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Topic: DSC-II or Damn Small Capio II, DSL on a Capio II thin client

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deedub

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Posted: July 26 2006,17:25

Quote (deedub @ July 26 2006,13:22)

Hi,

A friendly guy on ebay gave me the Capio Windows CE pwd
password = quality

If you hit F2 you can enter this pwd and get into the WinCE settings. Can't do much there though so changing to DSL still looks to be the better option. Unless you run Citrix Server over your network.

Bye,
Deedub

Just to confirm you hit F2 and enter this 'quality' password after the Capio has started WinCE. This isn't the BIOS password that was given earlier.

Deedub

deedub

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Posted: July 26 2006,17:46

Hi,

I've been digging into the Capio hardware and found an interesting chip FDC37C669 sitting on top of the daughter board. That's the plugin board with the printer & parallel port.

As you would expect this is an I/O device but the interesting part is that it also includes all of the interfaces for 2x floppy disk drives, an IDE bus driver and even infra-red.

The manufacturer of the FDC37C669 is SMsC.

After a quick scan through the datasheet it seems that all the I/O control/address lines are there so just a buffer/bus-transceiver is needed between this chip and the floppy or HDD plus of course power supply for the drive. The drive should then be visible to DSL after bootup.

I'm thinking adding a small 2.5" laptop HDD may make the Capio a lot more useable, but then noise/heat may become a problem. Also being able to temporarily add a floppy would make reprogramming the O/S a bit easier.

Anyone know how large a DOC this Capio can support (asuming the full system address bus is available on the board) as you can now buy much larger disk-on-chip parts, into the GB range. A 50MB or larger DOC could give room to get DSL running completely embedded, is this possible?

Deedub

deedub

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Posted: July 27 2006,11:04

Hi,

Start into WinCE on your Capio and try this;

In Terminal Connection manager select the configure tab
Add new connection and select Microsoft Remote Desktop Client
Edit properties for this connection and set the IP address of your server
Run Netmeeting on your server and use desktop sharing

or
In Terminal Connection manager select the configure tab
Add new connection and select Terminal Emulation Client
Edit properties for this connection and set the IP address of your server
Download and run the free telnet server KTS
http://www.kpym.com/
and run this on your server
In Terminal Connection manager on the Capio connect to your new telnet connection
you now have telnet access to your server from the Capio

Cya
Deedub

Michel

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Posted: July 28 2006,18:55

Re DOC size: The DOC only uses an 8K window to address it's flash memory. The builtin TFFS software on the DOC BIOS takes care of the rest. So most any size should be supported.

Note that standard DSL does not contain booting from DOC ( nftla device)

Someone should rebuild the boot loader with nftla and nftla1 defined and loaded to load DSL from the DOC using fromhd=nftla1 .

see http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2005-March/012286.html
for some more info.

Repeat warnings:

DON'T buy a DOC with a V3 extension: these are 3 volt versions and are fried in the Capio's 5V socket!!

DON'T put in the DOC the wrong way or it is fried...

DON'T put in the DOC with the mains plugged in or YOU are fried if you touch the wrong wire.

Michel