Symbol Engine » GP2x http://www.symbolengine.com C64, Amiga, GP2x and Wordpress goodness... Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:32:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Setting up a usb network with GP2X and what you can do with it http://www.symbolengine.com/index.php/2007/05/06/setting-up-a-usb-network-with-gp2x-and-what-you-can-do-with-it/ http://www.symbolengine.com/index.php/2007/05/06/setting-up-a-usb-network-with-gp2x-and-what-you-can-do-with-it/#comments Sun, 06 May 2007 19:33:06 +0000 Jim Qode http://www.symbolengine.com/index.php/2007/05/06/setting-up-a-usb-network-with-gp2x-and-what-you-can-do-with-it/ GP2x is a wonderful device for its portability, power consumption and price tag.  You can do pretty amazing stuff with an out of the box unit. Here is a slice of that:

  1. Go to settings/system menu on your GP2x
  2. Make sure the IP Address is 10.1.0.1
  3. Turn on telnet, ftp, samba and web servers (You wont need samba if you are using a real operating system)

If you are running Linux:

  1. ifconfig usb0 up 10.1.0.2
  2. now you should be able to ping the device with:
    ping 10.1.0.1

If you are running m$ windows (Who said windows is easier to manage?):

  1. You will probably need USB Gadget driver for windows. Most flavors come without it. Download and install:
    Download USB Gadget Driver for Windows @ M$
  2. Turn on your GP2x. A baloon will pop up (don't you hate them?) to say connection is established. 
  3. Go to Control Panel -> Network Connections.
  4. Open TCP/IP properties of "Linux USB Ethernet / RNDIS
  5. Manually configure it with an IP of "10.1.0.2" and a subnet mask of "255.0.0.0"
  6. You should be now able ping your device from command shell with:
    ping 10.1.0.1

Now you can also telnet to your GP2x, transfer files with samba (means: windows file sharing) or ftp.

There is also a pretty complete web server with even PHP installed running there. PHP I tell ya! Have fun!

]]> http://www.symbolengine.com/index.php/2007/05/06/setting-up-a-usb-network-with-gp2x-and-what-you-can-do-with-it/feed/ 0 Online documentation for Rlyeh’s minimal library 0.B preview http://www.symbolengine.com/index.php/2007/03/20/rlyeh_docs/ http://www.symbolengine.com/index.php/2007/03/20/rlyeh_docs/#comments Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:04:47 +0000 Jim Qode http://www.symbolengine.com/index.php/2007/03/20/rlyeh_docs/ I recently won a GP2x handheld linux console at NightShift'07 demo party and started developing right on. The most close-to-hardware library I found so far is rlyeh's minimal library. It has support for the coprocessor, internal joystick and direct framebuffer access. The latest version on the web is 0.B preview (weird versioning scheme huh?). There is an online documentation on the web but it is for the 0.A version. I'm tired of having to search for the files when I want to have a quick peek at the documentation. So here it is:

Rlyeh's minimal library 0.B preview documentation @ SymbolEngine

Here is the original web site of Rlyeh's minimal library:

Rlyeh's minimal library home @ Retrodev Forum

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