Welcome to FOX Board G20 wiki pages
Welcome to the main and official source of technical doc related to the FOX Board G20 an ARM9 Linux embedded Single Board Computer power by the Netus G20 a 40×40 mm CPU that integrates an Atmel ARM9 CPU at 400MHz, 64MByte of RAM and 8MByte dataflash memory.
All the tutorials, examples, schematics, news, articles, links, forums, etc. related to these board that we know are linked on this site. If you have notice of other materials useful for the users please send us the link to foxg20@acmesystems.it.
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Please read our terms and conditions before use the material available on this site.
Basic knowledges
- Discovering the IP address How to find the FOX IP address
- Using the SSH session How to access the command line prompt (shell)
- Using the SCP session How to transfer and edit files on the FOX
Resources
Before to send and email or call Acme Systems please note that we are hardware designers and not Linux gurus so try to post your software questions on the FOX Board G20 forums to be sure that all the contributors of this site and the large software developers community will read your questions.
- FAQ and Troubleshootings
Programming languages
Install directly on the FOX Board G20 many compilers and interpreters and run the classic “Hello world !” example:
IDE environment
Using USB devices
Using other peripherals
- GPIO lines Blink-a-led and press-a-button examples
- Using the serial ports How to test and use the serial ports
- Using 4DSystems oLed How to wire and use a 4D systems oLed graphic display
- FOXGM board Getting start with FOXGM extension board
Linux device drivers
Others
- Binary repository Binary files to create bootable microSD
- Partition & Format a bootable microSD How to partition and format a microSD to use with FOX
- Program the serial dataflash memory Reset the 8MB dataflash to the factory default
- In-System programming with SAM-BA Small guide to the Atmel ISP utility to have access to the RAM and Dataflash memory
- Building Debian "Lenny" from sources How to rebuild Debian “Lenny” Linux starting from sources
- u-Boot patch and compiling How to rebuild U-Boot starting from sources
Funny stuff
Hardware references
Contributes
Many thanks for their contribute on this documentation to: Davide Cantaluppi, Claudio Mignanti, Stefano Barbato, Lee McLoughlin, Roberto Fasulo, Andrea Leganza, John Crispin, Luca Pascarella, Marco Cavallini, Tiziano Galizia, Sebastien Philippe, Antonio Galea, Matteo Carnevali and to the developers community of the Open Source softwares mentioned on it.
Here you will find more info about the authors: About the authors
Linux distributions
By default the FOX Board G20 boots Linux from the microSD card. It's possible to buy a ready-to-use microSD card or create it by yourself following this tutorial.
Here you can find some distributions already installed by the FOX users and used by Acme Systems to write the tutorials but thanks to the ARM9 CPU and to the hardware compatibility with the Atmel AT91SAM9G20-EK evaluation kit a lot of other enviroments can be installed. If you successfully tried other environments please send us any related useful information to add it on this website.
Terms and conditions
Acme Systems provides this documentation “as is” without warranty or guarantees of any kind. A great deal of effort has gone into making this documentation as correct as possible but, due to the huge amount of info incoming from the developer communities, it's always under construction .
Acme Systems doesn't provide any direct support for the Open Source preinstalled software but provides, through these pages and forum posts, all the information to install, use and update the software environments runnable on the FOX Board/Netus G20 platform.
Please note that all the preinstalled softwares, used on the Acme Systems products, are Open Source and so you have to check by yourself the license terms provided by each author (usually the GPL) before use it in any commercial or not product.
Debian
Debian on FOX Board G20 documentation index
How to build Debian for FOX Board G20
Thanks to Lee McLoughlin for this porting
Gentoo
Brief introduction to Gentoo
How to build Gentoo for FOX Board G20
Thanks to Davide Cantaluppi (http://www.kdev.it) for this porting.
KaeilOS
KaeilOS is a Linux distribution made by the Italian software system integrator KOAN who offers commercial support on it.
OpenWRT
OpenWRT on FOX Board G20 documentation index
Thanks to Claudio Mignanti for this porting
Hi-res photos
This is a list of hi-res photo useful for articles, catalogs, web pages, brochures, etc. Feel free to use them but please don't forget to mention the author Roberto Fasulo.
Netus G20
Netus G20 top side
Netus G20 bottom side
Netus G20 detail 1
Netus G20 detail 2
FOX Board G20
FOX Board G20 top side
FOX Board G20 bottom side
 | FOX Board G20 combo box All you need to evaluate the FOX Board G20 linux board. This kit includes:
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 | FOX Board G20 FOX Board G20 is a "ready-to-run" Embedded Linux System perfect to use as a mini WEB server, network device or as a core module for your own embedded devices. A fully Open Source environment is available to customize and build your own kernel image or to develop user applications using standard GNU tools. Version with Atmel AT91SAM9G20 with 8MB of DATAFLASH, 64MB of SDRAM and up to 8GB of microSD. FOX Board G20 Includes:
Warning: The FOX Board G20 doesn't work without the microSD with rootFS. This memory card is not included.
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 | Debian microSD 2G memory card Bootable 2GB microSD Memory with a preinstalled Debian Linux distribution for the FOX Board G20. Warning: Please note that this card contains Open Source code under GPL licence and you are buying just the memory card not the software on it. Any right on this software or any support are not included-
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 | Gentoo microSD 2G memory card Bootable 2GB microSD Memory with a preinstalled Gentoo Linux distribution for the FOX Board G20. Warning: Please note that this card contains Open Source code under GPL licence and you are buying just the memory card not the software on it. Any right on this software or any support are not included
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 | TUX Case TUX Case is a plastic enclosure for the FOX Board G20 that resembles the very popular Linux icon TUX drawn by Larry Ewing. FOX Board and PS5V1A are not included.
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