This is how I managed to get NQC working for the Robotics Invention System on my laptop, running Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn, with the USB Lego Infra-red Tower. Anything with a black background should be executed in a terminal.
Plug in your USB IR Tower
sudo mkdir /dev/usb/
sudo ln -s /dev/legousbtower0 /dev/usb/lego0 (Edit: For the latest [...]
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