Comments on: Getting your X10 CM19A Module Working in Linux

By: David Merrick

David Merrick — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:35:24 +0000

I actually realized my problem was I didn’t have build-essential installed. After I did, the modules compiled just fine.

By: David Merrick

David Merrick — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 23:34:45 +0000

@Charlie: I got mine working with the Python driver from http://www.cuddon.net/2009/08/python-driver-v01-for-cm19a-x10.html. It’s not as clean of a solution as this one, but seeing as this one has a few bugs on Ubuntu 9.10 server for now it works faster than I had expected and is easy to set up.

By: David Merrick

David Merrick — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 23:01:32 +0000

@Charlie–I’m getting the same error message installing on an Ubuntu 9.10 server as well. I had done the same install successfully on a 9.10 Desktop, so it doesn’t make sense to me why this isn’t working. I’ll try a few things on my own to figure it out and will post back.

By: Shelby Denike

Shelby Denike — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:21:41 +0000

Also when this happens the syslog shows the following

Aug 5 11:20:19 control kernel: [ 223.292866] x10-cm19a: devf_open: Couldn’t submit interrupt input URB: -28
Aug 5 11:20:22 control kernel: [ 226.360844] x10-cm19a: devf_open: Couldn’t submit interrupt input URB: -28

And dmesg shows the following

[ 223.292866] x10-cm19a: devf_open: Couldn’t submit interrupt input URB: -28
[ 226.360844] x10-cm19a: devf_open: Couldn’t submit interrupt input URB: -28
This is Linux Kernel 2.6.32-21-generic-pae

By: Shelby Denike

Shelby Denike — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:19:08 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial, seems to be working for the MOST part… The driver compiles and loads. I am able to echo commands to it and the devices turn on/off … but after X hours when i try to send commands to the device I get the following

$ echo +A1 > /dev/cm19a0
bash: /dev/cm19a0: No space left on device
$

Any ideas on this? Running this on Ubuntu Server 10.4 … Thanks!

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:41:26 +0000

Just compiled and installed the driver on Fedora 13 Kernel 2.6.33.6-147.fc13.x86_64
No problems, after I installed the kernel-devel pkg.
It works great.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:01:35 +0000

Building x10-cm19a for Ubuntu 9.10 I get:
Building X10-CM19A for 2.5/2.6 kernel…
(make sure you have write access to your kernel source tree)
make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build SUBDIRS=/tmp/x10-cm19a-0.1.1 modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-34-fitpc2′
CC [M] /tmp/x10-cm19a-0.1.1/drivers/usb/comm/x10-cm19a.o
LD [M] /tmp/x10-cm19a-0.1.1/x10-cm19a.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST 1 modules
WARNING: modpost: Found 1 section mismatch(es).
To see full details build your kernel with:
‘make CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y’
CC /tmp/x10-cm19a-0.1.1/x10-cm19a.mod.o
LD [M] /tmp/x10-cm19a-0.1.1/x10-cm19a.ko
Is this section mismatch a problem? I’m on a custom kernel for this system so I need to be a bit careful.

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:12:07 +0000

got this:

Building X10-CM19A for 2.5/2.6 kernel…
(make sure you have write access to your kernel source tree)
make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build SUBDIRS=/home/CONSUMERS/smckee/Documents/src/x10-cm19a-0.0.5 modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-22-generic’
scripts/Makefile.build:49: *** CFLAGS was changed in “/home/CONSUMERS/smckee/Documents/src/x10-cm19a-0.0.5/Makefile”. Fix it to use EXTRA_CFLAGS. Stop.
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/CONSUMERS/smckee/Documents/src/x10-cm19a-0.0.5] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-22-generic’
make: *** [all] Error 2

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:09:27 +0000

By: Conrad

Conrad — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 07:40:47 +0000

thank you! thank you! thank you!
I read the (rather sparse) one-page X10MMS instructions and although I’d got the driver install and it looked like it was working and all… ok now what?
no mention of the elusive “echo +A1 > /dev/cm19a0” command to actually, you know, do stuff…

once again, THANK YOU!