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Marc Singer wrote on 19/02/08 03:37 MET:
> I think I know what is preventing me from running gdbproxy (successfully),
> but I'm not really sure why.
> 
> When I insert the USB cable into my Linux host (Debian Etch), I can see
> 
> crw-rw---- 1 root root    254,  17 2008-02-18 18:31 usbdev3.73_ep00
> crw-rw---- 1 root root    254,  18 2008-02-18 18:31 usbdev3.73_ep01

What do you see when running 'dmesg' before and after pluging in the
MSP430-FET430UIF?

> But I see no ttyUSB0 as everyone seems to expect.  It looks like the driver
> ti_usb_3410_5052 isn't available on Debian Etch, nor in any of the older
> kernels.

It's already available in older kernels but it "knows" the MSP430-FET430UIF
only in later kernels. There are ways to teach the driver to know the
MSP430-FET430UIF - see
<ftp://ftp.fl.priv.at/pub/msp430/ez430/ez430-on-SuSE-10.2.txt>. The EZ430
is basically the same a the MSP430-FET430UIF only that it supports just
Spire-by-Wire.

> According to other notes on the net, there is some sort of issue with this
> driver in the 2.6.24 kernels.

Ok, that I don't know of.

> So,
> 
>   1) Is this driver necessary to use the FET JTAG debugger?

Definitely, as it downloads the USB firmware to it and is a serial driver
so you get to see the device /dey/ttyUSB0 when it's plugged in.

>   2) Can someone give a recipe for using FET JTAG on Debian/Etch?

Look at my howto which should apply with minimal changes to Debian as well.

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Friedrich Lobenstock

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