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Well, i'm still looking to find out what might go wrong. Fixing the sigio handler is of no use as cygwin doesn't send sigio's when data arrives at a serial port. Peter (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Transmission Problems
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(...) After doing a bit of debugging, I have determined it's all characters between 127-255, most often 127 or 255. If anyone has any ideas on what's causing this, please reply... (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: (Failed) Getting LegOS 0.2.2 working on Windows
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(...) I hadn't fixed that - but it doesn't appear to make a difference. I patched both the original sources and the post-WINNT-specific-patches, but no change in behavior: the RCX answers are never heard using the original sources, and the (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: (Failed) Getting LegOS 0.2.2 working on Windows
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(...) i dont´t know if you have already fixed this, anyways, there is a bug in sigio_handler. The struct timeval last is used uninitialized and should be static. Today i sent the following little patch to Markus. ------- schnips schnips -------- --- (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: (Failed) Getting LegOS 0.2.2 working on Windows
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(...) Hey -- More info about this odd bug. Installed 0.2.3, and the bug is still there. A bit more tweaking revealed: * Compiling with the original (.orig, pre-patch versions of loader, lx, and rcxtty) yielded - after changing O_ASYNC to FASYNC - (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Yes, it looks like random is in a private library of mine, sorry. With all the exciting networking development happening, count on 0.2.4 being released soon, it will contain random() again. (...) For small amounts of random numbers, you may (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: random() compile problems
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(...) Hi Matthew, it lokks like the functions are simply not defined neither in the legOS kernel nor in the libs. Following the comment in include/stdlib.h, they should be in libiberty.a, which is somewhere in the cross-compiler tree. However, (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hello. I am using legOS-990330 with the transmission handler patch. I have no problems receiving at all, but periodically strange nonsensical data somehow inserts itself into the output stream with no apparent reason, like ~..y~~ Does anybody know (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi all, We are having troubles compiling code that makes use of the random() (and srandom()). The error messages that occour when we compile are: undefined reference to '_srandom' undefined reference to '_random' Any help will be greatly (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | linux-lnp: select() vs. SIGIO ( was Re: Call for debugging support )
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(...) Uuh, there was a little bug in my test program. Once again, i learned i have to read gcc´s warnings carefully. On linux, select() suffers exactly the same thing as SIGIO. If the hardware fifo of the uart is enabled, and there is a stream of (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Sound patch for 0.2.3
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As somebody painted out today, the frequency settings for PITCH_Gm2 through PITCH_Am3 (or 23-37) are erroneous. I copied and pasted these from Martin's "Wir sind die Roboter" demo, which seems to be in error, too. A patch to alleviate the problem is (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | legOS-0.2.3 released
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Hello everyone, legOS-0.2.3 is out and available at (URL) for legOS-0.2.3: ---...--- * Better rotation sensor handling via state tables. * Sound driver to play sequences of notes. * Improved packet retransmit handling for program downloads. * (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Problem with downloading large LX files in legOS (patch)
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Hi Frank, (...) Did you try changing end-of-packet timing? This may be due to ringing in the receiver, or any sort of analogue issue. This may also be the reason why LEGO is using complement bytes ;-) (...) Yes, this is what I meant to happen. (...) (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hello Martin, pthreads and select sound fairly portable. And, as I mentioned before, there's a way of having Windows dispatch asynchronous serial events to programs, so work on porting would be fairly localized. The library approach has one serious (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: (Failed) Getting LegOS 0.2.2 working on Windows
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(...) The original loader.c doesn't compile, due to O_ASYNC (and other stuff) - worked around in the patch for Windows folks. No help there ... I did some poking and experimentation, and here's a tad more info: - The "Invalid argument" error happens (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: (Failed) Getting LegOS 0.2.2 working on Windows
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(...) The original loader.c doesn't compile, due to O_ASYNC (and other stuff) - worked around in the patch for Windows folks. No help there ... I did some poking and experimentation, and here's a tad more info: (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Getting LegOS 0.2.2 working on Windows (Oddities)
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To Peter, Luis, and everybody else who put together the LegOS-on-Windows installation instructions: bravo! In most ways, everything worked perfect -- and on a Windows 2000 laptop, no less! There are, however, two glitches: 1 - When I run firmdl3 on (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Call for debugging support
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(...) You can take for sure that I read this ng, and I'd bet on Marco too :-) Yes, I've not been posting for a while. I've been very busy organizing the Italian Lego Users Group website ((URL) and this took a great deal of my spare time. I still (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Cool. Thanks. Ian (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I seem to recall there being a pretty good pthreads implementation for windows, and voila... (URL) Ferrari and Marco Beri also referred to a "native" pthreads library when they first released emuLegOS, but I can't actually find a link from (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) I doubt that's portable (and I'm a little surprised). (...) Only on sockets. (...) Don't be funny! Windows has its own threads, of course. Cheers, Ben. -- SECURE HOSTING AT THE BUNKER! (URL) grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) It is MIME encoding for non-ASCII characters. Cheers, Ben. -- SECURE HOSTING AT THE BUNKER! (URL) grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: (Failed) Getting LegOS 0.2.2 working on Windows
