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Problems with FET430UIF driver in VMWare Player

Tadd Seiff
Prodigy 30 points


Hi all,

I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 AMD64 native, and Windows 7 x64 in a VMWare Player virtual machine.  I cannot get the FET430 usb dirver to install.  My goal is to get the EZ430-Chronos dev environment up and running.  Win7 in the VM just will not even recognize the device.

A bit of history: 

-Installed CCE4 from disc bundled with Chronos.  No luck.

-Installed IAR 4.21 from disc just incase the drivers were newer: No luck.

-Realized the WIN7 drivers are a recent edition, downloaded most recent (tonight) IAR kickstart from TI.com, installed from a .exe called FET-R600.  Ended up with IAR 5.10 installed.  No luck on the auto-device install.  Tried pointing windows to the explicit directory C:\Program Files(x86)\IAR\..\drivers\Win7_64.  No luck.

Notes:

The VMWare tools can at least get the name of the device from the FET, it shows up as the right device in VMWare tools, but Windows 7 itself just cannot see that it is anything besides and UNKNOWN DEVICE.

Anyone else having problems like this?  Or, better yet, has anyone successfully set up the EZ430 toolchain in a Virtual Machine?  Thanks.

 

 

  • 0
    Guru 17650 points

    Hi Tadd,

    I'm using CCS V4.1.x on my MAC running a virtual Win XP in VMWare Fusion. I've also tested the tools (IAR and CCS) in a virtual machine running Win7. I never had any problems; anything worked out of the box.

    Did you install the VMWare tools already? If not, pls install them since you will need 'em.

    When you connect any other USB device to the virtual machine will it show up or does ubuntu has the controls of it by default?

    Kind regards
    aBUGSworstnightmare

  • 0 in reply to Joerg Quinten
    Prodigy 30 points

    Bugs,

    The tools are installed and up-to-date.  Like I mentioned, the tools menu actually sees the device as a 430FET.  I have used other USB devices no problem in the VM, including debugging an 8051 over a USB-serial adapter, using mass-storage devices, and also using the Chronos RF access point with the demo software, all no problem.  It's just this debug interface so far.

    Thanks for the input though, about it working for you.  I will open an issue with VMWare I suppose.

    You mentioned you are using Fusion.  I'm not familiar with it.  I am using the free player, does it make sense that this device is too much to use in the "free" version of VMWare?

     

    Thanks. -tadd

  • 0 in reply to Tadd Seiff
    Guru 17650 points

    Hi Tadd,

    Fusion (for MAC) is the same as VMware (for Windows), but as far as I know the free VMware Player has not limitations!

    I'm sorry, but since I don't have access to a chronos dev. kit I will not be able to test it using VMware (pls note: eZ430-F2013 and eZ430-F2500 worked fine too; so the CHRONOS USB part - which differs from eZ430-RF2500 (USB part) only in case of firmware - should work fine too).

    Did you test the tool on a PC running native Windows?

    Rgds
    aBUGSworstnightmare

  • 0 in reply to Joerg Quinten
    Prodigy 30 points

    BUGS,

    Thanks for your attention.  I don't think I am going to be able to solve this one to easily, since it really should "just work".  For the sake of giving other readers, who may have some info, the whole story:

    aBUGSworstnightmare said:
    Did you test the tool on a PC running native Windows?

    Yes, I built up an XP machine for this job, all the hardware works great, the tool itself is not faulty.

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