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Hi! I'm trying to run LegOS on SuSE 9.0. I built a 2.6.9 kernel with the USB tower module. After I load the module and plug in the USB tower, the little light in the tower goes on, so I know things must be working. However, I still don't know what (...) (20 years ago, 25-Nov-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Lego remote control code for PC
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Is there a way to write programs on the PC that are controlled by the Lego remote control? Clearly the RCX can be programmed to react to signals from the remote control but I was wondering whether the same could be done for a PC. Thanks, Ralph (20 years ago, 23-Nov-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: BrickOS on OSX
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(...) Try the proceding links: (URL) (20 years ago, 19-Nov-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Can't "make" BrickOS
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(...) Hi, looks to me like you didn't install the "make" package when you installed cygwin. The install doc here (URL) lists the packages you need to install with cygwin to build brickos. Hope this helps ROSCO (20 years ago, 18-Nov-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Can't "make" BrickOS
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I've been solving this problem for almost a month. What I do is delete cygwin and download again and again. Why? Here's the problem: $ ./configure; make Welcome to the BrickOS Makefile configurator. Attempting to find the Hitachi gcc compiler.(This (...) (20 years ago, 17-Nov-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | rcx to rcx
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Hi, Last weekend thanks to Ross Crawford’s crane2.c code (URL) figured out how to use The Lego Remote With BrickOS. Now I was hoping to find example code of rcx to rcx communication. I want to send the value of a Rotation sensor to a second rcx for (...) (20 years ago, 16-Nov-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | BrickOS on OSX
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Hello, I was wondering if anyone has compiled BrickOS to run on OS X with the USB IR Tower. I am able to successfully compile the GCC cross-compiler but I am unable to get the USB Tower to function correctly. Any help would be greatly appreciated. (...) (20 years ago, 14-Nov-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: remote
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(...) Hi Chris, The remote control code now resides in remote.h (URL) basically comes down to defining a callback function which gets called when any remote key is pressed or released. I haven't kept up with the development, but there is an early (...) (20 years ago, 8-Nov-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | remote
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Hello, I’m just recently getting back into playing with Legos. I bought my first house and had to fix it up before I could play. BrickOS was a lot easier to get into this time around thanks to BricxCC. BrickOS itself is better documented and has new (...) (20 years ago, 8-Nov-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | remote
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Hello, I’m just recently getting back into playing with Legos. I bought my first house and had to fix it up before I could play. BrickOS was a lot easier to get into this time around thanks to BricxCC. BrickOS itself is better documented and has new (...) (20 years ago, 8-Nov-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Can't make dllx - anyone else had this problem?
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Ok, thanks for that. I've got it compiling now - I didn't realise liblnp had to be compiled before dllx! (20 years ago, 29-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Can't make dllx - anyone else had this problem?
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(...) The linker is looking for the file liblnp.dll (Not 100% sure of the extension might be .a or .so). The -L arguments specifies a place to look for libraries and is probably where liblnp.dll is expected. Check this directory for the file. I have (...) (20 years ago, 29-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Can't make dllx - anyone else had this problem?
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I am trying to make all the LNP stuff at the moment. Having followed the instructions for installing dllx according to the readme on the legos.sourceforge.net website, I have come to the part where I type: make depend make in the dllx directory. (...) (20 years ago, 29-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Help installing brickOS
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(...) Sure. The configure script tries to find the gcc cross compiler toolchain for the brick's hitachi processor. This chain is needed to compile brickOS to a program that can be run by the RCX. But it seems that you did not install the tool chain. (...) (20 years ago, 28-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Help installing brickOS
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(...) I believe that I had the exact same problem a few weeks ago, but I found that using a pre-built package takes a lot of the hassle out of installing BrickOS. The pre-built packages can be found at: (URL) hope this helps, Timothy (20 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Help installing brickOS
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I'm trying to install brickOS 0.2.6.10.6 on WIN NT. After unning "configure" it's busy for along time, and terminates with the message -"No Hitachi gcc compiler found. Please install compiler and try again." Any suggestions? Thanks, Jordon (20 years ago, 27-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | use of single features of BrickOS
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Hi, I am working for the university of Stuttgart. And like universities are, they always need to do something special. That's why my task is to use Micro C/OS-II with the Bricks. There ist just a problem: Micro C/OS-II does not contain methods to (...) (20 years ago, 22-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | BrickOS Installation on OS X
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Hello, I was wondering if anyone has a step-by-step installation guide for installing BrickOS on Mac OS X 10.3. I recently tried but was not able to get it working properly. I did this by first installing libusb-0.1.8, binutils-2.15 and gcc-3.4.2. (...) (20 years ago, 20-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LNP: No connection between PC and RCX
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Nobody, who can help me??? I wondered if it could be a problem that I used gcc 3.3 (Suse Linux 9.0) to compile everything, and made the crosscompiler with a gcc2.95 packet, because the egcs packet doesn't work. There were errors during the (...) (20 years ago, 18-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | LNP: No connection between PC and RCX
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Hi, I want to send some data between my PC (Suse Linux 9.0) and the RCX-Unit (Brickos 0.2.6). I thought LNP would do the thing, and so I downloaded and installed it. When I start the LNPD daemon the LED on my Serial-IR-Tower lits up for a few (...) (20 years ago, 16-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Odd sensor, perhaps?
