[Tinyos-help] TOSComm vs RXTX in Linux?

[Andy Dalton]

Greetings,

I'm wondering what is the status of TOSComm?  I'm currently using
rxtx-2.1-7pre17 in Linux and I frequently get the following error when
trying to send a message to a Tmote Sky over USB via MoteIF:

#
# An unexpected error has been detected by HotSpot Virtual Machine:
#
#  SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0xa841873a, pid=17051, tid=2820193184
#
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (1.5.0_05-b05 mixed mode)
# Problematic frame:
# C  [librxtxSerial-2.1-7pre17.so+0x773a]  initialise_event_info_struct+0x18a
#
# An error report file with more information is saved as hs_err_pid17051.log
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
#   http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport/crash.jsp
#

Will TOSComm do everything (i.e. support all the TinyOS tools) that
RXTX does?  If not, does anyone have any idea what might be causing
that error?

Also, I'm not on an RPM-based Linux system (I'm running Gentoo), where
can I find an install guide for TinyOS?

Thanks in advance,

Andy