Utility Software:
Matrix 504 includes busybox utility collection and Artila
utility software and there are placed at :
/sbin
/bin
/usr/bin
Please refer to Appendix for the utility collection list
Devices list
The supported devices are shown at /dev directory. Following
list are most popular ones:
1.
ttyS0: serial console port
2.
ttyS1 to ttyS4: serial port 1 to port 4
3.
sda to sdb: USB flash disk
4.
ttyUSB0 to ttyUSB1: USB RS-232 adaptor (fdti_sio.ko)
5.
rtc: Real Time Clock
6.
gpio: General Purpose digital I/O
7.
ttyACM0 and ttyACM1: USB Modem (CDC compliant)
Mounting External Storage Memory
To find out the device name of the external memory device
which plug into Matrix 504, you can use the command
/dmesg | grep sd
To find out the device type (sda or sdb)
And use
mount /dev/sda1
to mount the USB disk and folder is local at
/media/sda1
or
/mnt/sda1
Welcome Message
To modify the welcome message, user can use text edit to
modify the /etc/motd.
Web Page Directory
The web pages are placed at
/usr/share/apache2
and the
/etc/apache2/httpd.conf
contains the apache web server settings.
The home page name should be
index.html
Adjust the system time
To adjust the RTC time, you can follow the command
/
date MMDDhhmmYYYY
where
MM=Month (01~12)
DD=Date (01~31)
hh=Hour
mm=minutes
YYYY= Year
/hwclock
–
w
To write the date information to RTC
User can also use NTP client utility in Artila CD to adjust the
RTC time.
/
ntpclient [time server ip]
SSH Console
Matrix 504 supports SSH. If you use Linux computer, you can
use SSH command to login Matrix 504. The configuration of
SSH and key are located at
/etc/ssh
The key generation program is available at
/usr/bin
Putty Console Software
For Windows user, you can download the putty software at
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
download.html to use SSH to login Matrix-504
ipkg package software management
ipkg is a light software package utility. It can be used to
install, upgrade and remove the software package for Matrix-
504. Currently user can use ipkg to install the software packge
from Artila FTP. You can find the configuration at
ipkg.conf
When Matrix-504 is connected to network and issue command
ipkg update
To update the package list and use
ipkg install
to install software package and
ipkg remove
to remove software
ipkg list
to list available software
ipkg list_installed
to list software installed
Please refer to Appendix for more about
ipkg
