J. Crit Harley, MD, C.Ht. wrote: >2. The parallel port connection is not working at all. Some setting >must be wrong. > > * I did connect up my printer and it printed a perfect test page. > * Computer says my printer is on LPT3and the I/O are DF00, DF07 > and DE00, DE07. > o I have choices on computer for Never allow interupts, > allow any interupts and try not to allow interupts. > * The SDR software says the LPT address is 378. I have tried > the other options and none work. > > >
The symptom you described here (for a separate card) is exactly like the problem I had. If you go to setup (in all recent versions, I believe it is setup->hardware config), the default LPT port is 378. This setting is active whenever "USB" is not checked. Of course, USB should not be checked when you're using the PCI card. You can use either one at different times (I have done it), you just have to get the settings right. If you do the obvious thing and click on the port addresses drop down, you'll get a limited number of port addresses. In 1.6.2, it shows 278, 378, 3BC, B800, and BC00. Not the right numbers for your PCI card? Me neither. Mine is 10d0. In your case, I'd try out DE00 first and if that didn't work, DF00. How to cope? Well, it turns out, that some like other kinds of menu drop-downs, you can simply _type in the proper value_. When you do this, it should work at once on receive at the very least. (If this ability to type an actual value in at the drop down isn't in the manual, this little feature should be highlighted -- it's a good little bit of code, but IME, most drop downs don't let you add in values not on the list). My PCI card printer port's properties (under device manager) also currently says "never use an interrupt" which I believe was the default. Whether there is an advantage to changing this, I don't know. But, this card has worked for me with these settings over many releases of the software. Larry WO0Z _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
