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MiraBoxUser Guide –page1 / 27 MiraBox User Guide Contents A. Package contents.............................................................................................................................................. 2 B. MiraBox appearance and connecting ports................................................................................................... 4 C. LED indication.................................................................................................................................................... 6 D. System console and debugging ...................................................................................................................... 7 1. Driver and tool installation..................................................................................................................................... 7 2. Go into debugging console. ................................................................................................................................10 3. WiFi AP mode testing......................................................................................................................................... 11 4. WIFI Client mode testing .................................................................................................................................... 13 5. Gigabit ethernet ports......................................................................................................................................... 16 6. USB 3.0 port ..................................................................................................................................................... 17 7. Multi-IO port ...................................................................................................................................................... 18 8. Reset................................................................................................................................................................ 26 9. Download sites.................................................................................................................................................. 27 10. FCC STATEMENT......................................................................................................................................... 27 11. RF warning statement: ................................................................................................................................... 27 -Sep18, 2012

MiraBoxUser Guide –page2 / 27 A. Package contents 1． Standard package contents MiraBoxstandard content List Remark 1 MiraBox 1 unit Mirabox main unit 2 AC-DC Power Adapter 1 pc Input 90-240VAC / output 5V,3A DC 3 Ethernet Cable 1 pc Cat 5e 4 USB3.0 Cable 1 pc 5 Mini-USB Cable 1 pc For debug console use 6 Quick reference card 1 pc 7 Warranty card 1 pc 12453

MiraBoxUser Guide –page3 / 27  2. Optional package contents MiraBoxOptional Content List 6 Multi I/O Cable 1 pc Connect from MiraBox to JTAG/GPIO box 7 GPIO Cable 1 pc For GPIO port connection 8 MiraBox JTAG/GPIO box 1 pc External JTAG/GPIO box for debugging 867

MiraBoxUser Guide –page4 / 27  B. MiraBox appearance and connecting ports  123645

MiraBoxUser Guide –page5 / 27  Mirabox ports description Connection port Description Remark 1 Power Port DC 5V/3A port 2 RJ45 #1 Gigabit Ethernet port1 3 RJ45 #2 Gigabit Ethernet port2 4 USB 3.0 port#1 USB 3.0 high speed host 5 USB 3.0 port#2 USB 3.0 high speed host 6 Mini USB console port Debug console Connect to PC USB port 7 Multi-I/O port JTAG and GPIO port Connect to external JTAG/GPIO box for system development. 8 Micro SD slot External Micro-SD slot 9 Reset button hole System reset button Reset through GPIO 987

MiraBoxUser Guide –page6 / 27  C. LED indication LED indication table LED Color/ Pattern Description 1 Power on LED Solid green Upon power on, this LED lights up Blinking blue Indicate WiFi AP mode is activated as default after boot up 2 WiFi AP Off WiFi AP mode is not activated Blinking green WiFi client mode is activated 3 WiFi client Off WiFi client mode is not activated 312

MiraBoxUser Guide –page7 / 27  D. System console and debugging 1. Driver and tool installation. (1) Prepare one Windows PC (2) Download the serial communication tool “putty.exe”. (3) Downloadthe driver “2KXPVDock.exe”forProlific-USB-to-Serial-Comm-Portat our Website. http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/t-downloads.aspx (4) Install driver on your PC (only for the first time) (4-1) Connect Mirabox to your Windows PC (4-2) The first time when you connect Mirabox to the Windows computer you will be asked to install the driver Connect Mini USB cable here.The other end connects to computer’s USB port. 

$MiraBoxUser Guide –page8 / 27 (4-3) Run file “2KXPVDock.exe”and the driver will be installed to the PATH C:\cabs\2KXPVDock”. (5) Find out the com port of your debugger on your windows PC. (5-1) Right click [My Computer]  [Properties]  [Hardware]  [Device Manager] Click“Next”tocompletet$

MiraBoxUser Guide –page9 / 27 (5-2) Find out your com port as below (here is com3 for example) (6) Run “putty.exe”and configure as below on yourWindows PC. The “Serial line” should be configured the same as the COM port in Device Manager Give it a name and save for easy execution next time Give it a name and save for easy execution next time Click open

MiraBoxUser Guide –page10 / 27  2. Go into debugging console. (1) Power on the MiraBoxand you will see messages on screen as below (2) You can press any key to stop auto-boot when you see the bootdelay timer is counting down. After entering the uboot prompt, you can also change the uboot environment variables such asbootdelaytime, Ipaddr,serverip and so on. (3) If no key was pressed to interrupt the uboot, it will continue running to the login screen where urges you to input the login name and password, here is the default login information. Login :root Password: nosoup4u 

MiraBoxUser Guide –page11 / 27  (4) Now you are the root user and have the full control of the mirabox 3. WiFi AP mode testing MiraBoxServer has a built-in WiFi module which is in compliance with 802.11 b/g/n standard. The WiFican work as client or AP modebut only one at a time. The default mode is AP modeevery time when it powers on, and the indication light D6 is blinking blue. Here are steps for testing: (1) Enter command and you will see message for uap0 device. #ifconfig (2) Prepare one computer installed with Wi-Fi Lan card, here we use computer with Windows XP operating system for example. (3) Go to “Network Connections”as shown below.. 1. Select “Local Area connection 4”

