K8055 USB board

I picked up one of these in the trove at Makespace, thinking it was a cheap board, and it turns out to be a nifty bit of kit I can use for testing. If it were both expensive and useless to me, I’d return it, but I have plans for it in testing Itchy. I’d like to be able to see a slowed-down schem of the Gcode, f’rex. Outputting directly from my computer to an external board is a goal, and this is a step along the way.

Making it work on Arch was not a problem. Making it work as described on Arch was pretty horrible. In fact, I failed at just about every point.

The only available package is moribund, which at least means I don’t have to keep it updated. Make Install was not my friend but I stripped out the default install path and put in the correct one, then kicked a few things around. I wish I could remember what.

Then I entirely failed to make udev play happily. USB Device. Udev. I have a USB device. Is it devicing? Is it hell. I don’t know if it is because I run k8055 and that tries to take the device – Arch does not have the usual installation paths for everything, so there could be something seriously funky going on. I think it’s just malconfigured, though. I am just as likely to have fucked up small as big.

It had the same error message when I had the wrong group name as when I detypoed, so something is finding the rules and failing to pass them. Currently I can work with sudo or sticky bit. Neither is ideal.