MediaTek LinkIt™ Connect 7681 Developer's Guide
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4)
upload the firmware using
mt7681_uploader.exe
, setting
-f
to specify the firmware
generated in the previous step, and
-c
to identify the new COM port, as shown below:
> mt7681_uploader.exe -f out\sta\MT7681_sta_header.bin -c COM7
5)
successful upload of the firmware will result in the following being displayed:
Recovery Mode entered, Starting to upload...
138084/138084 bytes (100%) ... Update done! Bye
If this method fails, you can run the uploader using the Python script, as follows.
•
If you don’t have Python installed, get it from
the downloads section at python.org
and
install.
•
Open
cmd
(using the Cygwin shell might not work ) and execute
mt7681_uploader.py -f
out\sta\MT7681_sta_header.bin -c COM7
If the COM port is not shown in the PC’s
Device Manager
and an error message states
“FT230x
Basic UART driver not recognized”,
install the driver software from
Future Technology
Devices International Limited
.
Download the executable version corresponding to your OS from
the
Currently Supported VCP Drivers
list. After installation, the COM port will be correctly
identified in
Device Manager
.
For more details on using
mt7681_uploader.exe
see section 3.2, ‘Firmware uploader’.
2.4.3.2.
Uploading the firmware from Linux
To upload the firmware from a Linux computer:
1)
connect the LinkIt Connect 7681 development board to your computer using a USB cable,
as shown in Figure 17.
