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Re: failure in communicaton between RCX & IR Tower
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lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab
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Mon, 1 Dec 2003 18:08:53 GMT
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Nathan,
I have done this trouble shooting step, ie. changing the timing.
Unfortunately, it did not work.
But, thank you though.
Well, the a W2Kpro virtual machine approach did not work either... I guess
my only alternative will be getting the win2kpro installed on the box...
ugh!
--
Elizabeth Mabrey
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nathan Colyer" <ncoly1@eq.edu.au>
To: <emabrey@storming-robots.com>
Cc: <lugnet.robotics.rcx.robolab@lugnet.com>
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 7:16 AM
Subject: Re: failure in communicaton between RCX & IR Tower
> G'day Elizabeth - thanks for your reply, and advice re Toshiba laptops. • As
> the posts from lugnet.robotics indicate, you are not alone with the USB
> Tower problem. This was just posted to that list, thought it may be • useful
> - might avoid the need for a windows update.
>
> Hope its all working by now!
> Nathan
> > Hi Rob,
> >
> > I have a Toshiba Laptop with a USB 2.0 and I bought a USB Tower at • Bricklink
> > because my Laptop doesn't have a serial output (I think that they do not • make
> > laptops with it anymore). At my first try my computer didn't lock up, but • I
> > couldn't use the fast firmware download and BrickCC and NQC couldn't • transmit
> > some programs to my RCX (It could transmit some tiny programs, but it • gave an
> > error when I tried to transmit the 9_rotation.nqc example program from • brickCC).
> > I solved the problem going to the LEGO USB Tower at the control panel,
> > swithing to the Advanced Tab and setting the Read Timeout (1st Byte) to • 300
> > msec.
> > Now, everything seems to work fine. I just would like to understand why • this
> > change fixes my problem?
> >
> > Hope that this helps,
> >
> > Ildefonso.
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