[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] 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