CAN Jaguar Firmware Update Problems

[Joe Wilson]

Is anyone else having trouble using BDC-COMM to update the firmware of black jaguars?

Initial connection is fine, and we are able to assign a CAN id without problem, but when we go to update the firmware, it gets about 10% done and freezes, the jaguar light goes off and stays off.

We hunted around and found this solution:
1)
C:>bdc-comm-107.exe -c N

- replace the 'N' with the COM port number you are using

2)
# id X

- replace 'X' with the ID you had previously set for that Jaguar (factory default is 1)

3)
# update black-jag-v109.bin

which worked for one of the jaguars. So we repeated the process again in the bdc-comm gui on another jag, assigned id with no problems, tried to update the firmware. It froze again, so we tried the command line approach as above, only this time, the command-line version also froze during firmware update.

Any ideas? Is it possible to configure and update the jags through the roborio's browser-based configuration tool?

Thanks