Setup Of The Development Environment - WAGO 750 Series Manual

100 • Step-by-Step Guide to your own Linux Application

Setup of the Development Environment

5.4 Setup of the Development Environment
For application creation, administration and diagnostics you need a PC with a
current Linux distribution. We recommend S.U.S.E version 8.3 to 10.0 as
Linux distribution. The performance of the developer's PC should at least meet
the requirements indicated by the Linux distribution.
Communication with the Linux fieldbus coupler is possible via the serial and
via the Ethernet interface. In order to avoid communication problems between
PC and Linux coupler via Ethernet, we recommend that both devices operate
in the same network.
A SUSE standard installation already provides you with the most important
programs for the communiction with the Linux coupler.
Task
Serial console
Ethernet console
Web browser
File explorer
File transfer
Editor
The installation of the following programs adds to the convenience:
• ncurses
• FTP client/server
• NFS server
In order to update images for Bootloader, firmware and file system on the
Linux fieldbus coupler you require a TFTP server.
Please see chapter 9.2.
Program
minicom
telnet
konqueror
konqueror
konqueror
kate, emacs Any editor
Part of S.U.S.E installation if all development packages are installed
For file exchange with the FTPserver/ client of the Linux coupler
For easy file exchange with the Linux fieldbus coupler
Description
For communication with console of Linux fieldbus coupler
via serial interface
For communication with console of Linux fieldbus coupler
via Ethernet
Tool to view HTML files or to query the web server of the
Linux fieldbus coupler
Visual tool to navigate the file system
Visual tool for the FTP file transfer via "Drag and Drop"
WAGO-I/O-SYSTEM 750
Linux Fieldbus Coupler