[K12OSN] legousbtower driver

[Gary Frederick]

Seek and ye shall find
  clues...

I finally noticed I was getting a legousbtower in
$ lsmod
so I looked closer at /dev and found /dev/legousbtower0
  :-D a clue!!!

This is after trying knoppix and SuSE...
  and reading lots of stuff from google
  and sleeping after getting frustrated...

I can now download leJos to the LEGO RCX. Next I see if I can get
anything to work.

This was a chance to look at udev and at differences between
distributions - woo hoo.

Gary

On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 14:58 -0500, Gary Frederick wrote:
> Howdy
> 
> I'm continuing to set up the lab for the workshop for kids and now I
> need to get the leJos robotics software working. I have had leJos
> working on Linux in the past but am having problems (sigh)
> 
> 
> > If you are using an usb tower, you are encouraged to use at least
> > kernel version 2.6.7 or later - it contains the legousbtower driver
> > already.
> > 
> >    1. If the tower is plugged in yet, plug it out
> >    2. Log in as root
> >    3. call rm -f /dev/usb/legousbtower0
> >    4. call mknod --mode=a=rw /dev/usb/legousbtower0 c 180 160
> 
> and I get...
> 
> [root at server ggf]# mknod --mode=a=rw /dev/usb/legousbtower0 c 180 160
> mknod: `/dev/usb/legousbtower0': No such file or directory
> 
> 
> I think k12ltsp knows the tower is there when I plug it in. The IR
> light comes on for a bit so something is happening...
> 
> What do I need to do to get /dev/usb/legousbtower0?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Gary
> 
> 
> 
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