I am trying to get started on a project that interfaces a WiFly module (https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10822) with a PIC microcontroller (16F877). But I am really confused on how to get started with the WiFly. What (software/hardware) is needed to program the WiFly? Will I need to buy some sort of a programer to connect to my computer? Do I need to buy a WiFly shield? Sorry this is a broad question, but I can't seem to find any good starter tutorials out there.
Thanks
You need to install a software package TeraTerm which will connect to the module and access it in command mode. This tool is similar to the hyper terminal program which shipped with windows but it is the one provided by your Wifly manufacturer. The default settings to connect are 9600Kbps, 8 bits, No Parity, 1 stop bit.
Then you need to configure the device to your needs using certain commands. All commands are listed in http://dlnmh9ip6v2uc.cloudfront.net/datasheets/Wireless/WiFi/WiFly-RN-UM.pdf
The teraterm software and other resources can be found on http://rovingnetworks.com/resources/show/product:1
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I have read nearly all of the material on Microsoft's MSDN site, used Google (for the limited information that is out there) and also looked at the answers on here but I'm still confused on how to develop a NDIS driver.
My aim is to create a ndis driver so I can capture the network packets and decide whether I want to drop them (possibly inject as well) or allow them to pass.
From my research it would seem that I need to create an intermediate NIDS driver and after installing WDK (I'm using Visual Studio 2015 enterprise) I don't know where to begin (do I need to start with a KMDF project?).
Also, when I did load a KMDF driver project nearly all of the header files are getting highlighted by Intellisense as having errors (expected an identifier, NTSTATUS is underefined)?
Can anyone give some assistance on how to start please?
I have recently created a packet sniffer using the WinPcap library (and also used it to send packets) but there was a lot of information out there that helped me. Unfortunately, with NDIS it doesn't seem to be the same.
I can't seem to find the samples either
Okay, so a simple clean install of Visual Studio 2015 and WDK 10 is all that is needed to set up the environment for creating a driver.....
But then comes the deployment part
I am new to Lua. I have an ARM Cortex based product with an OS providing TCP stack, SD card for file storage, and lots of custom hardware. I have embedded Lua (from the standard source distribution) into the product and added an API to give Lua access to my hardware. Also have Telnet and FTP services running. Works great.
Now I would like to add the ability to debug scripts with ZeroBrane. Looks like I need to add MobDebug, and connect it to my OS thru LuaSockets. Assuming this is a valid approach, can anybody point to a tutorial or documentation that would help?
Thanks
Assuming you have access to luasocket on that platform, you can follow the instructions on remote debugging with MobDebug and ZeroBrane Studio. It should be a matter of adding require('mobdebug').start('IP-of-computer-running-ZeroBraneStudio') and making project files available in ZeroBrane Studio.
ZeroBrane Studio also does mapping between different file systems to allow debugging of scripts running on one platform from the IDE running on a (possibly) different platform. You only need to make sure you have the same project structure. For example, you may have /usr/me/myprojects/projectA/fileB.lua and start debugging of projectA/fileB.lua in /usr/me/myprojects/; then on the IDE side you may have D:\Users\Me\myprojects\projectA\fileB.lua opened in the IDE and it will attempt to map /usr/me/myprojects/ to D:\Users\Me\myprojects\. If you run into issues, you can use IRC or the maillist to get further help.
Back in the days of Delphi 7, remote debugging was mostly ok. You set up a TCP/IP connection, tweaked a few things in the linker and you could (just about) step through code running on another PC whilst keeping your Delphi IDE and its libraries on your development PC.
Today, with Delphi XE2,3,4 you have paserver which, at least at the moment can be flaky and slow. It is essential for iOS (cross platform) development, but here at Applied Relay Testing we often have to debug on embedded PC's that run recent Windows. To do this we have employed a number of strategies but the hardest situation of all is to visit a customer site and wish that one could 'drop in' a Delphi IDE + libraries and roll up ones sleeves to step through and set breakpoints in source code.
It is quite likely - hopefully - that the paserver remote debugging workflow and its incarnations will improve over time but for now I got to wondering how it might be possible to install Delphi + libraries + our source code on a USB key so that with only a minimal, perhaps automated setup, one could plug that key into a PC and be compiling, running and debugging fairly quickly.
I can see that the registry is one of the possible issues however I do remember that Embarcadero once talked about being able to run their apps from a USB key. Knowing how much of a pain it is to install my 20-odd libraries into Delphi though, it is not trivial and needs thinking about.
