Some of the more recent PC allow only USB keyboards and mice. My
wife's new laptop is that way. USB devices are assigned a comport.
Mike - W0TMW
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Dick Dievendorff wrote:
> Sorry. Just a guess.
>
>
>
> I'm surprised to hear that a keyboard or mouse occupies a COM port.
But I've never
> owned an e-machines computer. I think a number of modern motherboards
have chips that
> support COM1 and COM2 on the motherboard but some fail to wire up COM2
to the back of
> the machine.
>
>
>
> It would be easier if WriteLog offered access to other Com ports. I
can configure at
> least COM8-15 with my RocketPort card (an 8 serial port octopus) that
wants 8
> contiguous ports. It wants to be COM8-15, but none of my ham programs
go up that high.
>
>
>
> Sorry my guess didn't help your situation.
>
>
>
> 73 de Dick, K6KR
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> From: Mel Bach [mailto:mel.abachlll@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 6:51 AM
> To: Dick Dievendorff
> Subject: Re: [WriteLog] Ports
>
>
>
> The modem is removed and still no com 2. The machine doesn't even show
a com 2. I am
> told by E Machines that the mouse or keyboard occupies com 2 HMMMM
>
> On 7/3/07, Dick Dievendorff <dieven@msn.com> wrote:
>
> You may have a modem installed at COM2. Can you remove it?
>
> Dick, K6KR
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: writelog-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto: writelog-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Mel Bach
> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 5:13 PM
> To: writelog@contesting.com
> Subject: [WriteLog] Ports
>
> Having purchased a 4 port serial card I found my machine allows 1,3456 com
> ports. Writelog allows 1,2,3,4 good for SO2R. One can see that with 5 ports
> I am one short of 4. Sounds goofy doesn't it. Anyone using LPT for the cw
> keyboard portion? The program seems to allow it on this Win 98 machine. On
> the two XP machines the LPT is "greyed out" not allowed.
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