Need Help with Wiiload and USB Gecko

I'm trying to send a test elf to the wii via Gecko using wiiload. I am having no luck, I set the environment variables (WIILOAD=COM4 and I tried COM8 amongst others). And I just get the same output like i never set it to begin with, I even wrote a simple program, that emulates wiiload's source code to see if its getting the WIILOAD environment variable and it is.

I got the latest version of Homebrew channel installed, and the latest version of Gecko OS. my USB Gecko is in slot B, and according to both Gecko OS and Homebrew channel, its can see it, I installed the drivers on my winxp(i386) machine just fine and tried both VCP and non VCP.

Any advice to get this going?

Thanks in advance.

Hmm... double check the COM drivers were installed after checking VCP.
The mode needs to be VCP, and you should be able find the correct COM port from device manager, too.

After checking that, and setting Wiiload to whatever the actual COM port is, reboot.
For me at least, XP doesn't register environmental variable changes until after a restart.
Could be that, but your program would suggest otherwise.

Try compiling the example and using the makefile to run wiiload.

Beyond that, I think I'm of little help.

ok looking at it I'm set to COM6, set WIILOAD=COM6 and still nada.

which example should I compile?

Rebooted too?
Just the template from the examples folder. (devkitPro\examples\wii\template)