Works just fine with dev board. Our board - different story. Is there a max external osc. that may be used if you plan on using jtag? Ours has 48 Mhz, connected only to XTAL1 in the described manner. The eval board uses 12 Mhz, which is the only real diff.
I just set up the latest version, still doesn't work. We did some re-work on our board - lots of wires, and got past the comm failure message, so there is now some comm going on, but I don't think what we are sending is being received properly. Perhaps we need to re-lay out the board to get rid of noise... I will re-post a new thread when I know more.