Courtney...I can't believe your using an old machine with ISA slots..so I don't understand your comment. With PCI slots and modern drivers you can have no end to the number of devices which use the same IRQ. I have a machine with 10 com ports and they all use the same IRQ, plus for good measure the sound card also uses the same IRQ.
The IRQ shortage is a thing of the past with modern machines. Ron N5IN ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "EDWARD KIMBLE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 9:06 AM Subject: Re: [DXBase] Supported PCMCIA/USB Serial Ports > The basic rule of not having IRQ conflicts still applies no matter what kind > of serial device you end up with, pci, usb to serial, etc... In your > example, your have two devices using IRQ9. No wonder it doesn't work. > Find another IRQ to assign to the comport that you have your TNC using and > you will probably clear up the problem. > > A lot of folks seem to be of the impression that just because they can get > six or eight or whatever number of comports by using various devices, that > they can actually use all of them at the same time. That's never been true > in Windows and while you can get away with this in some cases, most of the > time you cannot. On our machine here, we have an Officejet printer and a > CDROM writer. We cannot use both of them at the same time even though they > are on different ports. We have to disable one of them when we want to use > the other. > > Regards, > Courtney > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "EDWARD KIMBLE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 9:52 AM > Subject: Re: [DXBase] Supported PCMCIA/USB Serial Ports > > > > I have a simular problem. I have a com port PCI card, com3 and com4 using > > IRQ 9. DXbase will not talk to the TNC connected to com4. DXbase listens > > and displays what the TNC spits out but you can't send commands from the > PC > > keyboard to the TNC, like the connect command. I use com1 and com2 for > > other things and if DXbase can't use my com3 and com4 I will not give up > the > > functions that are on com1 and com2. The TNC will just have to go! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >From: "Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >To: "Rob Heath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[email protected]> > > >Subject: Re: [DXBase] Supported PCMCIA/USB Serial Ports > > >Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 09:25:56 -0500 > > > > > >Rob, > > > > > >The internal CW module of DXbase uses a legacy driver that requires a > > >standard serial port. But, everything else in DXbase including the TNC > > >interface uses standard Windows stuff. There is no code in DXbase that > > >cares what kind of serial port you have or how you got it. Assuming your > > >derived serial port from USB hub is creating a standard serial port > > >interface, and, assuming you have DXbase user options for TNC set > > >correctly, > > >I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't work. > > > > > >Regards, > > >Courtney > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > > >From: "Rob Heath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >To: <[email protected]> > > >Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 5:57 AM > > >Subject: [DXBase] Supported PCMCIA/USB Serial Ports > > > > > > > > > > Has anyone found a supported USB or PCMCIA serial port? I have a > Targus > > >USB > > > > expansion port on my laptop which works with the TNC for all the > > > > applications that I have tried except DX-Base. > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > > STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* > > > > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com > > > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > > > To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: > > > > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > >DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com > > >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > >To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: > > >http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. > > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail > > > > > _______________________________________________ > DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase >
