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Hi Michael, Try the --slow option on firmdl3. This forces it to use the slow download speed, and may help. Also, use --debug to display more debugging info. This may help someone here to work out what the problem is. I'm not sure what the equivalent (...) (23 years ago, 18-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: problems with legos on notebook
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Hallo Ross! This is just the problem, I can not download programs or the legos.srec. Both, firmdl3 and dll give the message "bad ir link". I have an other linux computer on which (with a built in com port) dll and firmdl3 work correctly. I compared (...) (23 years ago, 17-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: problems with legos on notebook
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Michael, I may not be much help as I only use my laptop for downloading programs, not development, and my serial port is built-in. Is there any message when it fails to connect, or not? Does it fail immediately, or timeout after a wait? Do firmdl3 & (...) (23 years ago, 16-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | problems with legos on notebook
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Hallo! Has anybody experiences with legos on notebooks? I want to use legos under linux on a notebook computer. I use a serial pcmcia card from socket communications. The serial port is configured as ttyS0 (irq 4 and io-adr. 0x03f8 are configured (...) (23 years ago, 15-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: ir communication
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(...) Chris (23 years ago, 14-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: transfer data failed
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yes I did ... :-( manuel (...) (23 years ago, 14-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | not strictly legOS
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hi all, im doing a research project over here and in the process i have set up lnpd and now have continous communication between my robot and the PC. Now then here is the deal, there is a teoretical posibility that i will get more inputs from my (...) (23 years ago, 14-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: WINLNP QUESTIONS
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I did some more digging. When I look into the reg I do not find the reg keys as mentioned on the (URL) page. I dig in the code and set the com port by hand (directly to com1) and now I have the green ligth on the IR tower. However still no messages (...) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: ir communication
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Yes there is. It is LNP it is availiable for windows or linux. I am just fiddling with the windows version see: (URL) I did not get it working just fine see also my post just before you (...) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi, i am just doing my first steps with legOS and i want to send some data back to the PC. Is there any kind of software for the PC to read that data and save or display it? TIA Chris (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | WINLNP QUESTIONS
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Dear all, I have some troubles setting up WinLNP. I am new to RCX (2 months) and legOS (1 month) and have not much experience with VC6. I want to set up a line of communication between PC and RCX. I downloaded everything from (URL) and I managed to (...) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: transfer data failed
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(...) One other thing, did you erase the firmware from the RCX before trying to load legOS? regards Frank Caggiano "The best education for the best caggiano@crystal-objects.com is the best education for all." (URL) Robert M. Hutchins Logo Users (...) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: transfer data failed
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(...) Did you try slow? (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: transfer data failed
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(...) Did you try using the slow mode option ("-s" for firmdl3) as was suggested? (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi, thanks for the tips, but nothing helps. I tried 0.2.5, I tried the far and near mode, I changed the lighting conditions -> nothing helped. But I don't think that I fired up my Brick/Tower because the original Lego Software under Windows works, (...) (23 years ago, 13-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I use 0.2.5 in windows (djgpp), and can't get by without using the slow download option (-s). If you have lighting problems, perhaps flipping the little switch on the IR tower will help. When I download stuff at school, it helps to have it set to (...) (23 years ago, 8-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I am using 0.2.4 under windoz and have had similar problems. I found that I must use the slow download option (-s) for the firmware to load properly. regards (23 years ago, 7-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Hi, i use 0.2.5 under Cygwin and sometimes i experience the same problem. I dont think its a problem with the legOS 0.2.4 distribution. The problem often occurs if its too dark or too bright in your room. It also happens if sender and receiver (...) (23 years ago, 7-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi there, I use legOS 0.2.4 under Linux and tried (after a few weeks) to download the firmware and get always the follwing error: firmdl3/firmdl: transfer data failed Batteries are brand new, tower was set to short and long dist. nothing helped ... (...) (23 years ago, 6-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Is this an error in legOS 0.2.5?
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(...) a (...) Maybe, if you wanted to be really flash, when you get the (non-ultra) low battery warning, your robot could start seeking out the tower, and get ready to send the data. Maybe have a light near the tower that starts flashing when it (...) (23 years ago, 4-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: about lnp_integrety_write
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(...) Hi, the function does exactly what the name says...it sends a LNP integrity layer packet of given length. Anyway the function seems to be unused. lnp_addressing_write() is e.g. used to send the acknowledges in program.c, which makes perfect (...) (23 years ago, 3-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | about lnp_integrety_write
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anyone know what this function does? i could get no reference to it under the legOS howto written by luis villa. ive tried sending messages both with it and without it and it seems to work anyways. regards kenneth johansen kennethj@stud.cs.uit.no (23 years ago, 3-Aug-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Is this an error in legOS 0.2.5?
