Good to know. FYI, I've attached the EZ430-RF board to the $20 EZ430
USB device and gdbproxy ID's it just fine. If you want the Tx/Rx pins
from the RF board then any serial device can get you that by
connecting GND and the two outside pins on the RF board. The middle 4
pins of the RF board are SPI-by-Wire and mate to the $20 EZ430 USB
dongle for debugging and programming.

Doug
--- In m...@yahoogroups.com, Travis Goodspeed wrote:
>
> Howdy y'all,
>
> I've succeeded in getting the red EZ430 board--that which ships as part
> of the RF kits--to work under Linux. To do so requires flashing both
> the 24c32 EEPROM and the MSP430f161 of the board with the firmware of
> their green-board equivalents.
>
> Flashing only the EEPROM results in a device which works with the
> present TUSB3410 kernel driver, but which is incompatible with
> gdbproxy. This implies that more than TTY driver issues must be fixed
> to make a red board work out of the box.
>
> The articles below describe the process. They might also be of interest
> to those of your who've bricked your EZ430 during a firmware upgrade, as
> well as to those who wish to write replacement firmware for the device
> from scratch.
>
> MSP430 instructions
>
http://travisgoodspeed.blogspot.com/2008/05/repurposing-ti-ez430u-part-1.html
> EEPROM instructions
>
http://travisgoodspeed.blogspot.com/2008/07/repurposing-ti-ez430u-part-2.html
>
> Cheers,
> --Travis Goodspeed
>

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