On Thursday, "Jerry J. Haumberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
] My notebook computer says I have one com port available, COM1; the desktop
] says I have both COM1 and COM2. (Under Win98 their's COM4, which is an
] infrared port, but I'm using a PC DOS 2000 partition here.) I'm certain my
] connections and cables are correct -- it just seems the "old and the new"
] are not compatible, for whatever reason. The desktop has a motherboard
] that's from 1991 (a 486DX2 at 50Mhz), and I suspect that a 1999 notebook
] serial port may not recognize an older 25-pin connection, although the IBM
] manual doesn't give me any reason to believe otherwise. I've tried all of
] your suggestions; there simply isn't any response.
The 25 pin and 9 pin are almost definately EXACTLY THE SAME. The only
difference is the connector. IF you was to open the case you'd
probably see both connectors connecting to the motherboard or card
with the same connector. ie you could swap COM1 and COM2 over if you
wanted. [I did this once, just to see if it would work and it did]
I never had problems using interlnk with my 486SX laptop and other
computers I have [386DX running DR-DOS 7.02, 286 running MS-DOS 5].
But a friend's P166 could not work at all at first, even copying the
files over from this 'puter. This could be FAT32's problem, since it
worked using FAT16. But I'm not sure If I'm remembering correctly
what the setup was.
This is the Mircosoft's version but I suspect there are few [if any]
differences between the two. I once connected my MS-DOS interlnk.exe
with PC-DOS intersvr so they must be close.
] I did try configuring it under a direct serial cable connection with Win98,
] and it tries to configure a connection through LPT1... so, it looks like a
] parallel port is the only certain next step to take. I suppose I'll just
] *have* to take that serial cable and adaptor back to Office Depot tomorrow
] and exchange it for a parallel cable. I'll simply forego the direct use of a
] printer from my notebook when connected with INTERLNK.
To use W9x direct cable connection needs W9x on both ends of the
cable. AFAIK there's no way around that. You'll have to boot into DOS
mode to use intersvr.
] At any rate, it's probably worth the occasional inconvenience to switch
] cables around when I want to make any major file transfers, etc..
The parallel port can apparently handle 300KB/sec, whereas the
maximum speed a COM port is 11.5KB/sec [115200bps] So it would be a
lot faster. :)
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