[Tinyos-1.2wg] Re: Tools for 1.2

[Ion Yannopoulos]

David Gay wrote:

>>--- Linux kernel ---
>>We may want to recommend Linux users use 2.4.x series kernel because
>>USB support in 2.6.x is f'ed up -- we get intermittent strange
>>behavior on USB otherwise.  The other options is to work with the
>>Linux kernel developers and stabilize USB support (hahaha).
>>    
>>
>
>FC3 seems to work (except for that motelist issue).
>
Cory can no doubt be more detailed but the issue as us 410 people have 
observed it on Omega is not that javax.comm doesn't work but that it 
doesn't work consistently.  A small subset of nodes in the testbed will 
disappear with each reboot.  Perhaps more frustratingly, on any given 
run certain people can usefully connect with either Sun's javax.comm 
(patched with RxTx), or IBM's, but not both -- and there is no obvious 
pattern to why yet.

So FC3 may work... or it may be working for you, at the moment :P.

I don't think its necessarily practical to expect people to use 2.4.  
But we should consider recommending it anyway until we've got a handle 
on the bug(s).

Ion