Hello friends, I installed tinyos-1.x on my windows system using the installation wizard provided by www.tinyos.net. The installation went fine and the programs compiled fine. Later I upgraded it to the latest CVS snapshot and did the CVS thing. But when I tried installing the code onto the mica2 mote I ran into problems. I am using the USB to serial MIB510 programming board. When I did "make mica2 install" it showed the very common flash error problem( Many people have had this problem earlier). Then i tried "make mica2 install mib510,COM1" ( as according to Crossbow instructions) I got the error " no such file or directory" and program error.
Then I tried make mica2 install mib510,/dev/ttyUSB0 and also make mica2 install mib510,/dev/ttyS0. Both resulted in the same kind of error i.e no such file or directory. In the /tinyos-1.x/apps directory there was no Makerules file present. I copied one file from my linux system and then tried. It still showed the same error. Then i checked the Makerules file and it had a line MIB510=/dev/ttyS0. I changed it to MIB510=COM1 and then tried. It still showed the same problem.I switched back to /dev/ttyS0 and also tried /dev/ttyUSB0 but still had no success. Then I checked the root directory in Cygwin and I found that there is no /dev directory.This is the first time I am using windows for tinyos-1.x. Earlier I worked with tinyos-1.x on a LINUX system. Now as I have tinyos-2.xon it I wanted to work on windows using Cygwin. Why is it that I dont have /dev directory on my Cygwin installation. I later reinstalled Cygwin and this time I did a complete installation i.e I installed everything in devel and base directories of Cygwin installation directories( to make myself very sure). But still there was no /dev directory. As I presume Cygwin to be an emulator of Linux it must have a /dev directory. i tried looking for a similar problem in mail archive but didnt find any. So can the Window programmers tell me a thing abt this Cygwin and why I dont have /dev in it. Later I was suggested by Tan Han Chiang to change to the July2005 snapshot of tinyos but still it shows the same error. Is it because I am using the USB programmer or something else. As my laptop has no serial port to it I must use the USB programmer only. So suggest me a way to tackle this. If there is no /dev directory how does cygwin detect devices? I will be eagerly waiting for you replies. Thanking You all Ali
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