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RE: Infra-Red
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Sat, 23 Mar 2002 18:25:08 GMT
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Original-From:
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Nathan Nesbit <nathann@windows.microsoft.SAYNOTOSPAMcom>
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I remember seeing a web site which described how to convert a serial IR tower to
a USB one. Perhaps that would solve your problem.
-----Original Message-----
From: Schiedermeier Reinhard [mailto:rs@cs.fhm.edu]
Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 4:52 AM
To: Juergen Stuber
Cc: lego-robotics@crynwr.com
Subject: Re: Infra-Red
Juergen Stuber wrote:
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> > 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.
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.
Reinhard
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> Jürgen
>
> --
> Jürgen Stuber <stuber@loria.fr>
> http://www.loria.fr/~stuber/
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