[WriteLog] Ports

[Dick Dievendorff]

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 at 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 at msn.com> wrote:

You may have a modem installed at COM2.  Can you remove it?

Dick, K6KR


-----Original Message-----
From: writelog-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto: writelog-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Mel Bach
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2007 5:13 PM
To: writelog at 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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