GlobalScale MiraBox User Manual

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MiraBox User Guide –page1 / 29 MiraBox User Guide Table of Contents A. Package contents .................................................................................................................................................

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MiraBox User Guide –page2 / 29 A. Package contents 1. Standard package contents 1 2 4 3 ...

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MiraBox User Guide –page3 / 29 MiraBox standard contents List Remark 1 MiraBox 1 unit Mirabox main unit 2 AC-DC Power Adapter 1 pc Input 90-240VAC / output 5V,3A DC 3 Etherne...

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MiraBox User Guide –page4 / 29 2. Optional package contents MiraBox Optional contents List 8 Multi I/O Cable 1 pc Connect from MiraBox to JTAG/GPIO box 9 GPIO Cable 1 pc For GPIO p...

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MiraBox User Guide –page5 / 29 B. MiraBox appearance and connecting ports 1 2 3 6 4 5 ...

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MiraBox User Guide –page6 / 29 Mirabox ports description Connection port Description Remark 1 Power Port DC 5V/3A port 2 RJ45 #1 Gigabit Ethernet port1 3 RJ45 #...

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MiraBox User Guide –page7 / 29 C. LED indication LED indication table LED Color/ Pattern Description 1 Power on LED Solid green Upon power on, this LED lights up 2 WiFi A...

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MiraBox User Guide –page8 / 29 D. System console and debugging 1. Driver and tool installation (1) Prepare one Windows PC. (2) Download the serial communication tool “putty.exe”. (3) Download the driver, “2KXPVDock.exe�...

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MiraBox User Guide –page9 / 29 (4-3) Run “2KXPVDock.exe” and the driver will be installed to the PATH “C:\cabs\2KXPVDock”. (5) Find out the com port of your debugger on your windows PC. (5-1...

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MiraBox User Guide –page10 / 29 (5-2) Find out your com port as below (here is COM3 for example). (6) Run “putty.exe” and configure as below on your Windows PC. ...

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MiraBox User Guide –page11 / 29 2. Debugging console (1) Power on the MiraBox and you will see messages on screen as below. (2) You can press any key to stop auto-boot when you see the boo...

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MiraBox User Guide –page12 / 29 (4) Now you are the root user and have the full control of the MiraBox. 3. WiFi AP mode testing MiraBox Server has a built-in WiFi module which is in compliance with 802.11 b/g/n standard. The WiFi c...

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MiraBox User Guide –page13 / 29 3. Choose name with “mira-uAP-6344”, here digits ”6344” is the last four digits of MAC address for the MiraBox WiFi. Then cli...

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MiraBox User Guide –page14 / 29 4. WIFI Client mode testing (1) Switch to WiFi client mode by entering command as following. # wlan.sh When done successfully, the LED (D7) is blinking green and mlan0 is activated. (2) ...

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MiraBox User Guide –page15 / 29 (3) Scan for WiFi AP nearby. # iwlist mlan0 scan ...

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MiraBox User Guide –page16 / 29 (4) Connect to WiFi AP. # iwconfig mlan0 essid <AP’s ID> # dhclient mlan0 # ifconfig mlan0 #ping 192.168.1.1 The below screenshot is an example for how to connect a mlan device. If you can se...

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MiraBox User Guide –page17 / 29 5. Bluetooth testing There is a bluetooth chip built-in Mirabox but disabled as default. (1) Enable the Bluetooth function. # turnon_bt.sh # hcitool -i hci0 dev (2) Scan nearby Blue...

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MiraBox User Guide –page18 / 29 6. Gigabit Ethernet ports (1) Connect the two Gigabit Ethernet ports to a Gigabit switch by network cables. Normally it will get an IP address assigned by DHCP. Enter command as below to check: ...

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MiraBox User Guide –page19 / 29 7. USB 3.0 port (1) Plug in the usb3.0 hard disk or flash disk to the USB port, then you can see some driver messages as below of this device. (2) View the usb3.0 hard disk. ...

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MiraBox User Guide –page20 / 29 8. Multi-IO port Connect the MIRABOX JTAG/GPIO box to the Multi-IO port via Multi-IO cable. 9. Multi-IO port- JTAG interface Please connect ...

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MiraBox User Guide –page21 / 29 Debugger connection Run XDB on Windows PC MiraBox JTAG GPIO Marvell BlackStone debugger MiraBox ...

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MiraBox User Guide –page22 / 29 10. GPIO interface and control (1) LED demo program There is a demo program to show the GPIO LEDs by entering command as below: # ledtest1 This will light up all the LEDs. ...

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MiraBox User Guide –page23 / 29 a. Prepare a pc with linux Fedora 14 installed, and download the cross tool chain “arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi-vfp.tar.bz2” from our website http://www.plugcomputer.org/downloads/d2plug/ or http:/...

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MiraBox User Guide –page24 / 29 /*i2c_led.c*GTI--Globalscaletechnologies.,INC**/ #include <stdio.h> #include <linux/typ...

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MiraBox User Guide –page25 / 29 struct i2c_rdwr_ioctl_data e2prom_data; fd=open("/dev/i2c-0",O_RDWR);/* /dev/i2c-0 is registered to the system...

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MiraBox User Guide –page26 / 29 /*********** control the GPIO OP-2 **************************************/ //turn on LED (e2prom_data.msgs[0]).buf[0...

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MiraBox User Guide –page27 / 29 Give this program the name “i2c_led.c” and save to “/home” directory, then compile it. # cd /home # arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi-gcc -o led i2c_...

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MiraBox User Guide –page28 / 29 11. Reset (1) GPIO reset button The reset button is connected to one GPIO which means controlled by software. When you press down this button by using a sharp pin, it arouse...

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MiraBox User Guide –page29 / 29 12. Download sites To download the files for MiraBox server, please visit: http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/t-downloads.aspx Other useful resource links are: http://www.plugcomputer.org...