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Subject:	Re: Any substitute to the default lego serial cable!
Newsgroups:	lugnet.robotics.rcx.java
Date:	Wed, 24 Jul 2002 17:38:57 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics.rcx.java, Laurence K.W. Yip writes: > Hi! Paul, > |... > |More, sorry for a stupid question but I'd like to ask is 'null modem cable' ?= > > |'laplink cable', will their pin assignments be equal or not? > Is the pin assignment indicated in the RCX internal universal or just > specified for lego serial tower? 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. > |Finally, I'm interested in making the mindstorms robot as telerobot using > lejos > |on linux, I want to ask whether using IR serial tower is the only way to run > lejos on > |linux? (I hope this question won't make you get confused!) That's right.

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		Re: Any substitute to the default lego serial cable!
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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		Re: Any substitute to the default lego serial cable!
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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