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IGEP Technology Devices Guides - Part 1/3 - Summary

1) Connect a DVI Monitor

2) Connect a Serial cable

3) Connect Audio In/Out minijack

4) Connect USB devices (keyboard and mouse)

5) Connect network cable

6) Power up IGEPv2 (5V DC)

This first chapter describes how to boot IGEPv2 and also gives some basic instructions about how to connect some peripherals.

Setting up

First of all, you can begin to add some peripherals.

In this tutorial we are going to use:

• the serial cable
• a monitor
• a USB keyboard and a mouse
• a network cable.

Do NOT power up your board yet.

The Digital Visual Interface (DVI) is a video standard interface designed to provide very high visual quality on digital display devices such as flat panel LCD computer displays and digital projectors. It is partially compatible with the High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) standard in digital mode (DVI-D), and VGA in analog mode (DVI-A).

Note that your monitor should be able to support 1024 x 768 @ 60 Hz, which is the default resolution in the preinstalled software.

In the preinstalled software, the serial port is configured as a Debug interface.

You can use the debug interface to interact with the IGEP Processor operating system [host] by typing commands in a client machine (your PC, for example) to perform specific tasks. You can communicate and open a debug session via many interfaces such Serial port, Ethernet, Wifi, USB Ethernet Gadget, etc.

Furthermore, if you connect an external device to the serial port you will be able to see the Linux Kernel traces, as the system boots.

Therefore, you will be able to access IGEPv2 with a serial console from your client device (for example, a PC with Linux, Windows, etc.)

Serial: AT/Everex Cable connected to the 10-pin serial header on IGEPv2. Network: Ethernet cable

To communicate with IGEPv2 via Serial port you have to connect your client machine to the serial debug port in your IGEPv2 (host).

Once you have set the cable, then you have to run a serial console, or any program that can interact with the serial port in your host machine, such Minicom, PuTTy (Linux, Windows), Terminal (Windows), etc.

• If you don't know how to set up your serial cable, refer to the following article: How to setup the IDC10 cable. Also, if you do not have Serial port in your host machine you might need a USB to Serial converter to communicate via this port.

• If you are not familiar with a serial console, refer to this page, an extended article about Using serial debug port to communicate.

External Audio input devices, such as a powered microphone or the audio output of a PC or MP3 player, can be connected to the via a 3.5mm jack (Audio IN).

Only USB 2.0 devices will work in IGEPv2, so if you connect any USB mouse 1.0 into the USB host connector without using a USB hub 2.0, it will not work.

IGEPv2 comes with one 10/100BASE-TX Ethernet ports.

In the following chapters we will use ethernet to access IGEPv2 with IP configuration, send files, etc.

• Serial: If you have connected the serial debug port, you will see the system traces as the board is starting up. Finally you will see the boot prompt asking for login. (read the next chapter of this tutorial)

• LED's: You will also see a few LED's flash in IGEPv2 during the system boot(the sequence will be different based on software version).

• Monitor: Finally, if you connected the DVI-D signal (with HDMI connector) to a monitor, the desktop of the preinstalled software will appear on the screen and you will be able to use the mouse and the keyboard, if connected.

• USB devices: You will be able to use your keyboard and mouse and 'play' with some features of this little distribution.

Poky prompt Poky desktop

Continue with this tutorial at: [[What can I do with IGEPv2]]