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

[Gareth Roberts]

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