I used to teach a course based on project boards with serial ports, so of course students using serial-free laptops had to buy USB-serial converters. Broadly speaking, these devices (and/or their drivers) are total pieces of crap. Seriously, about 1 in 3 worked as advertised. My advice is to keep buying more of them until you find one that works for you, then buy a small pile of that model.
John Regehr On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, Philip Levis wrote: > > On Jan 4, 2009, at 11:29 AM, Yu (Jason) Gu wrote: > >> Hi Phil, >> >> For the C-based SF, I started it with: >> >> ./sf 9002 /dev/ttyUSB0 57600 >> >> For the java application, I have: >> >> -comm s...@localhost:9002 >> >> From SF side, I can see the java application connects to the SF and >> displays: >> >> clients 1, read 0, wrote 0 >> >> But there is no incoming data for the java application. I have >> double checked this application with a actual serial port (on a dock >> station for the same laptop), it worked fine for both java-based or >> C-based SF. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Jason > > Hm. It sounds like there's something funny about your specific USB > serial dongle then. I've certainly had serial forwarders (Java and C) > work with them. > > Phil > _______________________________________________ > Tinyos-help mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinyos-help > _______________________________________________ Tinyos-help mailing list [email protected] https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinyos-help
