gnupic: Thread: any of this programmers

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There are three cheap programmers offered in the local e-bay (here in Buenos 
Aires, Argentina) that is called www.mercadolibre.com.ar, do you know if any 
of them might work with Linux ?
http://www.mercadolibre.com.ar/jm/item?site=MLA&id=10849226
http://www.mercadolibre.com.ar/jm/item?site=MLA&id=10750461
http://www.mercadolibre.com.ar/jm/item?site=MLA&id=10740510
Unfortunatly, the descriptions are in spanish, but being that there are very 
smart and wise people here, I wonder if you recognize any of them but some 
aspects of the description or by the pictures and know about it ?
Thank you and sorry to disturb you so much with all this mails, but it's 
really hard to get anything here, I don't have much resources and the fact 
that I refuse to feed Microsoft's owners (by using Linux), makes it even 
hard.
Thanks.
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Pupeno: ####@####.####
http://www.pupeno.com
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I don't recognise any of them, sorry.  I don't know what your local
currency is down there, but if that's USD the prices are terrible.  So
it must be local, I guess.

I see your requests for Linux support in the feedback to vendor section.
You could offer to test them out for them and tell them how well they
are supported on Linux.

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James Cameron    ####@####.####     http://quozl.netrek.org/

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On Tuesday 24 February 2004 22:58, James Cameron wrote:
> I don't recognise any of them, sorry.  I don't know what your local
> currency is down there, but if that's USD the prices are terrible.  So
> it must be local, I guess.
They are pesos, about one third of dolars.

> I see your requests for Linux support in the feedback to vendor section.
> You could offer to test them out for them and tell them how well they
> are supported on Linux.
I offered to one of them, he told me knows there's a program to record some 
EEPROMs memories and some BIOSes or something like that, but he didn't know 
about PIC...
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Pupeno: ####@####.####
http://www.pupeno.com
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On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Pupeno wrote:
> There are three cheap programmers offered in the local e-bay (here in Buenos
> Aires, Argentina) that is called www.mercadolibre.com.ar, do you know if any
> of them might work with Linux ?
> http://www.mercadolibre.com.ar/jm/item?site=MLA&id=10849226
> http://www.mercadolibre.com.ar/jm/item?site=MLA&id=10750461
> http://www.mercadolibre.com.ar/jm/item?site=MLA&id=10740510
> Unfortunatly, the descriptions are in spanish, but being that there are very
> smart and wise people here, I wonder if you recognize any of them but some
> aspects of the description or by the pictures and know about it ?
> Thank you and sorry to disturb you so much with all this mails, but it's
> really hard to get anything here, I don't have much resources and the fact
> that I refuse to feed Microsoft's owners (by using Linux), makes it even
> hard.

I speak Spanish, so I read (skimmed, really) the descriptions for the
three. Without seeing the actual circuit diagram (or the PCB layout), it's
hard to say whether it would work with existing Linux programs or not. I
think most of the linux-based parallel port programmer software allows you
to set which parallel port pin controls the proramming high voltage, data,
clock, etc. So if these boards have those signals controlled directly by
pins on the parallel port connector, then you could probably make them
work.

If all you want to do is program pics, though, maybe it'd be better to
build a programmer yourself. Or at least compare the cost of parts to
build your own to the cost of the pre-built options you listed. Those
boards do lots of stuff that wouldn't be valuable to me (programming
eproms etc). If the board costs much more than what it would take (time
and parts) to build your own, then think about whether that extra
functionality is important enough to you to justify the additional cost.

Greg