Cfa-633 !!!

[marseillais]

hello everyone,
i have a CFA-633 and i conect it to a usb port under Linux debian 2.6.5 and when i type dmesg in the shell-console :
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usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using address 3
usb 2-1: device not accepting address 3, error -71
usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using address 4
usbserial 2-1:1.0: FTDI 8U232AM Compatible converter detected
usb 2-1: FTDI 8U232AM Compatible converter now attached to ttyUSB1 (or usb/tts/1 for devfs)
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but when i type
cat hello >/dev/ttyUSB1
the bill-poster does not post anything and the console posts the following message:

.drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c: write request of 0 bytes
.drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c: write request of 0 bytes

someone can help me.

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[CF Mark]

A few things...

First you cannot write pain text to a CFA-633, it needs to be sent in the CFA-631/CFA-633/CFA-635 packet format.

Secondly, the device will appear as a serial device, so ttySxx (xx being the device number).

 

[marseillais]

can you give me a simple example code C to write hello world in the LCD.
thank's

 

[marseillais]

CFA-633

thank you very much my pal it walks well.
merci beaucoup

 

[brainproxy]

Re: CFA-633

thank you very much my pal it walks well.
merci beaucoup

Any chance in heck one of you could send me that?

 

[CF Support]

The code you're looking for is linked from here.

Directly you can find it here.