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Hi all. I've been successfully using NQC on an old NEC 486/50 laptop with only 16MB of RAM for a while. The laptop was running muLinux, a very limited floppy-based distro. Everything worked ok, other than the fact that Nqc would segfault after each (...) (23 years ago, 14-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NQC and RedHat linux 6 on laptop
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(...) Umm... COM3 is /dev/ttyS02, and COM4 is /dev/ttyS03. (Remember, COM* starts at 1, ttyS* starts at 0). Could that be your problem? (23 years ago, 14-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I misspoke. In the BIOS it can be either COM2 or COM4 and it is set to COM4. I saw it listed in the RH6 startup as ttyS03, and misremembered it as COM3. It is COM4, I am using /dev/ttyS03. No go. Thanks for the suggestion, and sorry for the (...) (23 years ago, 14-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) I've seen this kind of problem before. The difficulty is that PC's only have two interrupt lines for the four possible serial ports. Generally, ttyS1 and ttyS3 share a line and ttyS2 and ttyS4 share the other. That means that by default, you (...) (23 years ago, 15-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: NQC and RedHat linux 6 on laptop
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I'm quoting my whole original message below with today's info added so that future searchers might stumble on all this info in one place. Chris 'Xenon' Hanson wrote: Hi all. I've been successfully using NQC on an old NEC 486/50 laptop with only (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jan-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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