Ron:
1. Are you running under DOS or one of the Win versions?
2. Does your card come with DOS drivers?
3. What brand of PCMCIA card are you using
Tod, KOTO
p.s. Thank you very much for your effort on behalf of TR Log over the past
months.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ron D. Rossi [mailto:rrossi@btv.ibm.com]
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 10:42 AM
To: Tod - Minnesota
Subject: Re: FW: [Trlog] SETCOMM Using PCI Serial / LPT Cards with TRLog
(Yes youcan!)
There are PCMCIA serial port cards available. I use a single port version to
add an extra serial port. The USB solution of course would likely be
cheaper.
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>>>"Tod - Minnesota" said:
>
> Max:
>
> I am looking for a way run TRLog on a laptop that does not have a serial
> port. Naturally, the laptop does not have any PCI slots so a PCI Serial
card
> is not a solution. I am guessing that the only possible way to gain serial
> ports with such a laptop is to use a USB port input. The USB port would be
> connected to one of the USB to COM adapters that is on the market. The
> challenge is to find a way to deal with input and output to a USB port
when
> running a program under DOS. I have been told that USB initialization is
> very difficult --- even for folks who are making a living writing such
code.
> If true, that suggests running TRLog using a DOS operating system and
trying
> to access virtual COMM ports that are USB inputs may be out of the
question.
>
> One possible alternative is to find a way to run TRLog under WinXP, WinME
or
> Win98 in a "DOS window". In this case the operating system would
initialize
> the USB Port and the system would register a COMM port. The challenging
part
> would be to make that COMM port available to TRLog while it was running in
a
> 'DOS window'.
>
> Easy to say, but I am not aware of any software that does this now (runs a
> DOS program and lets it access/control USB -COMM ports. If we were able to
> achieve this, the useful life of TRLog would be prolonged -- at least for
> me.
>
> I wonder if you (or any other reflector reader) have any ideas on whether
> this might be possible and, if so, how to get there from here? Or, for
that
> matter, if code already exists that would allow one to do this.
>
> Tod, KOTO
>
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