Program nRF9160DK inside of an ubuntu container on windows docker desktop

[Salvo]

Hi everyone, 

i wrote a dockerfile with all nedeed dependencies and toolchain setups for software development of nRF9160DK. I would link to use Visual Studio Code running on the docker container with nRF Connect extension.

Until now i'm able to create a sample project, modify and build it correctly without errors. The problem arises when i need to flash it to the board. So i install the SEGGER JLINK driver, then i use usbipd following the instruction available online. Until now i'm able to see the board inside visual studio code (bottom part of the extension) and with 'lsusb' i correctly see the SEGGER JLink USB device, but when i press the "Flash" button i get the following errors:

I'm wondering if it is possible or not to do the flashing procedure on windows host. 

Thanks in advance,

Salvo.

[Håkon Alseth]

Hi,

 

Q1: Did you have the segger jlink udev rules in place?

https://github.com/dorssel/usbipd-win/issues/96#issuecomment-992804504

 

Q2: Does nrfjprog work as intended in the shell?

for instance "nrfjprog --program /path/to/zephyr.hex --sectorerase -f nrf52 --verify"

  

Kind regards,

Håkon

[Salvo]

Yes i copied the rules, but the problem is that 

 service udev status

 returns that udev is not supported inside docker containers. Any suggestion to solve this issue?

[Håkon Alseth]

Can you interface the DK manually inside the container?

[Salvo]

Do you mean through the nrfjprog commands?

[Salvo]

I discover that even if i run a sample command i get errors:

root@52678d337f2f:~# nrfjprog -v
ERROR: An internal error has occurred, please try again.
NOTE: For additional output, try running again with logging enabled (--log).
NOTE: Any generated log error messages will be displayed

I'm currently installing JLink drivers with

RUN dpkg -i JLink_Linux_V763b_x86_64.deb 

and nrf command line tools with

RUN dpkg -i nrf-command-line-tools_10.15.3_amd64.deb 

 Am i doing this correctly?