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Okay, I've trimmed down the program to try to figure out what is wrong, I have attached the working version. The problem is, if I change the TouchSensor from S3 to S2, the program will build and download fine, but it will not do anything when run. (...) (20 years ago, 14-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: help building gcc cross-compiler (long)
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(...) I think the variable sys_time was replaced with the function get_system_up_time between V2.6.09 and V2.6.10 So, I suspect the patch is for V2.6.09 Just guessing. Steve (20 years ago, 12-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: help building gcc cross-compiler (long)
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(...) Great idea, thanks! Now I'm trying to apply Mark Riley's DCC patch to the brickos-0.2.6.10 source. When I try: patch -d ../kernel <kernel.diff I get: patching file dmotor.c patching file systime.c Hunk #6 FAILED at 332. 1 out of 6 hunks FAILED (...) (20 years ago, 12-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos, lugnet.trains)
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| | Lego.NET: An MSIL front-end for gcc
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We are pleased to announce our first release of the LEGO.NET package, which allows to execute Microsoft IL code (as generated from C# and other languages) on the Lego Mindstorm hardware. This environment has a GCC front-end as its core, which (...) (20 years ago, 11-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: help building gcc cross-compiler (long)
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(...) You must not compile the gcc by your own. Why don't you use a ready-to-run rpm? You can find all you need at: (URL) (20 years ago, 11-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | help building gcc cross-compiler (long)
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I'm following Matthias Erhmann's excellent BrickOS Linux Installation HOWTO, and I've hit a snag. When executing the "make" command in step 2.2 to make the gcc cross-compiler, I got the error below. I commented out the first three lines of the (...) (20 years ago, 11-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Respondre el missatge: LNPd problems
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(...) ... (...) ... I uncommented that and recompiled, but nothing different happened. (20 years ago, 10-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Respondre el missatge: LNPd problems
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I also had a problem with lnpd and solved it. In my case was a problem with the configuration of the serial protocol, but the simptomes seemed like yours, thats I could receive from RCX but not send. I solved it modifiing the file rcxtty.c (or (...) (20 years ago, 8-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LNPd problems
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Can anybody help? If not I'll have to think of an alternative :s (20 years ago, 6-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: compiling problmes 2
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(...) I had the same problem when going to newer binutils and gcc. Look at the patch brickos-gcc33.diff at (URL) first part of that patch changes the linker script slightly to avoid this error. (...) I think with the default linker-script the (...) (20 years ago, 7-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: compiling problmes 2
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(...) Hello Jochen, hello everybody, thank you very much. Both of your hints helped a lot. As it were 271 linker-errors before your help, there are just 40 left now. Maybe someone can help me and tell me where the other references are defined and (...) (20 years ago, 7-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | LNPd problems
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I'm having problems with using LNP to transmit to the RCX. I wrote a test program both on the RCX and the PC. Whenever the PC program tries to transmit data, I get the following error: lnp_integrity_write(): Interrupted system call What does this (...) (20 years ago, 2-Oct-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: compiling problmes 2
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Hi Rudolf, (...) No. Some _are_ defined in .h-files. And the register sets come via h8300.rcx to boot/brickOS.lds. Is it possible that your compiler chain treats leading underscores different. (...) That is _not_ your problem. Take care of the fact (...) (20 years ago, 28-Sep-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: compiling problmes 2
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(...) Some of the functions are inline functions, that are *defined* in the header files, e.g.cputc_hex is defined in include/conio.h. With gcc you need to compile with optimization on, so that it will inline these functions correctly. Another (...) (20 years ago, 27-Sep-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: compiling problmes 2
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Can't be that the unresolved references are from the code I want to add to BrickOS, because I also tried to compile just the BrickOS-files (without the code I want to add) and the same errors appeared. (...) I looked for some of those references and (...) (20 years ago, 27-Sep-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Test
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I think my messages don't make it to the group... Test only... (20 years ago, 27-Sep-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: compiling problmes 2
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(...) Could the unresolved referenced be from the code you are adding to brickOS? From the looks of it, some of the unresoveds are probably defined in a header file (all caps is a hint). Maybe they were implied in the GCC compiler, but I doubt it. (...) (20 years ago, 25-Sep-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | source install brickos - stdio.h: No such file or directory
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I try to install the source of brickos on debian (kernel 2.6.8) like this : ganymedes:~# apt-get -b source brickos When I do this I receive the following error. I checked if I met all the dependencies and there were no problems. make[1]: Entering (...) (20 years ago, 24-Sep-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | howto apply usb patch to brickos
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Hi, thanks to some responses from this forum I now know that I need to patch brickos in order to function with the usb ir tower. The problem is...I have no idea how to apply this patch. I already downloaded the patch from sourceforge.net: (...) (20 years ago, 23-Sep-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | compiling problmes 2
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Hi everybody, as I mentioned in my first question I am trying to use BrickOS. But I am not using the Bricx Command Center or something special for the LEGO RCX to compile it, I am using the HEW (Renases tool for the H8/300L microcontroller which is (...) (20 years ago, 23-Sep-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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