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Re: IR tower problems on a laptop with NQC
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Sat, 10 Mar 2007 17:41:42 GMT
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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 port attached to the hard drive slot cover is disabled in the BIOS, so it shouldn’t be an issue. (I hope!)



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  Re: IR tower problems on a laptop with NQC
 
(...) Does the green light in the tower come on at all when you try to send the message? Is the light only on when you are trying to communicate? If the light is always one I would look for another application that is trying to use the serial port. (...) (17 years ago, 12-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX)

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  Re: IR tower problems on a laptop with NQC
 
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 (...) (17 years ago, 10-Mar-07, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX)

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