Input correction base station through serial communication

Reach Module / M+ / M2 Hardware integration
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Hi!

If there is no USB option on the page, then your radio is not recognized by Reach. This can be caused by two reasons:

  • Maybe the radio does not get enough power. Is there a power LED on your model?
  • Sometimes Reach’s FTDI driver gets corrupted due to an issue with an external package repository. We are working on a proper solution for this, which will be included in the next image release.

In the meantime, we provide a temporary workaround:

  • SSH into reach
  • Change the used repo to ours by changing the file /etc/opkg/base-feeds.conf to our repo:
src/gz edison https://files.emlid.com/reach/repo/edison
src/gz core2-32 https://files.emlid.com/reach/repo/core2-32
src/gz all https://files.emlid.com/reach/repo/all
  • Run sudo opkg update
  • Run sudo opkg install kernel-module-ftdi-sio

The correct output for this command should be:

Upgrading kernel-module-ftdi-sio from 1.0-r2 to 3.10.17-r0 on root.
Downloading https://files.emlid.com/reach/repo/edison/kernel-module-ftdi-sio_3.10.17-r0_edison.ipk.
Removing obsolete file /lib/modules/3.10.98-poky-edison+/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.ko.
Configuring kernel-module-ftdi-sio.