On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Byron A Jeff wrote:

> I apologize profusely for the problems that you are having. I promise that
> I will use this discussion to update the documentation on the project.

No need for apologies, I appreciate all the help you've been giving
me and the work of coming up with it in the first place!

Well, I've got some good news an I've got some bad news.  The good news is
I got some data into the PIC, the bad news is that it didn't verify back
(got a lot of "3FFF !=" messages), also the bad news (good news?) is that
it was with picprg2.3c under a 2.2 kernel.  Verifying back was close, but
still a bit garbled.  It still didn't work at all under 2.4 kernel using
picprg2.3d

I've made a new RS232 connection, much more sturdy then my last and about
a foot long (added pin 6 connection).  I took it into my basement to an
older linux pc (2.2 kernel)and once I got the pins configured right in
2.3c, I was able to toggle the pins successfully.

I've stopped testing under FPP which is a shame, I keep an old windows pc
by my electronic desk, but I've got two guesses as to my general problems:

1) I fried the parallel port on my linux laptop w/ 2.4 kernel (probably
not, but I can verify)
2) picprg2.3d doesn't work under the 2.4 kernel (beta right?)

I'm just dumping in a hex file basically for the F84, but I modified (I
think enough) to work in the 16F628, I don't know if that'd cause it to
not verify it right.  if anyone has a basic hex to test with I'd try that.

I should probably go back over the wires one more time, maybe toss a fresh
pic in there, I don't know.  But I'm still going on it.

Jay

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