Quoting Byron A Jeff : > On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 01:45:28PM -0400, Jai Dhar wrote: > > Hello > > > > So, first things, yes, I have a burner, so if you were to come up > with an iso (which would be awesome), then it would be no prob. > > > > > Now as for your suggestions. I can't do it on my other box because that > is > > pure FreeBSD as opposed to dual boot. > > You have FreeBSD? COOL! How would you like to join my newly formed > picprg2.3 > FreeBSD testing program? ;-) I would love to test for you!! I will tell you what... as soon as get this darn PIC working, I will test as much as you need me to, no problems. > > > Due to FreeBSD's wonderful > > non-resizable slices, I can't create room for a Win installation (which I > > would have otherwise)... > > No. picprg2.3 is designed to program PICs under Unix variants. It'll give > you > a whole new set of variables to test under. > > > so thats out of the question, or for use as a last resort. > > No problem. Offer's open though. > > > Switching to pin 11... since I made the cord myself, I will have to > > painstakingly test each wire for which one is pin 11, but I will try this > :-) > > Cool. > > > > > > As for trying the read with no PIC in... would using a pull-up resistor > >tied to a push button work for this? > > Sure. Just make sure that it's low valued enough that it can pull the input > D4 on the HCT573 below 0.8V. 150 ohms should do the trick. > > > I dont have the means necessary to do > >the jumper thing, but I could try a read and press the button randomly. I > >think this would accomplish something similar. > > > The jumper is simply a wire inserted between D7 and GND/+5. > > > With relation to everything else you mentioned, I verified while testing, > >and was as it should be. I am thinking the parport has a decent chance of > >being slightly messed up (since Iv done a lot of devel., and guaranteed > have > >done something wrong along the way with the parport).. which is why I wish > I > >could try it on the other computer. Hmm.. maybe I will pop out this HD and > >put it in the other. I dont think XP would like a K6 200 ;-) > > No. Bad idea. > > > I think the other computer is out for now. > > It isn't for picprg2.3. Let me take a virtual minute and see how port I/O > is > done under FreeBSD... Done. I see what you're talking about with ppi. It > should only take a hour or so to convert it. May be worth the effort. > As am I working on this stupid PIC, I dont have an hour to convert code... besides, I havent worked with anything BUT ppi, so I wouldnt know how to convert code... if thats what you were talking about. Do you know how to work fppdos.exe? Because I can just boot off a floppy on my other box and run it from there. So right now, what I am going to do is see if I Can get it working in dos with the other box.. I dont know how fppdos.exe command line works tho. There is a field for device and hardware, and I'm not sure what the convention is. The wierd thing is, I just trie ddoing a read, and it came up all 3FFF's. I then did an erase... and read agian, it was Blank? And now... very few times it reads 3FFF's, but most of the time, its just Blank. I have no clue what that means, you probably would have a better idea. I am going to just try and do a read with no PIC, taking a jumper wire between +5 and GND, see what that does. > > So I will try pin 11 in the meantime. I hope I dont have to resort to HVP > > since I liked the idea of a LVP in the first place :-) > > > As do I. But with so many problems, and the lack of solutions, it's a route > that we may have to embark on. > > > > THank you, > > Thank me when it works. Keep plugging. > > BAJ > > > > Jai > > On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 08:47:06PM -0400, Byron A Jeff wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 12:16:17PM -0400, Jai Dhar wrote: > > > > Ok, here are the results. [deleted for brevity] > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList > mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu > > ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu