LNPD -- can't get it to work.

Hello. I'm new to robotics and recently bought a Mindstorms RCX kit that I found at a good price (about 80$, new! a local store was selling things they had had on stock for a long time). The first thing I did was to look for something that would allow me to interoperate between linux and my new kit, and program in C. I found brickOS, installed it, and it works great, and I love it. However, today, I found a problem. I'm trying to control the brick through my computer, and the best thing I found for that appears to LNP (LegOS Network Protocol, I believe). So, I installed lnpd and liblnp in my linux computer. However, it's giving me an error, and lnpd doesn't start! The log file is as follows:

0:Info > created lock file /var/lock/LCK..ttyUSB0 9:Fatal > Invalid argument. ioctl[TIOCGSERIAL](),rcxtty.c,line 154

I'm using a serial IR tower, connected to my computer through a serial to USB cable. I have Ubuntu linux, 64 bit. I've tried both compiling from source and installing the package in the repositories, and both gave me the same error. I've tried starting lnpd with the --nolock option, and same error happened. After searching thoroughly through the web, the best explanation I could find to what is happening is that the USB to serial driver may not support the TIOCGSERIAL (I found a patch that solved that). However, my computer is fully updated, and the patch I found is for an older version of the linux kernel. Anyone knows what I should do?

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Hello. I'm new to robotics and recently bought a Mindstorms RCX kit that I found at a good price (about 80$, new! a local store was selling things they had had on stock for a long time). The first thing I did was to look for something that would allow me to interoperate between linux and my new kit, and program in C. I found brickOS, installed it, and it works great, and I love it. However, today, I found a problem. I'm trying to control the brick through my computer, and the best thing I found for that appears to LNP (LegOS Network Protocol, I believe). So, I installed lnpd and liblnp in my linux computer. However, it's giving me an error, and lnpd doesn't start! The log file is as follows:

0:Info > created lock file /var/lock/LCK..ttyUSB0 9:Fatal > Invalid argument. ioctl[TIOCGSERIAL](),rcxtty.c,line 154

I'm using a serial IR tower, connected to my computer through a serial to USB cable. I have Ubuntu linux, 64 bit. I've tried both compiling from source and installing the package in the repositories, and both gave me the same error. I've tried starting lnpd with the --nolock option, and same error happened. After searching thoroughly through the web, the best explanation I could find to what is happening is that the USB to serial driver may not support the TIOCGSERIAL (I found a patch that solved that). However, my computer is fully updated, and the patch I found is for an older version of the linux kernel. Anyone knows what I should do?

------------------------------------- Thank you for your time. Rodrigo

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