Contiki, having a humble begining :)
This post is about getting started with application development over Contiki i.e. www.sics.se/contiki... Better use the release version which is latest one i.e. 2.5 rc1 in my case at the moment. Otherwise if you use development branch from CVS i.e. 2.x, than make sure you use it at your own risk :). I have the broadcast demo loosing packets for 2.x and it worked out of box for 2.4. Later got fixed in 2.5 rc1. Getting Contiki Download Contiki from http://www.sics.se/contiki/download.html . You can setup a CVS in parallel to the latest release, in a separate folder contiki-2.x. MSP430 tools are required for Contiki building and installing. Download the MSP430 tools here http://www.sics.se/contiki/install-and-compile.html . On this page they are located at http://www.sics.se/~adam/msp430-gcc/ If in any of the tools installation you get error of file over write error, I got this error when installing gcc for msp430, try using dpkg --install --force-all gcc