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Re: IR Tower and Hyperthreading
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 8 Jan 2004 03:56:48 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Jean-Henry Berevoescu <berevoescu@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Mike Thorn wrote:
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> > At 10:41 AM 1/6/2004, you wrote:
> >
> > > Here is what LEGO should be doing right now:
> > >
> > > 1) Putting something up on their website that acknowledges there is a
> > > problem, that they are working on it, and a planned target date for
> > > resolution.
> >
> >
> >
> > The problem is that they never promised to support XP. The only thing listed is 98/ME. In fact, they explicitly say 2K and NT are _not_ supported.
> >
> > > In the meantime, those of you having problems could try disabling
> > > Hyperthreading in the BIOS, which should effectively disable it in
> > > Windows XP.
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> >
> >
> > Everywhere this is mentioned, someone says you have to reinstall windows after doing this...is that true?
> >
> > Thanks for the help, it's really appreciated!
> >
> > ~Mike
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> Hi,
> I had the same problem with an XP on a <3GHz >2GHz machine.
> The single sane sollution I had was to use the serial IR Tower from
> my Mindstorms 1.0. The bet I took was the IR protocol between the
> IR Tower and the Brick didn't change. And it seems that it didn't.
> It is slower (is a serial connection) and one has to have the previous
> Mindstorms 1.0 version, but it is an option.
>
> BTW: I'm a Linux guy and I'd prefer to work with it on my favorite platform.
> Is there a place I can get tools to do it (compilers, drivers for the IR
> interface
> or whatever else is needed)?
>
> Jean
It’s fairly straightforward to get your development environment setup on Linux.
The homepage for the brickos project has documentation but only for debian
systems. I use debian but I prefer to use the cvs version rather than the
somewhat out of date binaries. The documentation for setting up your
environment for other flavors of Linux is scattered but I found the following
webpage to have the most helpful information:
http://www.cs.utah.edu/~zxshen/BrickOS-Cyclone/INSTALL.html
The driver for the usb tower, http://legousb.sourceforge.net, was recently
submitted to be added to the kernel tree of 2.6.1
http://lwn.net/Articles/64778/.
I use a patched 2.4.23 kernel.
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| Mike Thorn wrote: > At 10:41 AM 1/6/2004, you wrote: > >> Here is what LEGO should be doing right now: >> >> 1) Putting something up on their website that acknowledges there is a >> problem, that they are working on it, and a planned target date for (...) (21 years ago, 7-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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