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Re: USB IR tower support in Lunix
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lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos
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Thu, 2 Jan 2003 15:34:34 GMT
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On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 04:20:11PM +0100, Florian Schmidt wrote:
> hi,
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> i've tried to post to the forum, but the news-server doens't accept my posting,
> dont know why...
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> i've also managed to get USB working under linux with brickos.
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> dll and firmdl works.
Good!
> i also got lnpd to work with the linux-usb-device-file .. (i had to
> implement the select-syscall)...
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> i can make a few patches if you are interessted.
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> i would sent a mail to the newsgroup if i could...
I posted via the web-interface, I guess one needs a javascript browser
for that. I like the navigation of the webinterface within threads.
> i had a usb patch to legOS wich worked with 0.2.6 from fs.net.
> i modified this patch to apply to brickos-0.2.6.09
> with this i had a working firmdl3 and dll.
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> then i wanted to use lnpd, but the lnpd uses select an the usb-
> device files doesn't support the select call.
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> i implemented the select-syscall an now lnp works. dll and firmdl are still
> working too :))
Ah, very good! Does it also support the high-speed mode ?
> now i can use the simpler dll delivered with lnpd to upload my programs using
> the lnpd.
Sounds like a good setup. Can you send me your buildenvironment
(tarball), source etc, so that I can get it working ?
On the long-term, I get the impression legos needs a good maintainer
to integrate all these patches and tools. I'd like to get my LegoCam
working as well, and write some lnpd software to give feedback to
the rcx.
Mark-Jan
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Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: USB IR tower support in Lunix
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| Hi, I got the USB IR-tower to work under linux using the same patch Florian used. I also sent an updated patch that applies to 0.2.6.09 to the original author of the patch. However I have to caution that the said patch only works with UHCI hubs that (...) (22 years ago, 4-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| | Re: USB IR tower support in Lunix
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| (...) I just got the USB tower to work. At least, for downloading the BrickOS.srec kernel. I think I have to hack some more today to find a way to let 'dll' work with the /dev/tower0 device. I used the devicedriver at (URL) (22 years ago, 2-Jan-03, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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