Any LEGO MINDSTORM NXT users here?

Knapp magick.crow at gmail.com
Sat Mar 29 00:42:55 UTC 2008


On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 1:34 AM, Ronnie Tucker
<ronnie at ronnietucker.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>  Just got me a LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT kit from eBay (£130, good price I
>  thought) but I'll be damned if I can get my Kubuntu Gutsy to recognise
>  the NXT brick via USB.
>
>  I've followed the instructions from the NXC site to put a rules and perm
>  file onto my PC but when I plug the brick (switched off) into the USB of
>  the PC and turn on the brick I get nothing detected.
>
>  I've got LiNXT downloaded too but when I try to run it I get:
>
>  Can't locate Device/USB.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl
>  /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5
>  /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8
>  /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at ./linxt line 8.
>  BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./linxt line 8.
>
>  Yet I do have Perl installed.
>
>  Any tips on how to get my brick detected via USB? As I'm ready to make
>  the Terminator storyline a reality  ;P
>
>  Thanks!
>
>  --
>  Ronnie Tucker

Did come with drivers and software? Might try wine?
-- 
Douglas E Knapp
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