Re: [Contiki-developers] Problems running Contiki 2.4 Demo for Atmel Raven and SICSlowpan under Windows Vista

[David K. <da...@em...>]

 Hi Rolf,

Vista and Windows7 send a flood of discovery packets that can hang the USB 
stick.  Unchecking all protocols on the interface other than ipv6 helps but 
they will still encapsulate some discovery packets within  ipv6.  I ended up 
using the advanced firewall to block them, but setting the interface to be 
public might do the same as they do less discovery on public interfaces. You 
can see those initial packets if you firewall everything before plugging in 
the stick, start wireshark, and then drop the firewall. The llmnr's are 
particularly bad!

Enabling debug PRINTFs can also be a problem as the jackdaw has only 8K of 
RAM and the transmission through USB requires polling of the CDC process. 
If you use core PRINTFs  you should redefine them to use program memory:
#define PRINTF(FORMAT,args...) printf_P(PSTR(FORMAT),##args)
and a RS232 output was recently added to the repository, using that doesn't 
affect the timing as much.

[Sorry if this is a repost, my mail server is acting up]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rolf Diermann" <Rol...@de...>
To: <con...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 3:13 PM
Subject: [Contiki-developers] Problems running Contiki 2.4 Demo for Atmel 
Raven and SICSlowpan under Windows Vista


> Hi All,
>
> I'm trying to run the basic demo under Windows Vista, but I cannot resolve 
> a problem with the RZRAVEN USB Stick (Jackdaw).
>
> I'm using the precompiled ELF files for Contiki 2.4 and everything works 
> fine under Windows XP (SP3). So the general procedure as described in 
> "Running Contiki with uIPv6 and SICSlowpan support on Atmel RAVEN 
> hardware"
>   http://www.sics.se/~adam/contiki/docs-uipv6/a01108.html
>   http://www.sics.se/~adam/contiki/docs-uipv6/a01107.html
>
> is not a problem.
>
> But with Windows Vista (required for us), I experience a problem which I 
> cannot resolve though experimenting for a few days now.
>
> I tested the problem on various Vista installations, including SP1, SP2, 
> and even Windows 7.
> For all Vista tests the problem is always the same: In "Network 
> Connections", the RZRaven USB is finally "disabled" and both the red and 
> blue LEDs on the RZRaven USB are continuously lighted. At the same time 
> the USB virtual Serial Port is also not usable. In the Vista device 
> manager everything is ok, no problem displayed, the hardware itself seems 
> to be perfectly recognized.
>
>
> The interesting thing is that for the very first installation there is NO 
> problem, I can even PING the other Raven boards, and I can use the virtual 
> serial port. Once I plug off and on the RZRaven USB (or e.g. turn off /on 
> the PC), it will not work any longer. Deinstallation and re-installation 
> seems to solve the problem, but again only for one single time.
>
> If I watch the Network connections after plugging in the RZRaven USB, then 
> I sometimes can watch the RZ Raven Network Device to be "enabled" but for 
> only very short time (may be a second). But afterwards the status always 
> switches to "Searching" which may take 60 seconds or more, the LEDs 
> blinking in some pattern, but finally ending up with red/blue continuos 
> and the network adapter status set to DISABLED. Afterwards I cannot even 
> use the virtual serial port (COM open fails).
>
> I found a hint in the tutorials to shorten two soldering pads on the back 
> of the RZ Raven USB, but this does not change anything. Also I have two RZ 
> Raven USB, so I can cross-check that this is not a problem with an 
> individual Jackdaw Device. Since it works with Vista after the very first 
> install, this seems to prove, that it is not a general Vista problem.
>
> While this seems to be more a Windows than a RZRaven USB problem, I wonder 
> why I cannot find any similar problem reports in the Internet or Contiki 
> Mailing list.
>
> Has anyone experienced and resolved a problem similar to this ?
> Any help appreciated.