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Re: Has anyone used lnpd succesfully?
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Date: 
Fri, 28 Apr 2000 08:20:29 GMT
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Yes. I have used it successfully, though not always...

In my case it seems to be a problem with the uart 16550A. It does not switch
to low lattency mode correctly making the tower blind to the RCX. I
circumvented the problem setting the UART type as 16540.

I first tried to do it by changing lnpd code, but it provoked the continuous
collision problem. After a lot of testing, I found that leaving lnpd as is
(initializing the uart as 16550A and setting it to low lattency) and
executing the instruction

# setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart 16450 low_latency

(running as root)

after lnpd has started, the problem vanished.

Sometimes the collisions appeared after some time of use, but a sequence of
instructions like

# setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart 16550A ^low_latency
# setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart 16450 low_latency

fixed the problem...

I worked all this a couple of months ago and now I have almost no time to
play with it so I don't know if Martin Cornelius (we were in contact to try
to fix this) have been working on it... (Ping!! Martin?? Still Alive? ;-)

Hope it works for you...

Toni

"Steve morris" <smorris@nexen.com> wrote in message
news:3908BAB9.F1BE7C7E@nexen.com...
Steve morris wrote:

Steve Morris wrote:

I'm trying to use lnpd. First I'm trying to get the test app working

Are there known conditions where lnpd works and doesn't work? Are there
versions of LegOS
which support it better?

Mostly I wish I had at least one report of success that would suggest that
there is hope at the end
of my tunnel. I cannot do my application without the ability to collect • data
from the RCX.

Given that there appears to be no one interested in answering questions • about
lnpd, should
I give up on it and write direct lnp code or will I have the same problems
there? Basically what
I want to know is if people actually communicate with the RCX under LegOS. • I
suppose
I should really did into the code and figure it out myself.  It's only • 1500
lines of source.

At least this has given me plenty of time to rebuild my robot. It gets • lighter
and stronger each
rebuild.





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(...) Of course, but also currently not very available. But i still would like to fix this problem, or at least find the reason. Sporadically, i'm working or better say thinking about an enhanced version of lnpd, but i think this doesn't make much (...) (25 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)

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  Has anyone used lnpd succesfully?
 
(...) Are there known conditions where lnpd works and doesn't work? Are there versions of LegOS which support it better? Mostly I wish I had at least one report of success that would suggest that there is hope at the end of my tunnel. I cannot do my (...) (25 years ago, 27-Apr-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)

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