Koa-PicoITX User Manual rev 1.0
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3.
Usage
3.1 Access to the Koala robot
You can communicate to the Koala robot and control it through the serial port.
Open a terminal console and type:
sudo minicom -s
Enter root as password then go the "Serial port setup" menu and configure as described in
figure 2.4.
Figure 2.4: Minicom serial parameters
Save the settings with the command “Save setup as dfl” of the menu [configuration]. The
commands available are listed in the appendix A of the Koala user manual.
Example:
the command B will read the bios and protocol versions. If you enter the
uppercase B, then press return this should return: b,1.19,1.19
See chapter 4 PROGRAMMING" for software development.
3.2 Network configuration
The system should connect autonomously at start-up to your wired network if a
Ethernet cable is connected and you have a dhcp server without identification.
If this is not the case, with the icon in the figure above you can setup your network
connection.
You can have more information about the operation system Ubuntu there:
http://help.ubuntu.com/
and about the network manager there:
https://help.ubuntu.com/9.10/internet/C/networkmanager.html
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| A - Serial Device : /dev/ttyUBS0
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| B - Lockfile Location : /var/lock
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| C - Callin Program :
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| D - Callout Program :
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| E - Bps/Par/Bits : 115200 8N1
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| F - Hardware Flow Control : No
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| G - Software Flow Control : No
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| Change which setting?
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