 | | Any substitute to the default lego serial cable! —Laurence K.W. Yip
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| | | Hi, all! I've just bought and got a IR serial tower from bricklink but I haven't a default lego serial cable. Originally, I think ordinary RS-232 DB-9F to DB-9F cable can be used instead, but I fail to do the firmware downloading under Win98 RIS UI (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | | | | Re: Any substitute to the default lego serial cable! —Paul Andrews
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| | | | The cable is wired as a null modem cable (see (URL) If that's what you have, then it should work. A couple of other questions: 1. When you try to download the firmware does the green light on the tower come on? 2. Have you set RCXTTY to the correct (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | | | | | Re: Any substitute to the default lego serial cable! —Laurence K.W. Yip
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| | | | Hi! Paul, | |Thanks for your help first. I didnt' test it using lejos! I just used |the default LEGO RIS UI in win98 to try to download the lego default firmware |to RCX brick! |When the dialog box under the hardware setting option informed me the (...) (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | | | | | Re: Any substitute to the default lego serial cable! —Paul Andrews
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| | | | (...) Its a universal cable. Just about any null modem cable would do, but not all cables are null modem. Try using lejosfirmdl and see what it says. (...) That's right. (22 years ago, 24-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | | | | | Re: Any substitute to the default lego serial cable! —Laurence K.W. Yip
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| | | | Hi! all, Thanks for the replies, now I can use one null-modem cable with 2 DB-adapters to construct the cable for the RCX communicatoin. But the cost is about US$5.5. If the shipping fees to HK were not so high, I would perfer to buy the default (...) (22 years ago, 25-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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