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Re: Infra-Red
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lugnet.robotics
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Sat, 23 Mar 2002 10:21:03 GMT
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lego-robotics@crynwr.com (Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões) writes:
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> 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.
No, there aren't.
> The reason is that my laptop doesn't have a serial port. Lego says IR
> and USB<->Serial does not work... but I don't want to buy 2.0 to get the
> USB tower.
The USB tower doesn't work well with Linux for the moment.
> use a serial to usb conversor (it works?)
> buy a PCMCIA card with serial ports (does it works?)
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 converter check that it is supported.
Jürgen
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Jürgen Stuber <stuber@loria.fr>
http://www.loria.fr/~stuber/
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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. (...) (25 years ago, 23-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 22-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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