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[Forty-Two]

Are there any 3rd party linkers out there that support <{GNULINUX}>? I would like to transfer programs to my calc (an fx-9860GII) from time to time, but I'm not sure if there are any linkers that would work on <{GNULINUX}>. Currently, I can transfer programs using my windows computer, but it's inconvenient, as then I have to transfer the files from my windows box to my laptop (Which has <{GNULINUX}>, and is the one that I use for day-to-day things).

EDIT:

After shopping around a bit, I found Fx-interface. Unfortunately, I can't read French, and I'm not very sure what it does. Considering that "software-transfert" is in the url, I'm pretty sure it's a linker. It also seems to be a windows program, so I would need a linux version for it to be useful.

Edited by Forty-Two, 28 December 2011 - 02:18 PM.

[PierrotLL]

On a <{GNULINUX}> system, you can use xfer9860, a fast command-line utility.

[Forty-Two]

On a <{GNULINUX}> system, you can use xfer9860, a fast command-line utility.

Thanks for the link. I downloaded and built xfer successfully. I'm currently having troubles connecting to my calc. At first I tried:

[sean@Hactar xfer9860]$ xfer -i
--- xfer9860 v0.2.1  Copyright (C) 2007 Andreas Bertheussen and Manuel Naranjo.
[>] Setting up USB connection.. 
[E] A listening device could not be found.
	Make sure it is receiving; press [ON], [MENU], [sin], [F2]

But then I saw a tutorial for screenstreamer in which the user had to become root to transfer files. Doing that, I was able to connect, but something went wrong with the verification:

[root@Hactar src]# xfer -i
--- xfer9860 v0.2.1  Copyright (C) 2007 Andreas Bertheussen and Manuel Naranjo.
[>] Setting up USB connection.. Connected!
[>] Verifying device.. Failed.

I'm not sure what it's trying to do there, do you know what may be going wrong? EDIT: I found a user using ubuntu who had the same problems.

Edited by Forty-Two, 30 December 2011 - 01:18 AM.

[Forty-Two]

*Bump*

I cross-posted this on cemetech.

[flyingfisch]

You may want to try XI_interface if this isnt working.
http://xizard.free.f..._interface.html

And if you can figure out how to install it successfully, tell me how you did it cuz i get errors. :/


EDIT:
I just installed xfer9860 and am having the same problem:

sudo src/xfer9860 -i
[sudo] password for flyingfisch: 
--- xfer9860 v0.2.1  Copyright (C) 2007 Andreas Bertheussen and Manuel Naranjo.
[>] Setting up USB connection.. 
ERR: usb_set_configuration(): -110

[E] A listening device could not be found.
	Make sure it is receiving; press [ON], [MENU], [sin], [F2]

[Forty-Two]

You may want to try XI_interface if this isnt working.
http://xizard.free.f..._interface.html

And if you can figure out how to install it successfully, tell me how you did it cuz i get errors. :/


EDIT:
I just installed xfer9860 and am having the same problem:

sudo src/xfer9860 -i
[sudo] password for flyingfisch: 
--- xfer9860 v0.2.1  Copyright (C) 2007 Andreas Bertheussen and Manuel Naranjo.
[>] Setting up USB connection.. 
ERR: usb_set_configuration(): -110

[E] A listening device could not be found.
	Make sure it is receiving; press [ON], [MENU], [sin], [F2]

What link cable are you using? I'm using the USB cable, but the software you linked to says it uses the serial cable.

EDIT: I retried this, and it seems that I am getting the same error.

[root@Hactar src]# ./xfer9860 -i
--- xfer9860 v0.2.1  Copyright (C) 2007 Andreas Bertheussen and Manuel Naranjo.
[>] Setting up USB connection.. 
ERR: usb_set_configuration(): -110

[E] A listening device could not be found.
	Make sure it is receiving; press [ON], [MENU], [sin], [F2]

When I tried increasing the packet delay with i, I got the same as before:

[root@Hactar src]# ./xfer9860 -it 1
--- xfer9860 v0.2.1  Copyright (C) 2007 Andreas Bertheussen and Manuel Naranjo.
[>] Setting up USB connection.. Connected!
[>] Verifying device.. Failed.

