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Subject: Re: Re: using ftdi in chroot on android

From: Thomas Jarosch <thomas.jarosch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: libftdi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 12:41:18 +0200
On Wednesday, 15. October 2014 11:34:13 Rogier Wolff wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 02:04:51PM -0400, Bradley Bauer wrote:
> > can libftdi be used in a linux chroot on android hardware? I have gentoo
> > and did successfully compile libftdi on my chroot.
> > 
> > I have the ttl-232r usb to serial cable and am trying to hook it up to
> > the nexus 7 android tablet.
> > 
> > when I call ftdi_usb_open() I am returned -3 error code, usb device not
> > found...
> 
> In a chroot, you need to mount /dev/ and /proc and possibly /sys to
> make certain things work.
> 
> mount -o bind /dev /chroot/dev
> 
> etc. I'd recommend doing all three, verifiy that this solves it, and
> then figure out the minimum set of mounts that are required to make it
> work.

'strace' also might help here to see which files / directories
libusb tries to access.

Thomas


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