Has anyone done anything like this or have any ideas of how it might be done?
Delphi does not support what you are asking for. But what you could do is create a virtual machine with your OS, IDE, libraries etc installed in it, then copy the VM onto a USB drive, install the VM software on the customer system, and run your VM as-is. There are plenty of VM systems to choose from.
First, I need to get this out of the way: embedded PCs running Windows?? Sob.
Ok, now for a suggestion: if a full virtual machine isn't an option for this task, application-level virtualization may be. This intercepts registry calls and other application-level information and maps them to a local copy, allowing essentially any application to be turned into a portable version. The good news is that there are free versions of several programs that can turn Windows programs into virtualized apps.
The only one I've personally used is MojoPac, and found it delivered as promised although was very slow running off of a (old, very slow) flash drive.
http://lifehacker.com/309233/make-any-application-portable-with-mojopac-freedom
I haven't used this newer "freedom" version though.
Two other programs I've seen that appear to be popular are Cameyo:
http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/create-your-own-portable-virtual-version-any-windows-program.htm
and P-Apps,
http://dottech.org/26404/create-a-portable-version-of-any-software-with-p-apps/
but I can't vouch for the quality of either of these two.
Hope this helps.
I am a newbie to industry and as a part of my internship I have been assigned the above project.I have no experience in how to go about porting a particular application to a different OS.
So far,i have tried to understand the basic structure of a component(thats what an application is called IOS-XR) but as far as I can understand,porting wireshark will also require porting the libpcap lib to XR.
Can someone please shed some light as to how should i go about approaching it?
I know nothing about QNX;
However, I will note that Wireshark has a lot of dependencies on various libraries:
Some examples;
libgLib
libgtk
libffi-5
libfontconfig-1
libfreetype-6
libintl-8
libjasper-1
libjpeg-8
liblzma-5
libpixman-1-0
libpng15-15
libtiff-5
libxml2-2
...
Are these libraries available on QNX ?
With respect to libpcap:
libpcap is needed for capturing files. If not available, it certainly would need to be ported. I could imagine that this might be a large effort given that presumably the code is presumably quite dependent upon the exact OS capabilities to get access to the network level data.
For information about developing Wireshark (on Windows and *nix) see the
Wireshark Developer's Guide.
Hi
I am a noob trying to setup my computer so i can make a social networking website.
Sorry if its not kosher to ask here, but Hopefully one of you smart guys can help me.
I want to test some CMS (content management systems), firstly Elgg and then some others.
As far as ive read i can do this by using a virtual machine like VMware Player.
Now originally i wanted to try out Insoshi so i tried to use Cygwin and GitBash (also Putty tools) to download it (with no success). This involved me installing those programs and also trying to get an ssh environment variable working. So i gaveup on that (seeing that Elgg has more support anyhow i thought id try to try that). I uninstalled these programs, deleted leftover directories and deleted the added environment variable.
I also uninstalled DaemonTools (cos i thought it may be conflicting).
Im running Windows Vista 32bit and have always downloaded relevant installs for that system.
My problem is the VMware Player installer isn't doing anything. I launch it and it seems to hang straight away see pic
Am i missing something here?
Vmware page also suggests a virtual appliance (for cloud stuff) which i dont know much about yet. And i think that appliance is installed via the player else an image loader like Daemon Tools. Do i need this appliance first?
Why is the player not installing?
Ive tried both 3.14 and 3.13 build with same result?
I have about 4 gig of space left on my hd and have 3gig of ram.
I have looked at the programs installed on my computer and cant seem to find anything else that might conflict (but i am a n00b) and i also tried pausing my kapersky pure protection. Any help is severely appreciated, thanks.
As I recall there were a couple of conflicts with vmware
A quick look through the vmware forums I see:
visualsvn
virtualPC (no surprise)
nvidia 270.18 beta driver
avg
I also remember there being talk on the forums about a specific executable name which caused issues, but Im struggling to remember what it was.
start regedit.exe
Browse to the following sub-key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Zones\
You should see keys named 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4. In my case I had a folder named "L" before the 0.
Remove the key with "L" (actually it is "└", unicode #2514)
P.S. This is due to Microsoft screws up the registry Internet Zone settings in the registry. With the "└" key, it cause Javascript not to be called from an application.
Got it from here.