MiraBoxUser Guide –page12 / 27  3. Choose name with “mira-uAP-6344”, here digits”6344” is the last four digits of MAC address for the MiraBoxWiFi Then click “Connect”.4. Successfully connected.2. Select “View Available Wireless Networks”

MiraBoxUser Guide –page13 / 27  4. WIFI Client mode testing (1) Switchto WiFiclient mode by giving command as following. # wlan.sh When done successfully, the LED(D7) is blinking green and mlan0 is activated. (2) To check mlan0 with ifconfig command # ifconfig

MiraBoxUser Guide –page14 / 27  (3) Scan for WiFi AP near-by # iwlist mlan0 scan

MiraBoxUser Guide –page15 / 27  (4) Connect to WiFi AP # iwconfig mlan0 essid<AP’s ID> # dhclient mlan0 # ifconfig mlan0 #ping 192.168.1.1 The below screenshot is a example for how to connect a mlan device. If you can see IP address (for example: 192.168.1.102) means you have already connected and got an IP. (5) Switch back to WiFi AP mode There are two useful script files: Client_ap.sh – switch from wifi client mode to wifi AP mode Wlan.sh – switch from wifi AP mode to wifi client mode

MiraBoxUser Guide –page16 / 27  5. Gigabit ethernet ports (1) Connect the two Gigabit Ethernet ports to Gigabit switch by Network cables. Normally it will get an IP address assigned by DHCP. Enter command as below to check: #ifconfig (2) Testing the speed of Gigabit Ethernet ports #ethtool eth0 Normally you will see the information as below: 

MiraBoxUser Guide –page17 / 27  6. USB 3.0 port (1) Plug in the usb3.0 hard disk or flash disk to the USB port then you can see some driver messages as below of this device (2) View the usb3.0 hard disk #fdisk-l you will see below messages of the usb3.0 devicewhich is usually shown as /dev/sdb*、/dev/sdc*. (3) Testing the access speed of the usb3.0 ports #hdparm-t /dev/sdc1 

MiraBoxUser Guide –page18 / 27  7. Multi-IO port Connect the MIRABOX JTAG/GPIO box to the Multi-IO port via Multi-IO cable. (1) JTAGinterfacePleaseconnectthedebuggertothe20‐pinJTAGslotasshownbelow,hereweusetheMarvellBlackStonedebuggerandXDB(MarvelleXtremeDebugger5.1)softwareonWindowsPCforexample.MiraBoxJTAG/GPIOboxMulti‐I/OCableMulti‐I/OportMulti‐I/Oport

MiraBoxUser Guide –page19 / 27 DebuggerconnectionRunXDBonWindowsPCMiraBoxJTAGGPIOMarvellBlackStonedebugger

$MiraBoxUser Guide –page20 / 27 (2) GPIOinterfaceandcontrol (2-1) There is a demo program to show the GPIO LEDs by entering command as below: #ledtest1 This will light up the LEDs for 3 seconds then light off. （2-2）Control the LED by yourself \ GPIOport1GPIOport2GPIOport3GPIOport4TheothersideisGPIOport0$

MiraBoxUser Guide –page21 / 27  a. preparation 1. Prepare a host pc with linux (as:fedora 14) installed, and download the cross tool chain “arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi-vfp.tar.bz2” from our websitehttp://www.plugcomputer.org/downloads/d2plug/orhttp://www.globalscaletechnologies.comor 2. Install and configure the tool chain Copy “arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi-vfp.tar.bz2” to directory /opt #cd /opt #tar -jxfarm-marvell-linux-gnueabi-vfp.tar.bz2 #ls #vim /root/.bashrc Add “export PATH=$PATH:/opt/arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi-vfp/bin” to last line as below, then save and exit. Enable the PATH #source /root/.bash_profile 

$MiraBoxUser Guide –page22 / 27  b. compile the program Here has an example “i2c_led.c” for you to debugging /*i2c_led.c*GTI‐‐Globalscaletechnologies.,INC**/#include<stdio.h>#include<linux/types.h>#include<stdlib.h>#include<fcntl.h>#include<unistd.h>#include<sys/types.h>#include<sys/ioctl.h>#include<errno.h>#defineI2C_RETRIES0x0701#defineI2C_TIMEOUT0x0702#defineI2C_RDWR0x0707#defineI2C_M_RD0x0001#defineI2C_M_NOSTART 0x4000/*ifI2C_FUNC_PROTOCOL_MANGLING*/#defineI2C_M_REV_DIR_ADDR0x2000/*ifI2C_FUNC_PROTOCOL_MANGLING*/#defineI2C_M_IGNORE_NAK0x1000/*ifI2C_FUNC_PROTOCOL_MANGLING*/#defineI2C_M_NO_RD_ACK 0x0800/*ifI2C_FUNC_PROTOCOL_MANGLING*/#defineI2C_M_RECV_LEN 0x0400/*lengthwillbefirstreceivedbyte*//*********definestructi2c_rdwr_ioctl_dataandstructi2c_msg，theymustbeconsistenttokernel*******/structi2c_msg{unsignedshortaddr;unsignedshortflags;#defineI2C_M_TEN0x0010unsignedshortlen;unsignedchar*buf;};structi2c_rdwr_ioctl_data{structi2c_msg*msgs;intnmsgs;/*thenmsgsdecidethenumofstartsignal*/};/***********themainprogram***********/intmain(){intfd,ret;$

