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Re: Temporary solution for W2000, but not Notebook
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Fri, 1 Sep 2000 06:59:54 GMT
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Hi,
I am assisting a Robotics course with the venerable HandyBoard, and have
been having the same problem with the Toshiba, and ThinkPad laptops. With
Toshiba though, there is no infrared as far as I can tell, and I can run and
load the inital pcode with HBDL, through the only port, which is COM1. But
when it comes to IC, I get an error saying
' Synchronizing with the board '
' Board Not Responding '
One of my students brought a ThinkPad, and we couldn't get that to work
either, now I know why..
Any input about the Toshiba is appreciated though..
Cenk Uyan
Arizona State University
Computer Science Dept.
> From: "Steve Mosiman" <drsem@loras.edu>
> To: lugnet.robotics.handyboard@lugnet.com
> Subject: Temporary solution for W2000, but not Notebook
> Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 16:59:43 GMT
>
> This is essentially a status report telling what I've come up with as a
> partial solution to to running the Handy Board in our new environment. I
> have
> not succeeded in getting IC to run under Windows2000 DOS. The labs now
> have
> machines with 120 MB super floppy drives. I give students a Windows 95
> super
> floppy boot disk with IC & dl on it (as well as software to connect to the
> network). They can't execute off of the hard disk or network, but they can
> store work on the network as well as the super floppy. The bottom line is,
> I
> can't get IC to work with W2K, so we go to W95.
>
> I haven't been even that successful with the thinkpad notebook computers.
> When I boot off the W95 floppy, the software complains that it can't find
> com2. The tech center said that the thinkpad uses 3F8 and IRQ4 for com2
> which
> is not conventional. I changed the notebook to disable the infrared port
> (which normally uses 2F8 and IRQ3) and set com2 to that address and
> interrupt. The software quit complaining about not being able to find
> com2,
> but now claims that the handy board is disconnected and can't communicate
> with
> it.
>
> If anyone has any good suggestions, I am still open to them, but I am not
> optimistic. Worse yet for me is that next year the students will all have
> notebooks so neither the students nor I will be able to run the software
> unless I find a way out of this problem.
>
> Steve Mosiman
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