After digging through the code a bit, I have found what seems to be the source:

printf("Connected!\n");
		printf("[>] Verifying device.. ");
		if (fx_doConnVer(usb_handle) != 0) { printf("Failed.\n"); goto exit_release; }
		else { printf("Done!\n"); }

However, I wasn't able to look over it carefully. It was from the file "getinfo.c"

Edited by Forty-Two, 07 January 2012 - 03:43 AM.

[flyingfisch]

So whats wrong with the code?

[flyingfisch]

have you figured out how to get the linker to work yet?

[afxi]

I was able to successfully transfer files from my computer to the calculator and vice versa, so basically the program works.
My calculator is a fx9860G and xfer9860 was developed before your calculator-version was released, so there could be a difference in some part of the communication protocol of your calculator which leads to the error while verifying. Maybe, if you skip the verifying in the source code, the rest would work. If not, you could ask someone like Simon Lothar, if he has an link-protocol documentation of your calculator-version to adjust the code.
Greetings,
afxi

[flyingfisch]

Thank you afxi, I was just thinking the same thing that the fx9860G and GII versions may transmit differently. Unfortunately, I dont know enough computer programming to do it myself. :/

[Forty-Two]

Thank you afxi, I was just thinking the same thing that the fx9860G and GII versions may transmit differently. Unfortunately, I dont know enough computer programming to do it myself. :/

I found out what was wrong with it. I'm in the process of learning C to convert the usb code from libusb-0.1 to 1.0. This may fix the problem, but even if it doesn't, it'll have a reliability increase. I do know enough about the protocol, to know that in response to the verify request, the calc is explicitly sending nothing, which tells me that the protocol has changed, at least for the verify. I may have to investigate the protocol after I update it to libusb-1.0.

Edited by Forty-Two, 12 February 2012 - 01:33 PM.

[flyingfisch]

OK, cool!

[flyingfisch]

@Forty-Two: Did you ever get this to work?

[Forty-Two]

No, I haven't looked at the code in forever. I don't even have it anymore.

(I used way too many commas...)

[MicroPro]

Did you contact the original author?

[flyingfisch]

Updates from my casio kingdom post:

I am working on a kde4 casio tranfer tool for linux based on the knowledge of xfer9860, and some documents I found on casio-scene.

I am an owner of the first 9860 so, I don't know if it works or not, with 9860gii.
When I will find time, i will post the first version of the program.
Meanwhile, If you have any question in xfer9860 code please feel free to ask.

To adapt xfer9860 for fx9860gII, I know you have to change the constant T_POSITIVE (Casio9860.h line 70). 0x06 is the value for first fx9860, on the new ones it's 0x05.
To accept the two values, you may change function fx_doConnVer (Casio9860.c line 131).

[flyingfisch]

On line 70 in Casio9860.h, change 0x06 to 0x05.

Source

[Castania]

I applaud the efforts of those working with xfer9860 -- if you get a stable product, I'd certainly like to try it out. Like many, I do not know how to program, so my only value is to see how idiot proof the code is :-)

I can attest that FA-123 runs under Wine and worked well with the fx-9750GA Plus; used it for over two years. But then I went to the fx-9860GII and the fx-9750GII. They did not work under Wine (new OS?) or FA-123. But, I have had good luck running FA-124 in an XP Virtual Box. With a shared drive/folder and shared clipboard, you can pretty much exchange what ever information you want. I know it's a work around -- maybe even a bit cumbersome at times -- but it does work until Casio or someone develops a Linux product.

Edited by Castania, 10 July 2013 - 12:20 PM.

[Anonymouse]

Forty-two, could you modify the topic a little please? I thought you were talking about an executable linker...

I also have a modified version of xfer9860 that works with my GII so if anyone's interested...

[flyingfisch]

...
I also have a modified version of xfer9860 that works with my GII so if anyone's interested...

I am! could you give a download link or maybe a patch of some sort?

[Forty-Two]

Forty-two, could you modify the topic a little please? I thought you were talking about an executable linker...

Done