Velleman K8000 & Linux HOWTO: Overview

## 1. Overview

## 1.1 About this HOWTO

This document describes how to setup your Velleman K8000 Board on a Linux system, using the i2c Kerneldrivers

If you have any suggestions to this document, than feel free to contact me:

- Heimo Schön <heimo.schoen@gmx.at>
- http://schoen.priv.at

Have a lot of fun with your Velleman K8000 Board.

## 1.2 Links

Links to other sites with aditional information to K8000 running with Linux:

- http://yahoogroups.com/group/k8000
- http://struyve.mine.nu:8080/pageloader.pl?block=k8000
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/k8000/files/linux/libk8000/

## 1.3 Thanks to

- hihihi <hihihi@wanadoo.nl> for his help in testing and correcting this mini-howto.

## 1.4 Version History

- 0.1 08 Dec 2001 first trial
- 0.2 28 Jan 2002 included a hint from Hihihi from NL to rmmod the lp-driver in the startscript
- 0.3 3 Feb 2002 A lot of corrections and new features from hihihi <hihihi@wanadoo.nl> included
- 0.4 6 Feb 2002 Minor bug fix from hihihi <hihihi@wanadoo.nl>