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Bad things happen when I try to use the firmware download tool from the NQC environment to download an SREC file produced by either Web cross compilor. After a long wait, during which the bar graph that tracks loading progress lengthens, I get (...) (25 years ago, 26-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: quick copy of legOS howto?
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A new copy is now up at www.duke.edu/~liv/HO...OWTO.html. That should be 100% up to date (which is of course out of date, but you get the idea :) Have a good weekend, everyone- Luis (...) ###...### Profanity is the one language that all programmers (...) (25 years ago, 26-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: quick copy of legOS howto?
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Argh. Sorry about this, folks- no idea what the problem is, and the machine is not remotely accessible in any way, and I'm in at home (in Miami) while the box is still at school (in North Carolina). If you still need a copy, I may be able to find a (...) (25 years ago, 26-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | more networking questions
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Will the lnp task which is doing the receiving only wake up the next layer up if the message is properly formed. Currently here is my program -- start of longish bit of code -- #include <conio.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <dsensor.h> #include (...) (25 years ago, 26-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: using lego network protocol + collobartion on project??
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(...) I am still really battling with this. I have tried to hack the "program.c" which from what I understand is the code that the RCX uses to download legOS onto itself. I have gotten a very small subset of that program to compile but it seems to (...) (25 years ago, 26-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | using lego network protocol
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OK after many hardware problems (who says redhat is as easy to install as windows) I have finally gotten a nice copy of legOS 0.2.2 compiled. Anyhow my drving reason for wanting legOS 0.2.2 is so we can do some networking with the 6 RCX's we have (...) (25 years ago, 26-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | quick copy of legOS howto?
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Hey guys, For me the link seems to be down to the legOS how-to (just over there on the left hand side of the messages screen :) ). Does anyone have a local copy on their machine that they could send to my email address sort of right now :) I want to (...) (25 years ago, 25-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS 0.2.2 dsound_play ?
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One of my first goals for the RCX was to try and get it to speak. I talked to Markus about this a long time ago. At the time, he had written the speaker driver but was unable to get much more than noise to come out of it. Perhaps the digital (...) (25 years ago, 25-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | legOS 0.2.2 dsound_play ?
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hello again, has anybody got anything else than noise from legOS 0.2.2 dsound_play ? i'm able to compile and dll this little application: #include <dsound.h> #include "sample.h" int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { dsound_play(sample,s...(sample)); (...) (25 years ago, 25-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | LegOS 2.2 on solaris
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G'day, I succeeded in compiling and running legOS 1.7 on an intel solaris 2.7 machine. However, as I would like to use the networking features in 2.x, I tried to compile and run 2.2 as well. I can compile the package after modifying loader.c in (...) (25 years ago, 25-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LegOS 0.2.2 on Win95 (almost)
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Guys, please keep keeping the list (and myself) up to date- I want to make sure the next HOWTO has good win95 instructions from go. -Luis (who may actually work some on the HOWTO this weekend... woohoo!) (...) ###...### Profanity is the one language (...) (25 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LegOS 0.2.2 on Win95 (almost)
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Hi Peter, This is just as far as I got too. My next step is going to be to build the compiler with Markus' patch applied. But if you get to it first, that would be swell. Jonathan (...) (25 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LegOS 0.2.2 on Win95 (almost)
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Well, i get: loader hostaddr=80 hostmask=f0 portmask=0f delete try 0: ack:0 try 1: ack:0 try 2: ack:0 try 3: ack:0 try 4: ack:0 error deleting program It just occurred to me that i used the pre-built cross-compiler package from Gavin Smyth. I don't (...) (25 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LegOS 0.2.2 on Win95 (almost)
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(...) the symptom looks a little like the problems i encountered when i tried to compile legOS with gcc-2.95.2 under linux. The message "error deleting program" most likely means, that it was not possible to get in contact with the RCX at all. Could (...) (25 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | LegOS 0.2.2 on Win95 (almost)
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What i did: 0 Follow HOWTO for 0.1.7 (with 0.2.2 archive of course) 1 Add #define O_ASYNC _FASYNC to ...\cygwin-b20\H-i58...ys\fcntl.h (Thanks Luis Villa) 2 - create a subdirectory under legOS\include named lnp, and move lnp.h and lnp-logical.h from (...) (25 years ago, 24-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS IR comm and debugging tools
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(...) Yes, do follow this vision. (...) See "info gdb", following the links Targets -> Remote -> Remote Serial. The protocol assumes a serial line, using +/- for acknowledge/nak, single character commands and hexadecimal addresses. There are several (...) (25 years ago, 23-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS IR comm and debugging tools
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(...) Lorenzo, i also just started with legOS and just thought about exactly the same issue. I'm wondering, if anyone has tried to run gdb in remote mode on the RCX. Imho, this would be the perfect solution... I've never ported gdb-remote to a new (...) (25 years ago, 23-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | legOS IR comm and debugging tools
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Hello, as I begin to appearch dangerously the 32 variables limit of nqc on a current project, I have started to approach LegOS. After some apparently common problems, I managed to compile the h8300 programs and compile legOS 0.2.2. The demos work as (...) (25 years ago, 22-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Battery Status ?
