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Subject: 
Re: IR Tower not working when downloading firmware
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Sat, 11 Jan 2003 03:14:17 GMT
Original-From: 
Steve Baker <sjbaker1@NOSPAMairmail.net>
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Andrew J. Huang wrote:

> Wendy's problem is
most likely that she's not hitting the right
serial port.

The way to figure out which serial port on the back
of the PC corresponds to which COM port is to use the
world's cheapest piece of test equipment...the lowly
paperclip.

Bend your paperclip into a U shape - unplug all
the serial port devices from the back of the PC.

Touch the pins of the paperclip between pin 2 and 3
of one of the ports - and that port will echo every character
you send it...the other ports won't.

Check each 'COM' in turn - and you'll soon find which
COM corresponds to which physical socket.

Bear in mind that if you have a Modem card in your PC,
it may appear as COM3 or COM4 or something.

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  Re: IR Tower not working when downloading firmware
 
(...) Which physical pins are 2 and 3? I assume they would be the Tx and Rx pins, but I don't know where they are. Pretty cool - data going through a paperclip. (22 years ago, 11-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)

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  RE: IR Tower not working when downloading firmware
 
Wendy, Dick, I'm fighting the same issue on a RIS 1.5. I haven't resolved the problem yet but let me share what I've found. Character echo means only that you've connected to the IR tower. Using hyperterminal, I get perfect echoes, but I get them (...) (22 years ago, 10-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics)

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