massive commit to get umass working, only significant known bug is that changes don...

[goodfet] / client / GoodFET.py

diff --git a/client/GoodFET.py b/client/GoodFET.py
index 11ca616..178ebd6 100755 (executable)
--- a/client/GoodFET.py
+++ b/client/GoodFET.py
@@ -198,6 +198,14 @@ class GoodFET:
                 elif attempts==2 and os.environ.get("board")!='telosb':
                     print "See the GoodFET FAQ about missing info flash.";
                     self.serialport.setTimeout(0.2);
+                elif attempts == 100:
+                   print "Tried 100 times to connect and failed."
+                   sys.stdout.write("Continuing to try forever.")      # No newline
+                   sys.stdout.flush()
+                   self.verbose=True   # Something isn't going right, give the user more info
+                elif attempts > 100 and attempts % 10 == 0:
+                   sys.stdout.write('.')
+                   sys.stdout.flush()
                 #self.serialport.flushInput()
                 #self.serialport.flushOutput()
                 
@@ -240,6 +248,8 @@ class GoodFET:
             #Here we have a connection, but maybe not a good one.
             #print "We have a connection."
             connected=1;
+           if attempts >= 100:
+               print ""        # Add a newline
             olds=self.infostring();
             clocking=self.monitorclocking();
             for foo in range(1,30):