Re: [Paparazzi-devel] trouble getting started...

[Felix Ruess]

Also a word of caution about the live CDs. They are pretty old and out
of date, especially for the end user the configuration of the airframe
has changed quite a bit since then (all for the better of course ;-).
But otherwise you can of course still use them to check it out.
Of course if someone wants to make a more up to date live CD that
would be welcome :-D

Cheers, Felix

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 1:21 AM, Gareth Roberts
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi James,
>
> Chris, I don't think there is an OSS version of Virtualbox for OSX, it's
> amazing how much we take for granted in the linux world...
>
> I've got a Macbook, but for serious work I have a Linux partition I boot
> into.  Virtualbox can be weird about USB, especially under OS-X where no-one
> is really sure how things work (personally on my Snow Leopard late 2010
> Macbook I've NEVER got a USB device to work under closed source VirtualBox).
>
> Does the live CD say anything if you type
> dmesg
> into a command window?
>
> You probably know this, but you've left it quite late in your project to
> sort this out - if you want a reasonable chance of flying you'll need to get
> this working ASAP.  The serial port trick means that at least your HW is
> fine though.
>
> Did you install the udev rules into the live cd (you didn't specify which
> one)?
>
> --G
>
>
>
> On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 23:40:52 -0000, James Spezeski
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone, I'm trying to use Paparazzi for a University design project,
>> but I'm having serious problems getting started.  I'm using an OSX host
>> machine with a Ubuntu virtual machine.
>>
>> For the Tiny 0.99, I used a USB <-> Serial converter and an LPC programmer
>> which was plugged into the serial port.  I tried programming it in USB
>> mode
>> and serial mode and they both failed (no USB device found).  I did manage
>> to
>> program it by connecting the the converter and creating a socket on the
>> host
>> machine, then using that socket as a serial port on the guest machine and
>> programming it in serial mode, but I'm not sure why this worked and the
>> other approach didn't.
>>
>> I also tried programming the TWOG with a cable I bought on PPZUAV, but the
>> host and guest machines both failed to even recognize that something was
>> plugged in.  I believe the bootloader is already installed, and the LED
>> flashes when I connect power.  I even tried booting from the live CD and I
>> had the same problem.
>>
>> I've been stuck here for a couple months, so I would really appreciate any
>> help.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>  James
>
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