- Thu Nov 26, 2009 6:58 am
#85983
Hi,
I'm about ready to tear my hair out here. I'm trying to program the sparkfun msp430 PIR detector and totally failing at getting the MSP-JTAG (parallel port version) working. The doc is pretty slim and the error messages are unclear. I've tried in two different computers and I've tried all sorts of parallel port settings in the PC and on Vista and XP and Vista in all the OS compatability modes.
I hook the programmer to my PC and the PIR detector and the LED comes on so power is being delivered.
When I first (on boot) try to use the Olimex programmer software set to LPT1 if I click the "read" button I get: "Port has been configured. Please reboot and try running again". Huh? What the heck does that mean?
After that I just get "Cannot initialize the port!". I get that even with no programmer plugged in.
At least the doc could tell me which parallel port mode to run in (ECP, Bidirectional, Normal) with interrupts on or off so I could get started. This is just silly. I also don't know whether to have the jumpers on the PIR set to Olimex or TI jtag modes (why are there two modes anyway?).
Does anyone know if the real TI usb programmer from TI is any more robust? I'm happy to spend the extra money to get real doc and support and based on reading this forum no way do I want the olimex usb programmer (I'm running out of hair).
Mark
I'm about ready to tear my hair out here. I'm trying to program the sparkfun msp430 PIR detector and totally failing at getting the MSP-JTAG (parallel port version) working. The doc is pretty slim and the error messages are unclear. I've tried in two different computers and I've tried all sorts of parallel port settings in the PC and on Vista and XP and Vista in all the OS compatability modes.
I hook the programmer to my PC and the PIR detector and the LED comes on so power is being delivered.
When I first (on boot) try to use the Olimex programmer software set to LPT1 if I click the "read" button I get: "Port has been configured. Please reboot and try running again". Huh? What the heck does that mean?
After that I just get "Cannot initialize the port!". I get that even with no programmer plugged in.
At least the doc could tell me which parallel port mode to run in (ECP, Bidirectional, Normal) with interrupts on or off so I could get started. This is just silly. I also don't know whether to have the jumpers on the PIR set to Olimex or TI jtag modes (why are there two modes anyway?).
Does anyone know if the real TI usb programmer from TI is any more robust? I'm happy to spend the extra money to get real doc and support and based on reading this forum no way do I want the olimex usb programmer (I'm running out of hair).
Mark