$MiraBoxUser Guide –page23 / 27  structi2c_rdwr_ioctl_datae2prom_data;fd=open("/dev/i2c‐0",O_RDWR);/*/dev/i2c‐0isregisteredtothesystem*/if(fd<0){perror("openerror");}e2prom_data.nmsgs=2;e2prom_data.msgs=(structi2c_msg*)malloc(e2prom_data.nmsgs*sizeof(structi2c_msg));if(!e2prom_data.msgs){perror("mallocerror");exit(1);}ioctl(fd,I2C_TIMEOUT,1);/*timeout*/ioctl(fd,I2C_RETRIES,2);/*retriestimes*//***writedatatoe2prom**/e2prom_data.nmsgs=1;(e2prom_data.msgs[0]).len=2;(e2prom_data.msgs[0]).addr=0x25;//e2promdeviceaddress(e2prom_data.msgs[0]).flags=0;//write(e2prom_data.msgs[0]).buf=(unsignedchar*)malloc(2);/***********controltheGPIOOP‐0**************************************/(e2prom_data.msgs[0]).buf[0]=0x18;//e2promwriteaddress(e2prom_data.msgs[0]).buf[1]=0x0;//thedatatowriteret=ioctl(fd,I2C_RDWR,(unsignedlong)&e2prom_data);if(ret<0){perror("ioctlerror2");}/***********controltheGPIOOP‐1**************************************/(e2prom_data.msgs[0]).buf[0]=0x19;//e2promwriteaddress(e2prom_data.msgs[0]).buf[1]=0x0;//thedatatowriteret=ioctl(fd,I2C_RDWR,(unsignedlong)&e2prom_data);if(ret<0){perror("ioctlerror2");}$

$MiraBoxUser Guide –page24 / 27  /***********controltheGPIOOP‐2**************************************///turnonLED(e2prom_data.msgs[0]).buf[0]=0x1a;//e2promwriteaddress(e2prom_data.msgs[0]).buf[1]=0x0;//thedatatowriteret=ioctl(fd,I2C_RDWR,(unsignedlong)&e2prom_data);if(ret<0){perror("ioctlerror3");}//turnoffLEDsleep(1);//delay1second(e2prom_data.msgs[0]).buf[0]=0x1a;//e2promwriteaddress(e2prom_data.msgs[0]).buf[1]=0xFF;//thedatatowriteret=ioctl(fd,I2C_RDWR,(unsignedlong)&e2prom_data);if(ret<0){perror("ioctlerror3");}/***********controltheGPIOOP‐3**************************************///turnonLEDsleep(1);(e2prom_data.msgs[0]).buf[0]=0x1b;//e2promwriteaddress(e2prom_data.msgs[0]).buf[1]=0x0;//thedatatowriteret=ioctl(fd,I2C_RDWR,(unsignedlong)&e2prom_data);if(ret<0){perror("ioctlerror4");}//turnoffLEDsleep(1);(e2prom_data.msgs[0]).buf[0]=0x1b;//e2promwriteaddress(e2prom_data.msgs[0]).buf[1]=0xFF;//thedatatowriteret=ioctl(fd,I2C_RDWR,(unsignedlong)&e2prom_data);if(ret<0){perror("ioctlerror4");}$

$MiraBoxUser Guide –page25 / 27  Copy this program to file “i2c_led.c” and save to “/home” directory or other else, and compile it use cross-compile tool just have been installed. #cd /home #arm-marvell-linux-gnueabi-gcc -o led i2c_led.c Then copy the executable file “led” to Mirabox and run it. You can see the LED is controlled by youself. /***********controltheGPIOOP‐4**************************************///turnonLEDsleep(1);(e2prom_data.msgs[0]).buf[0]=0x1c;//e2promwriteaddress(e2prom_data.msgs[0]).buf[1]=0x0;//thedatatowriteret=ioctl(fd,I2C_RDWR,(unsignedlong)&e2prom_data);if(ret<0){perror("ioctlerror5");}//turnoffLEDsleep(1);(e2prom_data.msgs[0]).buf[0]=0x1c;//e2promwriteaddress(e2prom_data.msgs[0]).buf[1]=0xFF;//thedatatowriteret=ioctl(fd,I2C_RDWR,(unsignedlong)&e2prom_data);if(ret<0){perror("ioctlerror5");}printf("testingok\n");close(fd);return0;}$

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