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Re: IR tower problems on a laptop with NQC
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lugnet.robotics.rcx
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Sat, 10 Mar 2007 05:14:52 GMT
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I feel kind of dumb: the serial port was disabled in the BIOS. However, now that
it is enabled and is assigned COM1 (and shows up in Device Manager under Ports),
I’m still having problems:
C:\nqc>nqc -SCOM1 -v -d test.nqc
Downloading Program:Tx: 55 ff 00 10 ef 10 ef
Rx: ff
Retrying...
Tx: 55 ff 00 10 ef 10 ef
Rx:
error
Problem talking to IR device
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Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: IR tower problems on a laptop with NQC
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| I also figured out what COM3 was: the internal modem. I disabled it in Device Manager and now the only port that I can find in my C# app or in Hyperterminal is COM1, the serial port. But the IR tower is still not working. By the way, the built-in IR (...) (18 years ago, 10-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX)
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| | Re: IR tower problems on a laptop with NQC
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| The light goes on as soon as you plug in the tower? Sounds like someone is already using COM3. I was looking around DELL technical support and you may have a bit of work ahead of you. First off your serial port on the inspiron 8200 should be COM1. I (...) (18 years ago, 9-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX)
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