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Unread 10-11-2011, 21:53
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Question Re: CAN tutorial

If I'm reading this correctly, the firmware must be updated prior to assigning a number? My team is currently experimenting with CAN on one of our off-season robots, and we've gotten as far as getting the LED on the black jaguar to be a solid yellow (don't ask why we've waited this long to even get this far!) while connected through 6P6C-DB9 cable to a laptop, and BDC-COMM is saying that it is connected, however, when we attempt to assign a number to the Jaguar (so far, just the black jaguar, and it does have the proper terminator) it gives us the countdown, we press the user button in time, it flashes yellow once, and goes back to solid yellow (meaning that it's being assigned to ID 1, when we're trying to do ID 2). So, is our issue that we need to update firmware first, or is it something else?
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