Anonymous - 2001-10-01

Hi,
   I am just getting started with TInyOS. I wanted to Stimulate the TinyOS and get used to it.

  I download the source from two differnet links
1)http://tinyos.millennium.berkeley.edu/Getting_Started.htm
2) http://sourceforge.net/projects/tinyos/ using CVS

with version (1) i did the following

make clean;
make clean;
#DESC = apps/cnt_to_leds.desc
make -f MakefilePC
main 4

i got the following output
Y_offR_offG_offADC initialized.
Clock initialized
Y_on
tick:adc_tick: 1
R_offY_off
tick:adc_tick: 1
R_onY_on
tick:adc_tick: 1
R_onY_off
tick:adc_tick: 1
R_onY_on
tick:adc_tick: 1
R_onY_off

I guess i have stimualted it here..

however on the second version (2)
i did this     
make clean;
make clean;
#DESC = apps/cnt_to_leds.desc
make -f MakefilePC
main 4

I get NO output.. why is this happening

however if in version (2) if i uncomment the line
DESC = apps/chirp.desc
I get the following otuput

looking up host
done looking up base
connection #3
socket created.
connection failed  : -1 : 111
could not connect to connection manager.
CHIRP initialized
and the nothing happends..
can someone guide me as to what is happening.. what is the difference between the source code. What is the interger argument of main supposed to do?

This was done on a RedHat 7.1 Kernel 2.4.10 on a 2-processor i686    

I would be grateful id someone could help me on this and give links to some documents which will help me in getting started with TinyOS

Thanks
Pooja