HALLELUJAH!  Doggone it, no sooner did I change it to S6 than it started
working!  Much appreciated.  And yes, it drives me nuts that they didn't add
the /dev/ directory (being a Mac guy, I like my /dev/ folder...)

Thanks again!
Greg Turnipseed


> From: Roland Tembo Hendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Organization: Solar Enigma Inc.
> Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 01:23:09 -0700
> To: 'Greg Turnipseed' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: RE: [Tinyos-help] Flash error at address....
> 
> If your programming (lower) com port is COM7 as presented by the Windoze
> (no)control panel, you should be using /dev/ttyS6.
> 
> Unix device entries start numbering at zero, because it makes sense. Windoze
> com ports start at 1 because the operating system was originally designed by
> accountants (now designed by lawyers).
> 
> Many tools cross-compiled for cygwin provide access to serial ports through
> a hokey library based emulation, which is why you don't see /dev/ttySx
> entries (unless you take specific steps to create them).
> 
> Read: not seeing /dev/ttySx entries is not a problem unless you're grumpy
> that it wasn't done properly. >:|
> 
> Cheers,
> R~
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:tinyos-help-
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Turnipseed
>> Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 12:35 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [Tinyos-help] Flash error at address....
>> 
>> Hello, everyone.  After much debate, I finally decided to scrap
>> programming
>> my motes via my Mac, and now I'm having other problems.  I've installed
>> tinyos on a PC, and am up to the point of trying to install Blink onto my
>> mote.  So, I type: make micaz install mib520,/dev/ttyS7
>> Then I get some progress, some compiling, and then ultimately a bunch of
>> flash errors:
>> Flash error at address 0x0: file=0x0c, mem=0x00
>> Flash error at address 0x1: file=0x94, mem=0x00
>> ...
>> Flash error at address 0x6e2: file=0x01, mem=0x00
>> 
>> Fuse High Byte set to 0xd9
>> 
>> Fuse Extended Byte set to 0xff
>> Rm -f build/micaz/main.exe.out-mib520 build/micaz/main.srec.out-mib520
>> 
>> 
>> So, I looked on the forums, help, etc., and found out that mib520 isn't
>> supported, and that I should just substitute mib510 instead.  That didn't
>> work either.  I get "Programmer is not responding.  make: *** [program]
>> Error 2".
>> 
>> So...what did I mess up?  I am absolutely certain that the com port (the
>> lower one for programming) is 7, and I'm certain that I'm using MIB520.
>> Interestingly, there's no /dev folder in cygwin.  Is this a problem?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Greg Turnipseed
>> 
>> 
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