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We are working to release 0.2.6 by the end of this week. If you have not yet had time to test 0.2.5.2 (the current test version) please take time to do so and let us know what you find. You can dowload from (URL) you know of anything we are missing, (...) (22 years ago, 16-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Release candidate legos-0.2.5.2 avail for testing
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(...) This is a great idea. We will post binary packages for at least the windows platform. Regards, Stephen for the legOS team -- (22 years ago, 16-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Release candidate legos-0.2.5.2 avail for testing
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(...) Kingsley about setting up a "upload only" environment on his windoze laptop, I searched & was unable find a pre-compiled version of dll.exe & firmdl3.exe. I know I must've found them somewhere before, 'cos I've never had a development (...) (22 years ago, 15-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: cgywin
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Hi, I installed legOS and cygwin a while ago ... OK, it was version 0.2.4 ;-) But what I've done differently is that I didn't took the original gcc-sources from gnu.org, but the sources of the compiler in cygwin. Maybe you would also like to check (...) (22 years ago, 15-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: cgywin
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WinXP I just tried 0.2.5.2, no luck uname gives me "CGYWIN_NT-5.1" any of this help? thanks -----Original Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway...ugnet.com] On Behalf Of Paolo Masetti Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 6:02 PM (...) (22 years ago, 14-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I don't use cygwin but linux. But in this group, several cygwin problems were discussed over the time. One problem seems to be the PATH env. variable for the cygwin bash shell. With wrong set PATH, bash doesn't find what it needs to work (...) (22 years ago, 14-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: cgywin
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(...) beginning. Windows 9x? Win2k? WinXP? Which version of legOS? For latest cygwin you need the latest available version 0.2.5.2 that you can find here: (URL) is your output for "uname" command? Bye, Paolo. --- Keyboard failure....Press F1 to (...) (22 years ago, 14-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: cgywin
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after about an hour it finished ...but i'm still having problems when i type "make realclean" i get a big mess of stuff with the only noticable error being "gccw32: not found" and that occurs at the beginning. then i type "make depend" i get a small (...) (22 years ago, 14-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: cgywin
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it seems make dosn't install by default with the cgywin setup file. i reinstalled cgywin with "make" and other needed modules: ash autoconf automake bash binutils cpio cygwin diff file fileutils findutils flex gcc grep less login make mingw patch (...) (22 years ago, 14-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi all, I currently use legOS on my linux machine. I want to be able to use it on my laptop, so i'm not always tied to my desktop. I purchased a Serial USB adapter since my laptop does not have a serial port. $80!!! I decided that it would be much (...) (22 years ago, 13-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Release candidate legos-0.2.5.2 avail for testing
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Details regarding release content, download instructions and how to provide feedback are at (URL) change detail specific to 0.2.5.2 see the file: ChangeLog Highlights: Added missing file TODO Repaired slow-mode IR comm. for Linux We look forward to (...) (22 years ago, 12-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Light Sensor help
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(...) I had a similar problem using RoboLab. I had a task that looped and checked the light sensor once in each loop. If the light sensor changed within the loop but NOT at the time when the check was made it would be missed. I replaced it with a (...) (22 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I’ve never had any problems with the light sensor reading fast enough, and I have a robot that runs pretty fast. How are you trying to follow the line? Maybe there’s a problem with your conversion between NQC and LegOS. I’d be glad to offer (...) (22 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Light Sensor help
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The hardware can get a light sensor reading every 1 mS. Is the process that is reading the light sensor at a high enough priority? Kevin "Nathan Nesbit" <natenez@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:Gu7zno.41A@lugnet.com... (...) issue (...) motor (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: Light Sensor help
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Try replacing the batteries -----Original Message----- From: news-gateway@lugnet.com [mailto:news-gateway...ugnet.com] On Behalf Of Nathan Nesbit Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 8:25 PM To: lugnet.robotics.rcx....lugnet.com Subject: Light Sensor help (...) (23 years ago, 9-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Light Sensor help
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I'm a new legos user and I'm trying to get my first app working. The issue appears to be that the light sensor value isn't getting updated as frequently as I expected. When I slow down the motors my line tracking program works fine. I speed it up (...) (23 years ago, 7-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: The PRGM key - THANKS!
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(...) Have you tried the lnp checksum optimization patch? This could help, too Mike (23 years ago, 8-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: The PRGM key - THANKS!
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"Michael Obenland" <obenland@t-online.de> wrote in message news:Gu9BHq.BEv@lugnet.com... <snip> (...) control. (...) influence (...) have (...) But I (...) Mike, I had experienced intermittent problems with downloading programs until I changed the (...) (23 years ago, 8-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Release candidate legos-0.2.5.1 avail for testing
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(...) dll doesn't work with serial tower in slow mode. In util/dll-src/rcxtty.c please fix the line setting the ios flags to: ios.c_cflag = CREAD | CLOCAL | CS8 | (highspeed ? 0 : PARENB | PARODD); Mike (23 years ago, 8-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) When you use firmdl3, changing anything inside the lnp handler won't do anything useful! The code resposible for fast downloading is the small assembly code transfered before the legOS download starts. (...) Don't do that! legOS 0.2.5 ran on (...) (23 years ago, 8-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: The PRGM key - THANKS!