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(...) The cygnus.bat file sets some environment variables (MAKE_MODE and PATH). You could probably call cygnus.bat from the MS command prompt, although i haven't tried that. (...) Well, the instructions do say to use "tar xvfz", maybe we should (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: (Failed) Getting LegOS 0.2.2 working on Windows
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Hi, thank you all for your help. (...) works now. I think the problem was that I used MS Command Prompt and called bash there instead of using the cygwin window directly. (...) Could fix that as well. I used Winzip to unpack legOS instead of tar (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Sorry to digress, but I just wanted to ask a question: is "equal sign B 4" supposed to be a code for the apostrophe? (They're not translating to apostrophes on my viewer.) How then would you make other symbols? Does this code reference some (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: Call for debugging support
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(...) hello Markus, i´m still working on a (hopefully) portable, robust version of linux LNP, that allows multiple client tasks or threads on the PC to communicate with one ore more RCX´s simultanously via one tower, ( one of them could be gdb, in (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | RE: Call for debugging support
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(...) I'm not sure what the issues are, Markus. But I could have a look at it in the new year. The lack of debugger support in legOS was one of the main reasons behind my development of pbForth. That and the fact that you can (one day) host pbForth (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hello everyone, a while ago several people discussed decent debugging facilities for legOS, possibly in the form of remote gdb support. Did work in this avenue progress to something faintly usable already? If not, what are the key problems? Ciao, (...) (25 years ago, 16-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: (Failed) Getting LegOS 0.2.2 working on Windows
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Strange. I got my cygwin through the cygnus site, but as far as i can tell it's the same as the one on arthurdent. Mine comes from one of the mirrors on ftp://go.cygnus.com/...n/latest/. The file is called full.exe. (...) Make --version gives me: (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: (Failed) Getting LegOS 0.2.2 working on Windows
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It is quite possible that there is a versioning problem here. The cygwin on arthurdent is reasonably new (August?), but not exactly cutting edge. Peter provided me with links to everything except that, so I provided my own. If he'll provide me with (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: (Failed) Getting LegOS 0.2.2 working on Windows
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(...) I tried this on a NT 4 machine with little success. First of I got the message: chili : /legOS make for i in util lib boot demo ; do make -C $i || exit -1 ; done i was unexpected at this time. make: *** [all] Error 1 After replacing the make (...) (25 years ago, 15-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | A Hosting Offer (was Re: Getting LegOS 0.2.2 working on Windows)
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Thanks are due to Peter for the perserverance to get this thing working. On a related note, there has been quite a bit of legOS related development lately, and since I have (for the near future- a year and a half at least) unlimited bandwidth and (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Getting LegOS 0.2.2 working on Windows
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Instructions to get a working LegOS 0.2.2 on Windows are at: (URL) Much thanks is due to Luis Villa for editing and hosting. Peter (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: compiling 0.2.2 (legos.srec)
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(...) I've encountered the same problem. But it can be resolved, by adding a trailing / to the LEGOS_ROOT variable in Makefile.common Regards Carsten (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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(...) Great! Is there any documentation on that, more precisely how it is to be used? Has it been tested? I don't have access to my PC until the end of the year, so I can't check if there is anything in the distribution... :-( /Vlad (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: legOS applications
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(...) Yes, that's exactly how it works. Markus. (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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Hi! I might have misunderstood things, so please forgive if this is a question that should not have been asked... The "dynamic loading of programs and modules" feature in legOS 0.2.x - does it mean one can download the kernel once, and then the (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: LNP congestion avoidance improved
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Great! While it is too late for the class I'm helping out with, and it currently looks like it won't be offered again, I'm still looking forward to playing with this in the spring. Thanks so much for the time invested, Martin- Luis (...) ###...### (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | LNP congestion avoidance improved
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Hi there, on my way to a reliable LNP layer (and gdb, hopefully), i did some tests about how well LNP congestion avoidance works: I compiled 2 functionally identical programs, one on my linux-box, one on my RCX. Both of them setup an adressing (...) (25 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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firmdl3 doesn't work for me. Normally the rcx shows numbers up to 24 or 48, then counts back up very quickly, then after a while the program quits.There was only once where it might've worked. I also tried slow, but that stops right after mode=slow. (...) (25 years ago, 11-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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