Sometimes, under WinXP, I have to use something like Hyperterminal to initially open and close the COM port to which the MIB510 is attached before programs under Cygwin can do it.  It might just be my laptop, though.

      - Conor

On 7/10/06, Sankar Gorthi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As you can see, the compilation results show this output:
  compiled Blink to build/mica2/main.exe
                  0 bytes in ROM
                  0 bytes in RAM

Is there anything in particular that can be said about this?

Sankar.


On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:34:01 -0500, Sankar Gorthi
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> It's not your typical Flash error of death, but it is just as
> frustrating.
>
> Steps adhered to:
> 1. Install tinyos-1.1.0 with cygwin, etc. (typical installation)
> 2. Try programming mica2 with Blink - works fine.
> 2. Upgrade Cygwin with the latest setup file from www.cygwin.com
> 3. Upgrade nesc to nesc-1.1.2b ...
> 4. Upgrade tinyos to tinyos-1.1.10Jan2005cvs-1.cygwin.noarch
> 5. Try programming a mica2 mote with Blink:
> Result:
> $ MIB510=COM4 make mica2 install
>      compiling Blink to a mica2 binary
> ncc -o build/mica2/main.exe -Os -board=micasb -target=mica2  -Wall
> -Wshadow -DDE
> F_TOS_AM_GROUP=0x7d -Wnesc-all -finline-limit=100000
> -fnesc-cfile=build/mica2/ap
> p.c  Blink.nc -lm
>      compiled Blink to build/mica2/main.exe
>                 0 bytes in ROM
>                 0 bytes in RAM
> avr-objcopy --output-target=srec build/mica2/main.exe
> build/mica2/main.srec
> make[1]: Entering directory `/opt/tinyos-1.x/apps/Blink'
>      installing mica2 binary
> uisp -dprog=mib510 -dserial=COM4 -dpart=ATmega128 --wr_fuse_e=ff
> --erase --uplo
> ad  if=build/mica2/main.srec
>
> At this point the programmer LED (red) glows and then nothing. Cygwin
> and the programmer board maintain this state until I hit ctrl+c to stop
> the process.
>
> I tried installing tinyos-1.1.10 without upgrading cygwin, but it gave
> me the "__getreent" error.
>
> I tried installing the cygwin upgrade given on the tinyos.net/download
> page. No luck.
>
> I tried changing the programmer (to another MIB510). No luck there
> either.
> Different mote, same problem.
>
> Please help. Do I need to use a different version of cygwin or tinyos? I
> need to use the tinyos-1.1.10 version as it is the recommended version
> for programming the Cricket series of motes.
>
> Sankar.
>
> Extraneous info:
> I added a PCI card to add 4 serial ports to my PC which came with none
> (NetMos Quad ports: PCI NM9845CV). The drivers for this were good and
> I've tried the ports with MATLAB, LabVIEW, Hyperlink etc. No problems
> there. Ports are installed properly. Com4 is the first port on this card.
>
>



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