Smart RF Packet sniffer with cc2540 usb dongle: driver problem

Gautham Kannan

Other Parts Discussed in Thread: CC2540, CC-DEBUGGER

Hello..

I have installed Smart RF Packet Sniffer version 2.16.3 and I have connected the cc2540 usb dongle and tried to see the Adv packets from Packet sniffer.

Once I loaded the Usb dongle with the packet sniffer hex file and when i clicked the start button for sniffing operation, it displays an error message stating

" FAILED TO SET DEBUGGER PROFILE"

"NOT ABLE TO START THE SNIFFER.

TRY TO UPGRADE USB FIRMWARE"

and after this error message, when I click the start button again, it displays an error message

" CONNECT TO EB DEVICE FAILED: CC DEBUGGER"

What is this problem?? Can anyone help?

My Smart RF Flash programmer displays the following

EB firmware ID: 05CC, EB Firmware rev: 0034

over 12 years ago

0 J Lindh over 12 years ago

TI__Guru 57865 points

Hi,

Make sure you select the device named "CC2540 USB Dongle" as shown in the picture:

If it's not listed, you need to program the CC2540 USB Dongle with correct firmware (possibly located at C:\Program Files (x86)\Texas Instruments\SmartRF Tools\Packet Sniffer\bin\general\firmware) called sniffer_fw_cc2540_usb.hex.

Read more about how to use packet sniffer here.

Best Regards

0 Gautham Kannan over 12 years ago in reply to J Lindh

Intellectual 580 points

Hi Nick....

I have already done what you exactly said.... I loaded the sniffer_fw_cc2540_usb.hex file into the usb dongle...

But I am not able to do the sniffing operation. I dont know the reason.

Please tell me a suggestion.

0 Gautham Kannan over 12 years ago in reply to Gautham Kannan

Intellectual 580 points

sorry Nick..

Now its working exactly.... Thanks a lot Nick....

0 Emocs over 9 years ago in reply to Gautham Kannan

Expert 1695 points

Hello,

Can anyone use this dongle: www.bluegiga.com/.../ in order to apply the 128kproject : processors.wiki.ti.com/.../128kproject
and to test read/write and to connect with Btool ??
Can I do this? Please let me know as soon as possible !
Thank you,

0 YiKai Chen over 9 years ago in reply to Emocs

Guru 735595 points

If I am not wrong, this BLED112 dongle doesn't use TI BLE chip. You can run TI BLE stack on it.

0 Emocs over 9 years ago in reply to YiKai Chen

Expert 1695 points

Dear Mr. Chen ,
Thank you for your reply. What do you mean? I would like to use this dongle in order to communicate with BTool! How can I do it ?

0 YiKai Chen over 9 years ago in reply to Emocs

Guru 735595 points

Do you mean To use Btool as BLE central and BLED112 as BLE Peripheral?

0 Emocs over 9 years ago in reply to YiKai Chen

Expert 1695 points

Thank you again for your message!
I have the BLE112 evaluation board (cc2540) and I program it using CC-Debugger and IAR Embedded Workbench. Now I execute the SImpleBLEPeripheral example from TI stack and I would like to apply ana example like this: processors.wiki.ti.com/.../128kproject
using also the dongle and the Btool or an example that I will be able to observe the Packet Sniffer through the dongle.
Could you please help me ? I am confused!

0 YiKai Chen over 9 years ago in reply to Emocs

Guru 735595 points

Btool cannot be use as Packet Sniffer. If you intend to run Packet Sniffer with CC2540 USB dongle, you have to download prebuilt sniffer FW sniffer_fw_cc2540_usb.hex under C:\Program Files (x86)\Texas Instruments\SmartRF Tools\Packet Sniffer\bin\general\firmware to your CC2540 USB dongle.

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