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(...) Hmmm, yes, you are right. In fact it woudn't make sense. My actual robot uses a little neural net and if battery goes low, the actual data will be sent to the PC to be saved. For this, it would be nice if the RCX makes some noise, I grab it, (...) (23 years ago, 31-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Is this an error in legOS 0.2.5?
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(...) ultra-low (...) Would that really make sense? Since changing batteries destroys all memory, the program will not survive despite advance warning about the impending doom of battery low. In effect, changing the batteries is equivalent to the (...) (23 years ago, 30-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Is this an error in legOS 0.2.5?
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So in the original firmware, the system is shut down if ultra-low battery is detected. If we don't want tot do that, we could change the ">" in the 2nd compare to a "<" to get some hysteresis. Or would it be usefull to stop legOS and do a shut-down (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Is this an error in legOS 0.2.5?
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(...) in (...) Statement should be right. It's same behavier found in original firmware: (URL) (battery power (cc5a) > 1a2c (6700 mV)) call ROM 1e4a (r6=301b) // clear battery low indicator else if (battery power (cc5a) > 189c (6300 mV)) call ROM (...) (23 years ago, 28-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | lnp logical layer and collison detection
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Hi, 1: does anybody know if the collision detection in the (LNP) logical layer relies on the LNP-packtstructure of is this kind of collison detection done without knowing the packetstructure of LNP ? 2: does anybody have simple routines to send and (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Makefile Design - Observation, and Query to Paolo Masetti
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The latest CVS version of legOS adds explicit detection of CygWin 1.1 (and by extension 1.3) This did, however work anyway, with Cygwin 1.1 being detected alongside the older cygwins, due to a quirk in make's findstring - specifically, that: (...) (23 years ago, 25-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | re: remote control
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(...) I dont know if this is what you are looking for, but it appears to do the same thing over the web. I havent taken much of a look at it. (URL) (23 years ago, 23-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | remote control
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hi all, ive been out of the loop for a while now (summer vacation). so if this has been discused lately forgive my ignorance. im working on a program that lets me control the RCX from a PC using the IR tower. im using legOS 2.4 on redhat 6.1. i am (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Fix for remote patch
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(...) I'll post a diff eventually, but in the meantime, just apply the remote patch from sourceforge, open util/dll-src/rcxtty.c, find the following block, and make the changes to the two lines marked //!!! // Serial settings FillMemory(&dcb, (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Hi, Its good to know that there is a bug and that there is someone who knows how to fix it. Could you maybe send me some sample code for the rcx and the win32 side ? I dont want anything special just a few lines of code for each side (rcx and (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LegOS, WIN98 & Cygwin 1.3.2
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Nice to be appreciated :-) Running the command 'strip -s *.exe' for each directory containing .exe files reclaims considerable disc space, by removing dubugging information which is embedded in the .exes. P.S. I did briefly experiment with a mingw (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Fix for remote patch
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The remote patch on the sourceforge website is slightly broken on Win32. (The necessary code changes have been made in a Linux only section, but the Win32 bit is untouched. The problen is util/rcxtty.c, which does not set the correct (odd) parity (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | LegOS, WIN98 & Cygwin 1.3.2
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Hello, Well after a week of head beating, cursing, downloads and chicken waving AND a great deal of help from Max Bowsher (this last bit was actually the most useful :-) I finally have legOS up and running with the above setup. Had I followed Max's (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | sample code for the remote patch (pc side)
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Hi, is anybody using the remote patch ? I d be glad if anybody could post or send me some sample code for the pc-side where remote messages are send to the RCX. Thanx, Olaf Christ (23 years ago, 20-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Hardware Hacking of RCX
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Roy Wood wrote: (snip) (...) (snip) Hmm... Heres one idea that'll look REALLY good on your resume :) Asymmetric Multiprocessing: RCX -> Basic Stamp 2p40 Use the RCX to communicate with a Parallax Basic Stamp. You can use a 5v regulator and control (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Hardware Hacking of RCX
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(...) Hi, if want to use more sensors, then you might wanna look at (URL) a look at "3 Sharps using 1 input", heat up your soldering iron and have fun. Olaf Christ ---...--- If knowlege is power, how come the more I learn, the more I realize how (...) (23 years ago, 19-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Hardware Hacking of RCX
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Considering that LegOS talks directly to the hardware, this seems like a good place to ask the following questions. I am yet again frustrated at having only three inputs and three outputs on my RCX, and am wondering at the possibility of hacking the (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Setup of winlnp
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Hello, I'm having problems setting up winlnp and getting it to work. I have downloaded, compiled and utilized legos 0.2.5 successfullyand have downloaded and compiled the winlnp visual c++ package. But i haven't found any thorough documentationon (...) (23 years ago, 18-Jul-01, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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