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Re: Using USB Tower with Alternative Firmware
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lugnet.robotics.rcx
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Thu, 22 Nov 2001 16:07:05 GMT
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"Ralph Hempel" <rhempel@bmts.com> writes:
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> The old tower plugged into a seraial port, and for some
> MAc users, a USB/Serial interface worked well. Now that
> the tower is native USB, what does the driver look like to
> a program running on the computer. Is it a serial port
> or does it need a special device driver?
Seems like it behaves like a file, no special magic needed
once you have the device driver installed (under Windows).
AFAIR from what I saw in the Lejos code the differences
to the old tower are slight, that there's no more need
to wake it up and it might not like being treated like
a serial device (baud rate setting, ...).
Under Linux I think it will be the same once a driver is
available (currently only receiving works), see
http://legousb.sourceforge.net .
Mac looks complicated, some OO code
(I've only looked a little into the NQC code).
Jürgen
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Jürgen Stuber <stuber@loria.fr>
http://www.loria.fr/~stuber/
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| Hi All, I have some questions about alternative firmware support for USB towers. As the author of pbForth, I'm getting lots of requests to integrate USB tower support into the package. The old tower plugged into a seraial port, and for some MAc (...) (23 years ago, 22-Nov-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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