Installing BenF 3.64 from a linux box, no go

Gene77 · April 15, 2012, 2:30pm

Greetiongs; nice shiny new V1 from fleabay.

No windows machines available, only linux. Main box is an ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe, running the 32 bit version of PCLOS2012, all up to date with a 3.2.14 kernel, home brewed.

Holding right arrow down and turning it on gets this in dmesg:

usb 2-6: new full-speed USB device number 5 using ohci_hcd
ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.0: GetStatus roothub.portstatus [5] = 0x00100103 PRSC PPS PES CCS
usb 2-6: default language 0x0409
usb 2-6: udev 5, busnum 2, minor = 132
usb 2-6: New USB device found, idVendor=0483, idProduct=5720
usb 2-6: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
usb 2-6: Product: STM32 Mass Storage
usb 2-6: Manufacturer: STMicroelectronics
usb 2-6: SerialNumber: 000000000001
usb 2-6: usb_probe_device
usb 2-6: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb 2-6: adding 2-6:1.0 (config #1, interface 0)
usbserial_generic 2-6:1.0: usb_probe_interface
usbserial_generic 2-6:1.0: usb_probe_interface - got id
usb-storage 2-6:1.0: usb_probe_interface
usb-storage 2-6:1.0: usb_probe_interface - got id
scsi26 : usb-storage 2-6:1.0
drivers/usb/core/inode.c: creating file ‘005’
hub 2-0:1.0: state 7 ports 10 chg 0000 evt 0040
scsi 26:0:0:0: Direct-Access e-Design DSO Flash Disk 1.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
sd 26:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg7 type 0
sd 26:0:0:0: [sdg] Unsupported sector size 1.
sd 26:0:0:0: [sdg] 0 512-byte logical blocks: (0 B/0 B)
sd 26:0:0:0: [sdg] 1-byte physical blocks
ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.0: urb f36bc540 path 6 ep1in 92120000 cc 9 --> status -121
sd 26:0:0:0: [sdg] Write Protect is off
sd 26:0:0:0: [sdg] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.0: urb f085f9c0 path 6 ep1in 92120000 cc 9 --> status -121
sd 26:0:0:0: [sdg] No Caching mode page present
sd 26:0:0:0: [sdg] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 26:0:0:0: [sdg] Unsupported sector size 1.
ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.0: urb efbe8c00 path 6 ep1in 92120000 cc 9 --> status -121
ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.0: urb efbe8c00 path 6 ep1in 93120000 cc 9 --> status -121
sd 26:0:0:0: [sdg] No Caching mode page present
sd 26:0:0:0: [sdg] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 26:0:0:0: [sdg] Attached SCSI removable disk

Looking around I found the wiki that said I needed at least V0.5 of dfu-utils, but apparently only available as a .deb, so I grabbed that and use alien to install it on this rpm based distro, which was un-eventful once I had also installed the rpm-build package.

The man page says a -i or --list should show any dfu capable attached devices, but there is nothing found:

[root@coyote DSO]# dfu-util --list
dfu-util 0.5

© 2005-2008 by Weston Schmidt, Harald Welte and OpenMoko Inc.
© 2010-2011 Tormod Volden (DfuSe support)
This program is Free Software and has ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY

dfu-util does currently only support DFU version 1.0

[root@coyote DSO]#

Trying to install one of the 3.64 files I have unpacked, returns this:

[root@coyote DSO]# dfu-util --device 0483:5720 -U “DSO BenF APP v3.64.dfu”
dfu-util 0.5

© 2005-2008 by Weston Schmidt, Harald Welte and OpenMoko Inc.
© 2010-2011 Tormod Volden (DfuSe support)
This program is Free Software and has ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY

dfu-util does currently only support DFU version 1.0

Filter on vendor = 0x0483 product = 0x5720
No DFU capable USB device found

Obviously I am missing something. 99% of the USB stuff is built as modules but I do not see any likely culprits I should modprobe in.

So, I could sure use a clue or 3 here.

Thanks & Cheers, Gene

Gene77 · April 19, 2012, 1:23am

I did get it updated finally, 2 things:

The boot to dfu mode instructions were wrong, you have to hold the center of the 4 way button down, the instruction to hold the >|| button at powerup is as phony as a 3 dollar bill.
Despite playing the 10,000 monkeys writing Shakespear, I still had to take it to a winderz boxen and run the DfuSe software on the windows machine to do the update as dfu-utils kept claiming a version miss-match & bailing out.

So there you have it, now I have to figure out how to run it again as the user interface has been changed. S/B fun.

Cheers, Gene.

motopasscode · April 19, 2012, 3:03am

Are you pressing “Upgrade?”

I followed a guide on youtube and it said to press “Upload” which not only did not work, but messed up the unzipped files.

So I had unzip again and do Upgrade.

Just fyi.

Gene77 · April 19, 2012, 3:30am

Yeah, I saw that, but the help said that was for downloading FROM the nano, so I didn’t upload.

The button I am referring to is on the nano v1, as a square white button with 4 active edges, pressing hard in the center of it I assume closes all 4 contacts, and that, not the >|| button above it, is what you have to be holding down with 30-40 lbs of pressure when powering it up. The manuals instructions on that are bogus.

Thanks & cheers, Gene