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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 17:46:04 GMT
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In article <CAEBIOGHPFFJALBLJBEDGEBLDAAA.rhempel@bmts.com>,
<rhempel@bmts.com> wrote:
> 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 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?
>
> I guess I'll need to get a USB tower to test this out
> with too :-(
Here's where I'm at for NQC...
Windows - The Lego driver does a pretty good job of making the tower
look like a comm port but with a different name (\\.\LEGOTOWER1),
although I believe calls to set the baud rate/parity/etc fail.
MacOS 9 - no support yet, although Lego should be releasing a driver
soon (its the same driver used by Robolab). This won't look like a
serial port at all.
Mac OS X - no support from Lego. For NQC, I wrote application level
code that directly talks with the tower. After the configuration stuff
its pretty simple - interrupt transfers to and from the tower for the
data streams.
Linux - no NQC support yet. Apparently interrupt transfers aren't well
supported in Linux and since the Lego tower uses interrupt transfer (as
opposed to bulk transfer), this has made it a bit difficult to write a
driver or application code. Several people are looking at this, so
hopefully we'll have a Linux solution soon.
Dave
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reply to: dbaum at enteract dot com
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