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Re: NQC, Mac OS X, and the USB IR Tower.
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:39:13 GMT
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Dave,
I did have the driver installed in OS 9. I shut down the classic
environment, and repeated my test. The program downloaded 100% of the time!
I haven't tried deleting the USB IR Tower driver preference file from the
OS 9 system yet.
I was using the alpha version of MacNQC 3.0. It includes USB support. As
I said the pattern of errors was about the same as the command line compiler
- successful download about 15-20% of the time. This error has also stopped
occurring now that classic is shut down, of course.
Thanks for everything!
B.
In lugnet.robotics, Dave Baum writes:
> In article <GnvGy0.733@lugnet.com>, "Brian C. Rakitin"
> <rakitin@mac.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Dave,
> > Thanks for responding. Your efforts have been outstanding!
> > I'm using a G4 Cube. The tower is connected to a 17" AGP monitor. I've
> > never used an earlier version of the system.
> > That's an interesting story. I was having mysterious ethernet problems
> > that were largely fixed only by moving from 9.1 to 10.1.1. I had to skip
> > 9.2.1 because I could not get the Lego USB IR Tower control panel that
> > came
> > with Robolab 2.5 to stop halting the boot process. (9.2.1 didn't solve
> > the
> > ethernet problem either.) That is what led me to try 10, abandon Robolab
> > (which I had to do anyway) and move to NQC. You might want to be careful
> > when you get the USB driver code for system 9.
> > Incidently MacNQC (another great effort. Thanks!) has the same issues
> > as
> > the command line compiler.
>
>
> I assume MacNQC won't work at all because it doesn't include USB tower
> support yet.
>
> Re 9.2.1 - I found the same problem when I moved from 9.1 to 9.2.1. The
> Lego driver was happy at 9.1 and hung during boot with 9.2.1. It would
> boot ok if you deleted its preference file, though.
>
> Do you still have the Lego driver installed in your Classic system
> folder used by 10.1.1? The reason I ask is that if Classic runs, it
> will probably try to claim any unclaimed USB devices. If you have the
> LEGO driver installed, it would definitely grab the USB device and NQC
> then couldn't access it. In fact, this will happen even if the control
> panel isn't installed but the USB driver portion is. Without the LEGO
> driver I assume the device still is "free" (but perhaps after getting an
> annoying warning from Classic about no driver for the device). Try
> tests with and without Classic running and see if that makes any
> difference. Just a guess, though.
>
> I'll try and think of other things that could be interfering.
>
> Dave
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| (...) I assume MacNQC won't work at all because it doesn't include USB tower support yet. Re 9.2.1 - I found the same problem when I moved from 9.1 to 9.2.1. The Lego driver was happy at 9.1 and hung during boot with 9.2.1. It would boot ok if you (...) (25 years ago, 6-Dec-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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