Oops, I may have originally posted this in the wrong location. Anyway, no joy:
Just got my new LaunchPad MSP430F5529 from TI. I can't even tell if Energia is talking to it (the built-in "out of box" LaunchPad demo app seems to work, and it does appear as a mass storage device in Windows.).
Connected to USB on a Dell PC, Windows XP. Drivers installed. System rebooted (several times).
Don't know what to set for serial port: the choices I'm offered are COM1 (which seems to maybe be a real, physical serial port) and COM3. Neither one works: when I try to upload any sketch, including