RE: problems installing piklab

You know that you are absolutly correct! With the amount of time and even 
cash that I have sunk into parts, hours and all in order to obtain a free 
programmer to get started with the PIC's, I could havce easily just bought 
any one of a number of commercial programmers and been well on my way by 
now. Alas, I have taken the hard way, as I find myself doing in many of my 
endevours. The last day or so I have found a couple of designs which are 
parallel port oriented, and am going to have a go at building one tonight, 
if it doesn't work I guess I will break down and buy one finally.

Also right that the version of Suse I am using is old, from last year. I 
have other recent copies of Mandrake, and Mandriva, but for some reason they 
just won't install on my laptop, and no monitors for any of the desktops! I 
recently recieved a copy of DSL linux in a zine, and am very interested in 
this as it is quoted as being able to boot from USB pen drives using a total 
of only 50MB, which isn't that small I guess in the embedded community. They 
also say that it can be booted right from in Windows, or another Linux, 
whatever, so that may be the way I go after I figure out how. Anyways, I am 
just using the Suse instal untill I get a bit better as it is comfortable to 
me as Linux can be to a beginner:)

As always, thanks!!


>From: "Chen Xiao Fan" <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: <[email protected]>
>Subject: RE: [gnupic] problems installing piklab
>Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 08:48:07 +0800
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jay Dagenais
> > Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 5:15 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [gnupic] problems installing piklab
> >
> > The first I  couldn't find  alone, it seemed to be a part
> > of a larger piece of software,  and the other  two were rather
> > large files which would have taken a long  time to download
> > wirelessly, so I didn't yet.
>
>I think you need much more than the 3 files. I do not know how
>you build the software and what you have installed for your
>Suse 9.2. I think you need  development version of QT and kdelibs
>and maybe some more things and they are big. I also guess Suse 9.2
>may be a bit old.
>
> > Am I right that the piklab is  the gnu equiv to  mplab? Thanks
> > in advance!
>
>I think there is no GNU equivalent to MPLAB yet. piklab/pikdev
>are nice IDEs which integrate gputils and support for some
>popular programmers. piklab also aims to add the support for
>ICD2 debugging for PIC 16F.
>
> > Oh yeah, one last problem here, I  am trying to  download firmware
> > into a PIC so I can build an ICD2, but am  having a hard
> > time with choosing a programmer to build for the loading of
> > the firmware into the PIC16F8xx. The main issue being that
> > I have only a  laptop running  right now, and have read that
> > the JDM versions do not work  the USB to RS232  converters
> > nor the power levels issued from the laptops  serial port even if
> > it did have one! Is there any work around for this one, or
> > should I be  choosing a different programmer for loading this one
> > chip!!?? Help?
>
>Do you have a programmer now? Have you tried it? If you have a
>JDM and it does not work with your labtop, try to get help from
>a friend who has a desktop. Even though reading is important, I
>think it is much more rewarding to try out things. And from
>the emails I have a feeeling that you will be better off **buying**
>a programmer (eg: Wisp628 or an ICD2 clone or a PICkit 2 or some
>others) rather than building your own. It will help you get started
>earlier. You do not need to know too much about PIC programmers
>before you enter the PIC world.
>
>Regards,
>Xiaofan
>
>
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