and now I got datas in Mysql and "/var/wview/archive"!

Now I'm working on these problems:

bhnb · Joined: 28 Nov 2005 Posts: 127

Hi Rig

Good to see you're making some progress! For your gdImagePng problem, the gd manual suggests checking that there are no old versions of libpng in your library directories.

Cheers

Jon

Rig · Joined: 30 Aug 2006 Posts: 12

Thanks a lot Jon,

I originally installed libz and libpng from "OS distribution" (Debian with apt-get) as suggested from "wview User Manual". Finally, I reinstalled both packages as you proposed (appropriate versions of libpng):

libz: http://www.zlib.net/
libpng: http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/ (requires zlib)

Packages suggested by Boutell "http://www.boutell.com/gd/manual2.0.33.html"

So far... so good for my gdImagePng problem!

Now I'm working on:

Rig · Joined: 30 Aug 2006 Posts: 12

Wview is working!! Woohoo! Thank you Jon for your help!