[Tinyos-help] parallel port problem on Gentoo when running "make mica2 install"

[Elaine Cheong]

I don't think I changed anything, but now I have (when I try to use 
parport0):

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htaylor at ransom-urquell ~/tinyos-1.x/apps/Blink $ make mica2 install
     compiling Blink to a mica2 binary
ncc -o build/mica2/main.exe -Os -board=micasb -target=mica2  -Wall 
-Wshadow -DDEF_TOS_AM_GROUP=0x7d -Wnesc-all -finline-limit=100000 
-fnesc-cfile=build/mica2/app.c  Blink.nc -lm
     compiled Blink to build/mica2/main.exe
             1502 bytes in ROM
               49 bytes in RAM
avr-objcopy --output-target=srec build/mica2/main.exe 
build/mica2/main.srec
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/htaylor/tinyos-1.x/apps/Blink'
     installing mica2 binary
uisp -dprog=dapa -dpart=ATmega128 --wr_fuse_e=ff -dlpt=3 --erase
ioperm: Operation not permitted
Failed to get direct I/O port access.
make[1]: *** [reinstall] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/htaylor/tinyos-1.x/apps/Blink'
make: *** [install] Error 2
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Elaine

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, David Gay wrote:

> On 6/14/06, Elaine Cheong <celaine at eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>> We have an IBM T40 with Gentoo (kernel 2.6.15-gentoo-r1), and we are
>> unable to get "make mica2 install" to work. We ran "COMPILE" and "make
>> install" in tinyos-1.x/tools/src/uisp.
>> 
>> We tried:
>> mknod /dev/parport0 c 99 0
>> chmod 666 /dev/parport0
>> 
>> But we get:
>> ------
>> htaylor at ransom-urquell ~/tinyos-1.x/apps/Blink $ make mica2 install
>> mkdir -p build/mica2
>>      compiling Blink to a mica2 binary
>> ncc -o build/mica2/main.exe -Os -finline-limit=100000 -Wall -Wshadow
>> -DDEF_TOS_AM_GROUP=0x7d -Wnesc-all -target=mica2 
>> -fnesc-cfile=build/mica2/app.c
>> -board=micasb -I%T/lib/Deluge -DIDENT_PROGRAM_NAME=\"Blink\"
>> -DIDENT_USER_ID=\"htaylor\" -DIDENT_HOSTNAME=\"ransom-urquell\"
>> -DIDENT_USER_HASH=0x39c1918cL -DIDENT_UNIX_TIME=0x44907e9aL
>> -DIDENT_UID_HASH=0x91f5e321L Blink.nc -lm
>>      compiled Blink to build/mica2/main.exe
>>              1502 bytes in ROM
>>                49 bytes in RAM
>> avr-objcopy --output-target=srec build/mica2/main.exe build/mica2/main.srec
>> avr-objcopy --output-target=ihex build/mica2/main.exe build/mica2/main.ihex
>>      writing TOS image
>> cp build/mica2/main.srec build/mica2/main.srec.out
>>      installing mica2 binary with dapa
>> uisp -dprog=dapa --wr_fuse_h=0xd8 -dpart=ATmega128 --wr_fuse_e=ff  --erase
>> /dev/parport0: No such device or address
>> Failed to open ppdev.
>> make: *** [program] Error 2
>
> FWIW, I have found that there's something in Fedora which "undoes" the
> effect of chmod 666 /dev/parport0 after the first access to the
> parallel port. So I always have to do it twice (I haven't looked into
> the cause). This may or may not be your problem...
>
> David Gay
>