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Has anybody figured out the meaning of values got from the BATTERY sensor ? Currently, my little testproggy "cputw(BATTERY>>6);" displays F9, and i guess my batteries are close to their end of life. BTW, if you read this, Markus: The new rotation (...) (25 years ago, 22-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Problem with asm statement in loader.c
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(...) hmm, i did not have to do that (...) just looked at your original posting and saw you are using glibc-1 -- i guess that's making the difference. In glibc-2.0 headers, O_ASYNC is defined to be 0x20000, and FASYNC is defined as O_ASYNC. (...) (25 years ago, 21-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Relocation trunctated to fit (LegOS 0.2.2)
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Hi all, I overcame my last problem while compiling LegOS 0.2.2 only to be presented with a new one. I assume that these are errors as they are being dumped to sterr. Here is a sample of the errors (?) that are being produced: (...) (25 years ago, 20-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: compiling 0.2.2 (legos.srec)
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I had same (similar) problem using legOS-0.2.1, I am able to build 0.2.2 without problems... erik (...) (25 years ago, 20-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Problem with asm statement in loader.c
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hi martin, thanks for the good explanation, that makes the whole problem somewhat clearer to me. yesterday i fetched the egcs-1.1.2 sources, built the crosscompiler with applied interrupt-patch and attached -Dinhibit_libc at the end of CFLAGS. in (...) (25 years ago, 20-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: compiling 0.2.2 (legos.srec)
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Quickly, before I leave for dinner... I know this has been mentioned here before. Try looking through the archives of it. I'd find it myself, but I'm in a hurry. Good luck- Luis (...) ###...### Profanity is the one language that all programmers (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | compiling 0.2.2 (legos.srec)
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Hello all, I have successfully built a cross compiler. However, I am having trouble getting legOS to compile. I am recieving the following error message: [root@localhost legOS]# make for i in util lib boot demo ; do make -C $i || exit -1 ; done (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: O_ASYNC problem (Solaris again)
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BTW, a really good article on Solaris aio is here: (...) ###...### Profanity is the one language that all programmers understand. -Anonymous ###...### (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Problem with asm statement in loader.c
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(...) Hi Klaus, first: forget gcc-2.95.2 for CROSS-compiling for the moment, it does NOT work with legOS-0.2.2. You can compile legOS using it, but legOS will hang immediately when you try to download any user program. I guess only Markus is able to (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: O_ASYNC problem (Solaris again)
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(...) I think it is quite likely that Solaris does not have it- neither Solaris i386 or Solaris Sparc (at least the versions that I have access to) have it. (...) Hmm. O_ASYNC is defined in /usr/include/bits/fcntl.h under Linux. The equivalent file (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Problem with asm statement in loader.c
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hi, as many others, i also want to succeed in building legOS (0.2.2). :) my platform is linux, kernel 2.0.38, glibc1. i've builded binutils-2.9.1.0.25 and gcc-2.95.2 as described in the howto. version 0.1.7 works just fine, but if i attempt to build (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | O_ASYNC problem (Solaris again)
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Hi all, We are persisting with our build on solaris for legOS 0.2.2 things are getting closer. We have sorted out the getopt.h problems by just copying the getopt.c and getopt.h into the dll-src directory (because it is a known path for the Makefile (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Notes on WinNT and legOS 0.2.2
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(...) In fact, as currently configured, building user-land programs also requires one of the perl programs in util, so we can't quite get rid of it yet. Here is my perl analysis- As far as I can tell (via extensive grepping and make-file reading), (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Yippie, heLLo world (was: Re: Kernel dies after loading)
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Well, Markus is probably better qualified, but I'm going to try to get to it eventually. Don't bet on it for anytime soon- I seem to be getting less and less freetime, instead of more :( -Luis (...) ###...### Profanity is the one language that all (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Notes on WinNT and legOS 0.2.2
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(...) I think that making .lx files doesn't involve Perl, even though building legOS.srec and the util stuff still uses Perl. This implies that you could distribute a precompiled legOS.srec and a smaller set of tools, sans Perl, for people to build (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Notes on WinNT and legOS 0.2.2
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Thanks for the notes. I briefly tried to get legOS to compile on NT and gave up before I got as far as you did. Let us know if you get it all working. (...) Joel Shafer joel@connect.net (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Notes on WinNT and legOS 0.2.2
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(...) It's quite possible that the -nostdinc line will block out the getopt.h mentioned in an earlier post. Could this be what you recall having to move? (...) This would be Markus's bit, but do we have anyone who knows cross-platform make stuff (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: compiling legOS
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(...) getopt.h is part of the standard gnu C libraries. In a normal Linux system, it is in /usr/include/. What compiler are you using on Solaris? Is it gcc or something else? If it's gcc, then it should be there. IF you are not using gcc, then there (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Notes on WinNT and legOS 0.2.2
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No, I don't have it working yet. However, I've made progress, and I thought my experience might be helpful to others who are more savvy with the GNU tools than I am. - I did get everything to compile. As Luis suggested, the -nostdinc flag takes care (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | compiling legOS
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Hi all, I think we have finally gotten a cross compiler built for Solaris. I am still not 100% sure. I will not say that we have until I have seen a robot driving around the table which has a program written in legOS and downloaded in it. However at (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: argh
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Hmm. I'm using 2.95.2 and getting all these weird errors. Oh well- I'll report more later. -Luis (...) ###...### Profanity is the one language that all programmers understand. -Anonymous ###...### (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: argh
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(...) Do you mean gcc 2.95.x ? If so, yes, i did it 2 days ago. The native compiler on my linux box (kernel 2.2.13, glibc 2.0 ) is a self compiled gcc 2.95.1. The cross compiler egcs-1.1.2 for h8300 built without problems on this machine, and i was (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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