Hello,
which hardware do you guys recommend for flashing a Lenovo Thinpad T530?
As far as I know you need three things: 1. SPI programmer with USB connection and USB cable 2. SOIC8 clip 3. cables to connect the SPI programmer and the SOIC8 clip
I'm sure with number 2, so I already bought a Pomona 5250 clip.
For the SPI programmer I decided to use a CH341A, but when I search for it there are different CH341A. Which one should I buy?
Which cables do you recommend? I read that I should use short ones, but which cables exactly dou you recommend? A link to a german shop would be very, very helpful!
Thanks for helping Greetings
Hi Yannik,
On 25.11.18 20:05, Yannik Catalinac wrote:
For the SPI programmer I decided to use a CH341A, but when I search for it there are different CH341A. Which one should I buy?
It shouldn't matter as long as it says to be compatible to SPI 25 series. There were reports about bad batches of every kind (e.g. wrong voltage regulator), FWIW. So there's always a risk. I would pick one with a location in Europe (i.e. not China) so you don't wait weeks and then realize you got a bad one. I have one with a black board btw. that works fine.
As you asked for a German shop below, here[1] is a more expensive alternative to the CH341A. 5x the cost, up to 15x the speed (and can also work as a USB debugging device with coreboot; needs another TTL level UART for the other end, though).
Which cables do you recommend? I read that I should use short ones, but which cables exactly dou you recommend? A link to a german shop would be very, very helpful!
Reichelt has some rather expensive ones[2]. Work for me but I can't say if they are any better than random ones from eBay. For the latter search for `10cm dupont female-female` (Buchse-Buchse).
Hope that helps, Nico
[1] https://www.elv.de/elv-highspeed-mini-usb-modul-um-ft2232h-komplettbausatz.h... Also needs a Mini-B (not the popular Micro-B) USB cable in case you don't have a spare one. [2] https://www.reichelt.de/ Search for: steckboard lbb
If u have an Raspi or Beaglebone laying around , they are also suitable for flashing
Am 25. November 2018 22:55:56 MEZ schrieb Nico Huber nico.h@gmx.de:
Hi Yannik,
On 25.11.18 20:05, Yannik Catalinac wrote:
For the SPI programmer I decided to use a CH341A, but when I search
for
it there are different CH341A. Which one should I buy?
It shouldn't matter as long as it says to be compatible to SPI 25 series. There were reports about bad batches of every kind (e.g. wrong voltage regulator), FWIW. So there's always a risk. I would pick one with a location in Europe (i.e. not China) so you don't wait weeks and then realize you got a bad one. I have one with a black board btw. that works fine.
As you asked for a German shop below, here[1] is a more expensive alternative to the CH341A. 5x the cost, up to 15x the speed (and can also work as a USB debugging device with coreboot; needs another TTL level UART for the other end, though).
Which cables do you recommend? I read that I should use short ones,
but
which cables exactly dou you recommend? A link to a german shop would
be
very, very helpful!
Reichelt has some rather expensive ones[2]. Work for me but I can't say if they are any better than random ones from eBay. For the latter search for `10cm dupont female-female` (Buchse-Buchse).
Hope that helps, Nico
[1] https://www.elv.de/elv-highspeed-mini-usb-modul-um-ft2232h-komplettbausatz.h... Also needs a Mini-B (not the popular Micro-B) USB cable in case you don't have a spare one. [2] https://www.reichelt.de/ Search for: steckboard lbb
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Hi Nico, please could you confirm that FT2232H (link to which you have provided) could work as a debug dongle? At "menuconfig" I only see USBDEBUG_DONGLE_FTDI_FT232H but not FT2232H , don't know how similar they are to each other
@kinky_nekoboi:
If u have an Raspi or Beaglebone laying around , they are also suitable for flashing
Although there's a problem with Raspi/Beaglebone/any-other-SBC(single.board.computer)-except-EOMA68 I have to mention - they're running the non-free binary blobs, and CH341A or Bus Pirate are better in this relation: CH341A - no firmware at all, just a few config registers ; Bus Pirate - completely open source firmware On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 1:36 AM kinky_nekoboi kinky_nekoboi@bluetardis.de wrote:
If u have an Raspi or Beaglebone laying around , they are also suitable for flashing
Am 25. November 2018 22:55:56 MEZ schrieb Nico Huber nico.h@gmx.de:
Hi Yannik,
On 25.11.18 20:05, Yannik Catalinac wrote:
For the SPI programmer I decided to use a CH341A, but when I search for it there are different CH341A. Which one should I buy?
It shouldn't matter as long as it says to be compatible to SPI 25 series. There were reports about bad batches of every kind (e.g. wrong voltage regulator), FWIW. So there's always a risk. I would pick one with a location in Europe (i.e. not China) so you don't wait weeks and then realize you got a bad one. I have one with a black board btw. that works fine.
As you asked for a German shop below, here[1] is a more expensive alternative to the CH341A. 5x the cost, up to 15x the speed (and can also work as a USB debugging device with coreboot; needs another TTL level UART for the other end, though).
Which cables do you recommend? I read that I should use short ones, but which cables exactly dou you recommend? A link to a german shop would be very, very helpful!
Reichelt has some rather expensive ones[2]. Work for me but I can't say if they are any better than random ones from eBay. For the latter search for `10cm dupont female-female` (Buchse-Buchse).
Hope that helps, Nico
[1] https://www.elv.de/elv-highspeed-mini-usb-modul-um-ft2232h-komplettbausatz.h... Also needs a Mini-B (not the popular Micro-B) USB cable in case you don't have a spare one. [2] https://www.reichelt.de/ Search for: steckboard lbb
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