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Wow! I am so glad this worked. I entered a bug for the program.c changes earlier today (on sourceforge) and will enter one for the readme change. (However, we could solve the problem by updating dll as well... to find the parameter in any location) (...) (23 years ago, 8-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Fine to hear you are up and running. (...) No, I don't think so. In fact, using dll with the right parameters does the trick. Sorting out what you have written, I think you downloaded all your programs to slot 0, your old program was deleted (...) (23 years ago, 8-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: The PRGM key - THANKS!
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I tried doing "dll -pX prog.lx" instead of "dll prog.lx -pX" and it works! Thanks. It would be good if Joe Wooley's alteration to program.c could be included in the next version of legOS because it does the trick with the "keeping alive" and "error (...) (23 years ago, 8-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Well, I am sorry to say that I don't have a solution for that problem. I haven't experienced this before. I am glad to hear that the program download doesn't fail anymore; and I will request that 0.2.6 contains a similar fix. Ok, another suggestion: (...) (23 years ago, 8-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I don’t know if it makes any difference, but I always put the destination before the name of the program. Ex: “dll -p1 hello.lx” Steve (...) (23 years ago, 8-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Sorry, no. That's the one difference; it no longer says error deleting program and I don't get any errors when downloading to the RCX. I always use firmdl3 -s because using just firmdl3 on its own never works for me. I still have the problem that (...) (23 years ago, 8-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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After making the change, do you still get "Error deleting program"? or other errors while downloading the program? Your assumption is correct, it will only switch to a program slot if there is a valid program there. I had problems sending programs (...) (23 years ago, 8-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: The PRGM key
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I just tried this and it has no effect. By the way, I'm using Cygwin B20 under Windows 98 with a com port IR thing, and LegOS 0.2.5. The same thing happened using WinLegOS and 0.2.3. Pressing the PRGM key has no effect in any situation - I assume it (...) (23 years ago, 7-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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I had similar problems when using legOS with CONF_TM defined in boot/config.h What I found was that the lnp handler was not getting enough processing time and was missing some data at times. Try the following fix and let me know if it helps. If so, (...) (23 years ago, 7-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | The PRGM key
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I quote from the original readme: "Type "dll demo/helloworld.lx". If all is well, it should be automatically relocated and transmitted to program slot 0. Press the RUN key to run. The program stops automatically. Type "dll demo/rover.c -p1" to (...) (23 years ago, 7-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | MD5 available (was: RCX as a PGP engine)
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I just put my java MD5 port for lejos on the web: (URL) for the popups, Tripod....) It's a terrible hack, but thanks to that memory footprint is low and it does not leak! Let me know if you find it useful. Have fun, Bart. (23 years ago, 7-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.robotics.rcx.java)
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| | WinLNP and USB
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Hi All, I've been trying to send data to my PC using WinLNP and the USB tower. Now, I've modified WinLNP to use the USB tower and it seems to work. I can get the demo RCX program to run and it recognizes I've sent it a byte. I can also get the RCX (...) (23 years ago, 7-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Release candidate legos-0.2.5.1 avail for testing
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Details regarding release content, download instructions and how to provide feedback are at (URL) look forward to hearing from you regarding how it works for you and/or what needs fixing before we release it as 0.2.6 Regards, Stephen for the legOS (...) (23 years ago, 6-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Using legos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net VS posting at lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos
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Joseph Woolley <jwoolley@spamblock....ht.rr.com> wrote in message news:Gtw6sr.DC9@lugnet.com... (...) [snip] (...) the (...) next (...) Joseph, How did you sign up? I looked around but found no solution to this. I even tried the old subscribe in (...) (23 years ago, 1-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Using legos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net VS posting at lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos
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"Ed Manlove" <emanlove@ieee.org> wrote in message news:Gtw4Gt.421@lugnet.com... (...) is (...) idea (...) to (...) this (...) I understand and agree with you here. However, I was able to sign up for the maillist with no problems. It appeared to be (...) (23 years ago, 1-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Using legos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net VS posting at lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos
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As mentioned in the RLS doc ((URL) there is mention of communicating with the sourceforge maillist legos-devel@lists.so...forge.net. I don't think this is the greatest idea for a couple of reasons. One it is tough to get signed on. Luis (for (...) (23 years ago, 1-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: "Want to get started with legOS" needs help again
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Max, I believe the source of this is (URL) as you said should not really be there because of B20 (which is actually what I have been using for reasons below) and because these instructions have been superceded by (URL) problem here is the different (...) (23 years ago, 1-Apr-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: "Want to get started with legOS" needs help again
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Aaagh! Cygwin B20! That's about 4 years old, IIRC. The current version is 1.3.10, soon to be 1.3.11. Get it from www.cygwin.com - and where did you manage to find B20 ? That site should either remove it or mark it as of historical interest only. (...) (23 years ago, 30-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: "Want to get started with legOS" needs help again
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(...) It means very little. The first time you run Cygwin, it complains about the missing tmp directory. In order to get around this, create a directory 'tmp' from within Cygwin's bash shell using the command: mkdir /tmp This will get rid of that (...) (23 years ago, 30-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | "Want to get started with legOS" needs help again
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I have followed all the stuff on the webpages but when I click a Cygwin B20 in the start menu it says bash.exe: warning:-coukd not find /tmp. please create! BASH.EXE-2.02$ what does this mean and how do I fix it (23 years ago, 30-Mar-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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