[Tinyos-help] COM port in Cygwin

[Michael Schippling]

I have a tickle of a memory that I read about a port number limit
...someplace... I believe my problem occurred with telsob's under
Widows 2K having numbers in the COM20's. Some diligent soul might
find a real answer, but I go for the JustMakeItWork(TM) technique....
thx
MS

Raffaele Gravina wrote:
> Not sure if it's actually windows that has troubles with (virtual) COM 
> ports above 15, as in cygwin I definitely flash tmotes assigned to ports 
> higher that 15. 
> However, i had problems trying to flash the micaz... there i had to 
> re-assign manually (thru the Windows device manager) the COM port to one 
> below 15.
> 
> - Raffaele
> 
> 2009/7/16 Michael Schippling <schip at santafe.edu <mailto:schip at santafe.edu>>
> 
>     Widows XP has trouble with COM ports above 15 (I think that's the max),
>     so Vista probably does as well... I don't know how the FTDI driver
>     assigns numbers so I had to un&re-install it to get it to reset.
>     The number also seems to be dependent on the USB port and hub
>     so you could try different holes.
> 
>     Also, if you are using the MIB520, native USB programmer, it has
>     two sequential numbers, one for programming and +1 (again, IIRC...)
>     for talking to the base-station serial.
> 
>     MS
> 
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>      > Subject:
>      > COM port in Cygwin
>      > From:
>      > antonio.guerrieri at email.it <mailto:antonio.guerrieri at email.it>
>      > Date:
>      > Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:41:21 +0200
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>      > tinyos-help at millennium.berkeley.edu
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>      > Hello,
>      > I have a problem with my COM port.
>      > I'm using Cygwin in Windows Vista OS and it works everything fine.
>      > I can deploy code on TelosB with no problems and connect my laptop to
>      > the COM port of the TelosB, too.
>      > I started to have problems when I tried to use a type of Mica2
>     platform
>      > with a programming board.
>      > Once I installed the programmer drivers, I plugged the programmer
>     in my
>      > USB port and typing "motelist" in cygwin I had this answer:
>      >
>      > $ motelist
>      > Reference  CommPort   Description
>      > ---------- ---------- ----------------------------------------
>      > A1000PjJ   COM25      Port_#0001.Hub_#0002
>      >
>      > So, I tried to compile the Blink application and it was
>     everything fine.
>      > When I had to deploy my code to the node I used this string:
>      >
>      > make mica2 reinstall mib510,/dev/ttyS24
>      >
>      > is it correct? I tried to type some other ports just to hope in a
>     lucky one!
>      >
>      > This is my problem… any suggestions?
>      >
>      > Thanks a lot for your attention,
>      > Antonio Guerrieri
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