Looks like I have found the problem. The 8000 works fine under XP HE with a
different serial port. Problem was a classic IRQ conflict. That should be
easy to solve..... I hope.
Jon K1US
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Harder" <jon@praxisworks.org>
To: <WriteLog@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 2:07 PM
Subject: [WriteLog ]Dumb Terminal w/ RttyRite under XP ??
> Has anybody been successful in interfacing a classic TU, like the ST-8000,
> to a standard serial port under Windows XP or 2K?
>
> Mine works just fine under Win98SE (dual boot. ) I run MMTTY in one
> RttyRite window, and a second window for the 8000. The serial port accepts
> its output happily under SE. That's been just great, and I'll likely go
> with SE for WPX.
>
> BUT, now that I've at last gotten XP running nicely in a dual boot
> partition, with clean CW and well-behaved MMTTY plug-in under XP, I'm
stuck
> not reading my prized $3000 "DumbTerminal's " output when selected under
> TU Type for the second RttyRitewindow..
>
> Anybody know a fix for this or other classic TUs? [I've already tried
> editing the INI file line under ports to read Com2=45,n,5,1,p ] I
> understand that Win2K/XP is super-strict about the way UARTs operate, just
> as it refuses LPT port keying without a special driver..
>
> I'll post a summary of private responses -- if there's an answer.... ?
>
> GL to all in WPX.
>
> Jon K1US
>
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