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In summary, I think now we say: Anyone interested enough to go see if their Win XP experience matches with/ differs from mine? Me, I've been reporting Yes Yes Yes in reply to the Three point quiz: Q1) Does your serial/IR tower green light shine (...) (22 years ago, 23-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) That the light stays on during Windows Suspend suggests to me that it has something to do with the power management features of your laptop. Try temporarily turning off the power management option and see if the tower behaves differently. I (...) (22 years ago, 22-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Just yesterday I reinstalled my serial IR Tower on a Win 98 machine and had the green light stay on all the time. It turned out to be an issue of 'port confusion'. When I switched ports (put the tower on COM1 and the other device on COM2) the (...) (22 years ago, 22-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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I have a nasty feeling this a "facility" in windows at work here. I have noted that the "classic" ports (serial i/o and parallel) "jabber" when windows doesn't think they are in use. My suspicion is that there is some kind of a legacy port plug and (...) (22 years ago, 21-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) If your green light is on all the time I am amazed that you are successful with any communication. Do you need to do the "open the port and wait 5 seconds" procedure to get RIS, javax.comm, and nqc to work? Something BIOS or hardware-related (...) (22 years ago, 21-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) By now I have two more clues: 1) Not only does powering down the PC or booting Linux turn the light Off, but so likewise does a Windows Hibernate. 2) Leaving the port open and unused turns the light Off only until I try a Windows Suspend. (...) (22 years ago, 21-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Again intriguing, again I thank you. /// BricxCC Without Firmware /// (...) Yes, does BricxCC COM1 fail for anyone else when firmware is erased? Anyone? /// Versions /// BricxCC Help About tells me I have "3.3.7.2" of "2/12/2003". Bundled with (...) (22 years ago, 21-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) You are welcome. I'm still a bit muddled as to your current situation re BricxCC and your RIS with or without the firmware installed. (...) If the port is in use NQC always reports, in my case, the following message: Could not open serial port (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Wow, key tips, great questions, fun links, thanks again for leading me into hours of enlightening experimentation. As a newbie, I'm surprised to think I see nqc reports port in use by exiting immediately without complaint, and BricxCC reports (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Which COM port is RIS using? Can you describe exactly what BricxCC says/does when you try to get it to find your brick? Does the tower light come on at all? As was suggested already, try choosing the same COM port that RIS uses rather than (...) (22 years ago, 18-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Did you try to fix communication port instead of using automatic configuration ? On my machine (Win2000) where I have both a serial Spybotics cable and a RIS USB tower, I have to specify the port that BricxCC must use. Philo www.philohome.com (22 years ago, 18-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Pat For what its worth, BricxCC (latest version) works 100% fine with my Win XP setup. I am however using it with a Spybot and the included serial cable. Good luck with it Regards Philip "Pat LaVarre" <ppaatt@aol.com> wrote in message (...) (22 years ago, 18-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Is there some trick I need to learn to run BricxCC on Win XP? (...) For me BricxCC hardly ever works. I tried un/installing the last three available versions. Always I fail to connect via serial via IR with my brick. Lego RIS talks no worries, (...) (22 years ago, 18-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Re: How could I tell if I'd cooked the motor controllers ?
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I presume you did all the usual things: Clean the RCX terminals, try other motors, check for unusual friction in the drivetrain (like, something is out of adjustment) ...etc? Jerry (...) (22 years ago, 15-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Use a powered USB hub with the laptop. The power required for the USB IR Tower will come from the powered hub, rather than the laptop. - Rob (...) (22 years ago, 15-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) No idea. I think these values are used for accounting, to ensure that all devices together don't exceed available power. But I don't know how well this is implemented. (...) Linux makes them available in readable form in /proc/bus/usb/devices (...) (22 years ago, 14-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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We had an informal Robo-Sumo thing at my work place tonight and I'm wondering if I killed my RCX. My 'bot had two gearmotors on A and two more on C to drive the wheels. Could they have drawn enough current when the 'bot was stalled to harm the RCX ? (...) (22 years ago, 14-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Hello, I was too sure that I could manage to program this small and simple robot in Mindstorm 2.0, but have to stop it beacuse it got too complicated. Now I'm reading "Learn yourself C in 21 days" and the "NQC guide" and "NQC Tutorial", hope I can (...) (22 years ago, 13-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Fascinating stuff, thanks again. In particular, I didn't know Anyone had persuaded Windows to respond intelligently to Usb Configuration's of variable power. Anybody know if these descriptors already appear on the web somewhere? Else please (...) (22 years ago, 13-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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| | Interactive C and USB tower ?
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Does anyone knows a way to use IC4 with an USB tower ? TIA Philo www.philohome.com (22 years ago, 13-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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