The next step was to burn some custom firmware. I followed the instruction on this site: http://www.esp8266.com/wiki/doku.php?id=toolchain

After downloading and compiling it (it was automatic and worked great) i tried to burn the blinky example. I connected CH_PD to VCC and GPIO2 and GPIO0 ended up floating. This was the way that worked for me to have the esptool program connect to the esp.

Next step is to burn the node-mcu firmware and test som Lua action!

http://www.whatimade.today/flashing-the-nodemcu-firmware-on-the-esp8266-linux-guide/

NOTE: se my next log if updating firmware does not work!