User Manual

If you are using an older version of Ubuntu or if ' dfu-util -v ' displays an older version like 0.5 you will need to buid dfu-

util from source, as described below.

Building dfu-util From Source (Ubuntu 14.04 etc.)

Ubuntu 14.04 and several other distributions use dfu-util 0.5 which is too old for the WICED Feather (which requires

dfu-util version 0.8 or higher).

To build dfu-util from source run the following commands (Ubuntu 14.04 is assumed here), first install the required build

dependencies:

Then download the git repo containing the dfu-util source:

Then build the dfu-util from source:

You can then install and verify dfu-util via the following commands, which should show version 0.8 or 0.9 for dfu-util:

Testing the Installation

You can check if dfu-util was installed correctly by running the following command with the WICED Feather connected:

This should give you the following output:

$ sudo apt-get install dfu-util

$ sudo apt-get install git

$ sudo apt-get build-dep dfu-util

$ sudo apt-get install libusb-1.0-0-dev

$ git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/dfu-util/dfu-util

$ cd dfu-util

$ ./autogen.sh

$ ./configure # on most systems

$ make

$ sudo make install

$ hash -r

$ dfu-util -V

$ dfu-util --list