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(...) As yet, me, re my Serial/IR Tower Green LED being stuck On, I know very little coherent & new. a) I did try searching for the word "green" in: (URL) results seemingly confirm that "everyone knows" the green LED should light only when used. b) (...) (22 years ago, 26-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Hi, my name is Paolo Gai, and I would like to inform you that we just published another firmware replacement for the Lego Mindstorms RCX. The software is written from scratch and distributed under the GPL license, and includes: - support for motors (...) (22 years ago, 26-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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(...) Any word on whether you have discovered that the power management settings of the OS have any effect on the geen light situation? I haven't had a chance to play with my serial tower on my XP desktop PC yet. John Hansen (22 years ago, 26-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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I doubt that this is the cause of your problems, but the first XP version had very flimsy drivers for some motherboards USB host controllers. Maybe a Windows Update or similar might help ? Philo www.philohome.com (...) (22 years ago, 23-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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Hi, I'm trying to get my USB tower to work with XP. So far I had no luck. I followed the instructions on www.mindstroms.com but it doesn't work. Windows XP simply sits there and reports the USB tower as an "unknown device". Doesn't matter if I (...) (22 years ago, 23-Feb-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)
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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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