On 3/8/2012 12:22 PM, Cathrine Hribar wrote: > > On Fri, 02 Mar 2012 23:14:03 -0500 > "Kent A. Reed"<knbr...@erols.com> wrote: >> 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 >>>> <...> >>> 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 > > Hi Kent: > > Thanks for the note. > > I am aware of the age of Windows 2000 as I used it in my business of computer > animation in S. W. Florida. That was up to 2005 before I retired. > > I agree it is a pain but sense I am retired and this is a hobby, I used what I > had on hand, as MPLAB listed the system software could be Windows 2000 or XP.
Hi, Bill. My wife and I are retired as well and fully understand the financial constraints. We choose to forgo many technology baubles in order to spend more in other pursuits, like staying involved in our grandkids' lives. My wife, for example, is still using a Sony laptop we bought when she was consulting a decade ago. She likes the full keyboard so much she doesn't want to buy a new laptop. We're running Windows 2000 on it because that's the latest version that has working drivers for it. > I put that Query on this web site about two weeks ago, asking if there was a > complier that would work for programming the dspic's, under Linux. One of the > fellows said that there was a compiler but it was a pain to get all the files, > in place, that was needed to use it under Linux.. Being the novice that I am, > not being a programmer, I thought it would be more of a challenge than I could > overcome with my limited knowledge. > > However, I think I will give it a try as I like the Linux operating system > much better that Windows. It reminds me of the Amiga operating system that I > use to use for model building, ray tracing, and animation recording. Oh, man, a Amiga user. You really were serious about animation work. I never had one but I drooled over the one my friend (also in video and animation work) had. I have neither the eye nor the temperament for graphics work. I envy those who do. > If I need some direction, are you willing to lend a bit of help once in a > while? I and the rest of the LinuxCNC crowd are always available to kibitz. Collectively, we know everything (and if it turns out we don't we can still sympathize with you!). What direction did you decide to go---MPLAB or MPLAB X? And in Linux directly or in Windows running as a virtual host in Linux? Of course, inquiring minds also want to know what you have in mind for those dspics. > Bill > Good luck. 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
