Hi,
I'm new to the MSP430 MCUs, LaunchPad boards, and Energia, but I have pretty good experience with the Arduino IDE and Atmel MCUs. I'm having some trouble getting started with Energia and my new LaunchPad (MSP-EXP430F5529LP).
I'm using an older MacBook running Mac OS X 10.6.8. I installed CDC drivers (MSP430LPCDC-1.0.3b) and Energia (0101E0010) as described at http://energia.nu/Guide_MacOSX.html. All seemed to go well.
When I plug in the board, I see a new device show up in Finder, with the Button1.txt, Button2.txt, ReadMe.txt, and MSP430_USB_LaunchPad.url files on it. Pressing button 1 sends "Hello World" to whatever app has focus at the time, and button 2 sends the ASCII art rocket image, so I think the board itself is working.
In Energia, I select Tools > Board > LaunchPad w/ msp430f5529 (25MHz). The "Serial Port" menu item is disabled, and I don't see any evidence of a new device showing up in /dev, but according to another recent post on this forum, "You can still program the board since it does not rely on the serial port for programming."
When I try to upload the Blink example, the upload fails with the message:
MSP430_GetNumberOfUsbIfs
No unused FET found.
Am I missing some critical step or doing something wrong?
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Joe P