Nano USB Programmer

An USB programmer for the Sensinode NanoRouter N600.

Installation

Linux

The installation is quite simple but requires the user to obtain the FTDI development library. The installation also requires root privileges in some phases (the ldconfig command to be more specific). Running the Nano_USB_Programmer executable might also require root privileges.

unpack the Nano_USB_Programmer-v[xxx].zip to a directory
get the FTDI development library from http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/D2XX/Linux/libftd2xx0.4.13.tar.gz
unpack the ftdi archive
copy the library static_lib/libftd2xx.a.[version] into /usr/lib
copy the library libftd2xx.so.[version] into /usr/lib
make a symbolic link to the library, for example: ln -s /usr/lib/libftd2xx.so.0.4.13 /usr/lib/libftd2xx.so
run ldconfig
copy the header files into the nano_usb_programmer/ftdi_linux/ directory
go to the programmer directory and run make

Windows/Cygwin

The FTDI library can be downloaded at:

http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/CDM/CDM%202.02.04%20WHQL%20Certified.zip

Copy header files (ftd2xx.h), ftd2xx.lib and ftd2xx.dll to nano_usb_programmer/ftdi_win32
Copy the ftd2xx.dll to your windows system32 directory

Usage

Usage info for the Nano_USB_Programmer is available with command ./nano_usb_programmer --help. Note that use might require root/administrator privileges depending on system configuration.

Known problems (Linux)

There's one known problem at the moment. The N600 must be unplugged and plugged in again after it has been programmed or the MAC address has been read from it before it can respond to the programmer again. The reason for this is the FTDI library is not perfectly integrated with the Linux serial driver.

README Version

v1.0 2007-11-14 Mikko Saarnivala Initial release v1.1 2007-11-15 Mikko Saarnivala A small error in the instructions fixed v1.2 2007-11-19 Mikko Saarnivala Added the FTDI CBUS2 value handling v1.3 2008-01-31 Martti Huttunen Multi-platform build and updated instructions

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