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>This is good to know. I'm doing this directly from DOS (6.2); if I can
>get the RS232 setup working, I'd love to run it under dosemu in Linux.
>Anyone know of programmers that run from unix directly? I could always
>try to port blowpic...

There is a free source for LPT connected PIC programmers for Linux
It should be "configurable" to different programmers however the
version we downloaded actually is not very configurable. Well we
did modify the source so it now works with at least with David Tait's
software, well AN589 also, and Don McKenzie's programmer and possible
few other as well. We have not yet uploaded that modified
code, as there is not much of our original code.

We hope to port all our soft/drivers to Linux and to have "Kernel
mode loadable drivers" in some times in the future... However you
may have to wait a while - currently I have to manually switch
Hardrives to boot into Linux!

If interested in working Linux code for D. Tait's programmer we sure
can upload it to our site. It want run with blowpic without source
code modifications!

PIP should work now with blowpic hardware. I made few test
programming attempts, all OK 5 out of 5!

RS-232 programmer should work with +5 power supply, well
VDD is switched, but thats not required. VPP must be
switched under program control. If can verify the DATA
readback with the drvtst1 program then should the programming
also work. You might also check what Serial Port Chip your PC
has. It may be that our driver doesnt work with 16550 chipsets.
If so we will fix it.

antti

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