On 3/2/2012 10:32 PM, Cathrine Hribar wrote: > > On Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:04:54 -0500 > Doug Goff<dg...@comporium.net> wrote: >> Bill, >> If you plan on using a Windows environment, then you can use Microchip's >> MPLAB PIC IDE and several different C compilers, all freeware. MPLABX >> is a new platform that is still a bit buggy, though usable. And it will >> run under Linux. I use the PICKit 3 to program PICs, no problem. I use >> it in a Windows environment because I also need to program FTDI chips >> (USB) and they don't offer a Linux version. I run all Windows within >> VirtualBox, so I don't have to transfer files around between systems. >> >> Google MPLAB and you should get the microchip site, or >> http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/mplab/X/ > Hi Doug: > > Thanks for the info... I just received the pickit 2 debug from microchip. > Have the latest v. of MPLAB. Problem is that my software system is Windows > 2000 with SP4. The pickit 2 software doesn't see the pickit 2 hardware pluged > into the USB port. I know the port works. > > thanks: > > Bill > > Bill:
You do know how old Windows 2000 is in technology-years? Microsoft terminated support two years ago. Sorry, I just had to get that out of my system :-) Did you have administrator privileges when you installed the driver? Without a functioning driver, Windows 2000 won't admit your pickit exists even if the port itself is electrically sound. Your smart drive test was necessary but not sufficient. It exercises a different driver. Were I in your shoes, I'd install MPLAB X IDE in Linux and drive on rather than arm-wrestle with W2K. To paraphrase what Admiral Farragut never exactly said, "Damn the bugs, full speed ahead." Regards, Kent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
