Re: MUSCLE ToWiToKo Battery Charger Program

1999-02-16 Thread Thomas Kohn
Hi, you will have to set RTS AND DTR high. This is not the default value. I'm sorry that I cannot help in more detail, as I know only a little about linux programming. Best regards, Thomas Kohn TOWITOKO electronics GmbH David Corcoran wrote: > > Hello, > > You should be able to charge up th

Re: MUSCLE ToWiToKo Battery Charger Program

1999-02-16 Thread Matthias Gaertner
> I left my reader plugged in overnight and it still doesn't work. I would > guess the charger uses some particular rs232 signal for power, and the > program asserts that signal. When this happens and the reader never returns anything, one obvious reason may be that you're using a DB25-DB9 con

Re: MUSCLE ToWiToKo Battery Charger Program

1999-02-16 Thread David Corcoran
Hello, You should be able to charge up the NIMH battery on the Towitoko by simply opening the port on which the reader resides. This will assert the RTS signal which I believe is used to charge up the battery. So a simple: open("/dev/ttyS0", O_RDWR) should work. You may have to change some va

Re: MUSCLE ToWiToKo Battery Charger Program

1999-02-16 Thread Jim Rees
Q: Why would this be required? Q: How is it done? I left my reader plugged in overnight and it still doesn't work. I would guess the charger uses some particular rs232 signal for power, and the program asserts that signal. *** Linux

MUSCLE ToWiToKo Battery Charger Program

1999-02-16 Thread Matthias Gaertner
Hello, a while ago, someone mentioned the idea for a program to 'charge' the battery in the cable of a ToWiToKo Chipdrive Micro. Unfortunately, I lost this mail. Q: Why would this be required? Q: How is it done? [Q: Is this mailing list archived somewhere?] Thank you, Matthias Gärtner Concord