On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 12:08:29AM -0500, Jay Jacobs wrote:
> 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 appreciate the vote of confidence.

>
> 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

Hmmm. I'm just now doing my first testing under a 2.4.18 kernel. My 2.3e
(with the minor update of changing the default pins to match TLVP) seems to
work OK with my parallel port.

>
> 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.

Cool.

>
> 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:

FPP will work. I've gotten successful reports. BTW what version of Windows
are you running?

>
> 1) I fried the parallel port on my linux laptop w/ 2.4 kernel (probably
> not, but I can verify)

I hope not.

> 2) picprg2.3d doesn't work under the 2.4 kernel (beta right?)

Very beta. But again I've just started testing it and I'm programming OK with
my setup.

>
> 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.

Well hang in. Glad that you're making progress...

BAJ

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