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Re: NQC and RedHat linux 6 on laptop
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lugnet.robotics
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Mon, 14 Jan 2002 21:15:45 GMT
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Chris 'Xenon' Hanson wrote:
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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 run, a basically harmless problem. I
> can compile and download to the RCX just fine via the IR tower on the
> serial port (COM1).
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> I've since scraped together another old laptop, a 486/100 with 32Mb of RAM
> and a 750Mb hard drive, and installed Red Hat 6.1 on it and compiled NQC.
> It runs ok, no segfaulting here. Compiles go fine, but I am unable to get
> it to download. It fails to communicate with the IR tower. My laptop has
> an onboard trackball on COM1, so naturally I need to tell Nqc that the
> IR Tower is on a different serial port. RH 6 seems to determine the
> serial port is COM3 so I tell it to use /dev/ttyS03 on the command line.
Umm... COM3 is /dev/ttyS02, and COM4 is /dev/ttyS03. (Remember, COM*
starts at 1, ttyS* starts at 0). Could that be your problem?
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"Terminak #3 has bad keyboard. Pkease fix."
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Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: NQC and RedHat linux 6 on laptop
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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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| | NQC and RedHat linux 6 on laptop
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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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