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(...) How about RobOS? /~\ Eddie C. Dost ASCII ribbon campaign \ / ecd@skynet.be against HTML mail X / \ (23 years ago, 12-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Itried to install the linux usb drive on mu computer with redhat 7.2 and 2.4.9-21 kernel. It did not work, this is the error message returned. What's wrong? /Hans Karlsson [root@nisse usb_lego]# make cc -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes (...) (23 years ago, 12-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Just remember that Mindstorms and RCX are also trademarks. Jürgen (23 years ago, 12-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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How about rOS or rcxOS? I think it should support USB in next relase. Zhengrong (...) (23 years ago, 12-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Or what about brOS for Brick OS? Mike (23 years ago, 11-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) How about msOS (for MindstormsOS)? Oh, wait, we'd probably have Bill on our tails with that one... ROSCO (23 years ago, 11-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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It is a shame that the name legOS can not be kept. I think it describes the software perfectly. And if it can't be used in the future (which I suggest some begging and pleading here) I would have a name that has OS in it to best describe it. For (...) (23 years ago, 11-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I am new to this newsgroup, so I hope I am not repeating information - I cannot find the solution to this from a search. I am porting a small maths library to the Lego brick at the moment (cos, sin, tan, sinh, cosh, tanh, acos, asin, atan, sqrt, (...) (23 years ago, 11-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I've posted the multiplexor patch under the patches secetion of the legOS project at sourceforge. (URL) you can't follow that link just go to (URL) then follow the patches link and look for the multiplexor patch. If you improve upon it post the (...) (23 years ago, 10-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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"Michael Obenland" <obenland@t-online.de> wrote in message news:GrBqw5.KL4@lugnet.com... (...) A recursive acronym in the GNU style? KNEBL: KNEBL's Not Endorsed By Lego or snebl, fnebl... Should keep 'em happy :) Tim (23 years ago, 10-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: multiplexor and legOS
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(...) Sort of. Try Sourceforge ((URL) is on the "Patches" page (just click on the "Submit New" link). Great Job!! I am looking forward to be able to use the multiplexer finally! I've successfully added the "priority interrupt" patch to legOS 0.2.5 (...) (23 years ago, 10-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) That was not the cause for my RFC. You do a wonderful job! And legOS does it as well. No real overwhelming cause for doing a new release. (...) Well, not really. I wold favour other solutions first: - if you can go on with legOS-maintainance - (...) (23 years ago, 10-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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For anyone who want's it, I have a linux USB driver for the lego IR tower. If anyone is interested, the tar ball of driver and pathces to nqc and legOS can be found at: (URL) am hoping to reconsile my driver with the version that was being worked (...) (23 years ago, 10-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I'm happy to report that after writing the multiplexor driver at the kernel level it's working! I'll post a patch soon once I've got it cleaned up a little bit. It looks like the problem was with the legOS power/read cycle in ds_handler. Once I took (...) (23 years ago, 10-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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It appears that the time has come for 0.2.6; it has been more than 18 months now since 0.2.5. I still lurk here, but my work with Free Software has consumed my time- even when I'm not paid, I'm pretty much a slave to bugzilla.gnome.org and (...) (23 years ago, 9-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I think it would be a very good idea to incorporate the prio-patch to legOS. But there seem to be a lot of patches and enhancements for 0.2.5. Personally, I use the remote control patch from Zhenrong Zang. And there is the TCP/IP system... Any more (...) (23 years ago, 9-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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We are gathered here to witness the union of priointerrupt-patch.diff and legOS-0.2.5. If anyone has just cause why these two should not be wed may they speak now or forever hold their peace. Robert Templeton (23 years ago, 8-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Still no luck in getting the mux working properly. I tried making use of the code for turning sensors on and off but later realized that the ds_handler code would still be turning the sensor off as part of its normal operation. I think I'm going to (...) (23 years ago, 7-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Now that my interest has been piqued by the multiplexer problem (and sensing problem in general), what would some of you hardened embedded/real-time system veterans recommend for reading on the subject. Two books that I've found at Amazon.com are (...) (23 years ago, 6-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I'm just checking this thing out. You can look at: (URL) more information. Unfortunately, I got the .ps description file but not the source code patch file. A mail asking for it is on it's way ;) Mike (23 years ago, 5-Feb-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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