[Tinyos-help] telosb with windows 8

2013-06-06 Thread Michael Schippling
Has anyone used serial port communication to a telosb mote under Windows 8? I have a program that works fine under XP but I don't seem to be able to get the right FTDI driver magic under 8. We, may have, followed the instructions for loading their VCP driver. When the program starts it detects

Re: [Tinyos-help] any documentation on tasklets?

2013-06-06 Thread Miklos Maroti
Hi Eric! There is no internal documentation of the Tasklet interface, so let me post it here if others would be interested. The RFXLINK stack almost never uses atomic sections (unlike other radio stacks) because we ensure that the stack is not reentered asynchronously. If a (radio or timer)

Re: [Tinyos-help] any documentation on tasklets?

2013-06-06 Thread Johny Mattsson
On 7 June 2013 02:56, Miklos Maroti mmar...@math.u-szeged.hu wrote: If Tasklets are configured to run in interrupt context, then taking the first interrupt (A) we call Tasklet.schedule() which will call the Taskletr.run() command immediately, but it remembers internally that a tasklet is

Re: [Tinyos-help] telosb with windows 8

2013-06-06 Thread He Dajiang (I2R)
It looks like a FTDI driver problem. Try the followings: 1) reinstall the USB to serial driver? (http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/FD238ED75B22740B86257315004E35FE) 2) use other serial COM reading code like .NET to test whether there is incoming data on the particular port. 3) use the