[Tinyos-help] Can Radio Receive become "Stuck" ?

2006-06-21 Thread Ted Herman
Dear Radio Stack Experts (using moteiv distro, GenericComm interface): I've got a program that enters a curious behavior. Initially, for a few minutes, it sends and receives messages. Sending is driven by Timer events. Then it stops receiving messages, though it continues to send messages (the

Re: [Tinyos-help] Can Radio Receive become "Stuck" ?

2006-08-17 Thread Ted Herman
During the past eight weeks, when I had the time, I tried following Joe's and Phil's advice, but never solved the problem. Since I did make a serious effort, and have a current workaround, I figure it could be useful to tell the story. Immediately, I modified my application so that every Receive

Re: [Tinyos-help] Can Radio Receive become "Stuck" ?

2006-08-17 Thread Philip Levis
On Aug 17, 2006, at 2:19 PM, Ted Herman wrote: This is strange, why would some stray bug just hit rxbufptr? So, I tried moving rxbufptr and its fence around, duplicating rxbufptr, changing all usages of the idiom "rxbufptr->" to something else, and quite a few other strange and desperate hacks

Re: [Tinyos-help] Can Radio Receive become "Stuck" ?

2006-06-21 Thread Joe Polastre
Are you returning a valid message pointer in the Receive function or does the message pointer get corrupted? Using JTAG or investing the pointer status could help diagnose your problem. -Joe ps: You are welcome to write the SP glue components to run on Mica2 or MicaZ. We would certainly welcom

Re: [Tinyos-help] Can Radio Receive become "Stuck" ?

2006-06-21 Thread Philip Levis
On Jun 21, 2006, at 4:23 PM, Ted Herman wrote: Dear Radio Stack Experts (using moteiv distro, GenericComm interface): I've got a program that enters a curious behavior. Initially, for a few minutes, it sends and receives messages. Sending is driven by Timer events. Then it stops receiving