 | | Infra-Red —Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões
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| | | Hi! I've read this mailing list homepage, but I can't figure if there any good chances to make my RCX from 1.5 to work directly with the IR dispositive from the laptop. The reason is that my laptop doesn't have a serial port. Lego says IR and (...) (23 years ago, 22-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: Infra-Red —Rob Hendrix
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| | | | | Lego Dacta sells a usb IR tower. You can also get one if you purchase Mindstorms 2.0 set. Mindstorms 2.0 software upgrade is available from Lego (or was when I bought mine). You will have to have the software upgrade to make the usb IR tower work. (...) (23 years ago, 22-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | Re: Infra-Red —Dave Astolfo
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| | | | | | (...) I have a Xircom USB to Serial adapter (DB9) and it works fine with the RIS 1.0/1.5 Serial Tower. (...) (23 years ago, 23-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Infra-Red —Jeff McClain
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| | | | | | (...) Does it work with Windows XP (the USB->Serial adapter and the 1.5 Tower)? I've had 2 USB->Serial port adapters not work under XP now...sigh. Thanks, -JM (23 years ago, 20-May-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | Re: Infra-Red —Juergen Stuber
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| | | | (...) No, there aren't. (...) The USB tower doesn't work well with Linux for the moment. (...) I've no experience, but I think both should work. A PCMCIA card should be easy to set up (from the computer side it should look like a modem), for the USB (...) (23 years ago, 23-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | | | | | Re: Infra-Red —Schiedermeier Reinhard
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| | | | (...) I think this is not entirely true: Depending on your USB controller it may work quite well. I have used USB-towers with Linux 2.4.16, NQC 2.4.r2 in a class last week. They ran for 6 whole days on 12 machines without any significant problems. (...) (23 years ago, 23-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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