[Tinyos-help] Problem with USB-to-Serial Cable for mote-pc communication

[Philip Levis]

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 sf at 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