"Letting me know that you're still working on trying to FTP to a compact flash card really ties up my hands because I can't even begin to imagine where the problem might be. Is the network up and running? Did you install ftpd into your target filesystem? Are you receiving and "invalid password" error message? Or is the connection just being refused? Maybe the permissions haven't been set properly? etc..."
I think I've solved the compilation problem. The following needs to be added to the kernel requirements section on p31:
Right click on your kernel name in the Navigator window, select properties, select Nios 2 kernel in the window that pops up, make sure the SOPC builder system has "linux_1s10.ptf" selected. Failure to do this will cause the build to fail.
This solved the compile issue, now when I select vmlinux.bin and select upload the following appears:
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Microtronix Linux Extensions
Version 1.1, Built Wed Jul 7 12:46pm EST 2004
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Expected integer value for option 'location'
Value was: 'null'
Using default value: -1
The bin2flash utility converts any binary data file to a FLASH file that
can be used by the flash programmer.
usage: bin2flash [--help] [--debug] [--silent] [--flash=designator]
[--input=file] [--quiet] [--epcs] [--base=addr] [--log=file]
[--location=addr] [--output=file] [--verbose]
Options may be specified in any order.
--base=<addr> flash base address
--debug debug mode
--epcs epcs flash mode
--flash=<designator> flash device reference designator
--help print this message
--input=<file> input Binary file to process
--location=<addr> design location within the flash
--log=<file> file for logging progress
--output=<file> output flash file
--quiet only print errors
--silent silent mode - same as quiet
--verbose lots of interesting information
Isn't linux fun? One problem after another...
John K.