First post, by marinelayer
Hi all,
I've been trying to get an RS232 Wifi module working on my two ThinkPad 360C and 360CSEs with no luck. Im using BananaCom in DOS and it refuses to detect the modem and looking for ways I can troubleshoot.
There are a few things Im thinking:
1. Is the serial port even enabled? There is no semblance of an interactive BIOS on these machines, and their reference disks do not allow for configuring COM ports, etc.
2. BananaCom seems to only allow me to look at COM1. When I use the command to change the port
Alt+P
nothing happens, the screen just refreshes and the lower right still shows
COM1:9600
3. Ive tried changing the port speed to 1200
2. I've tried writing directly to the com ports a la
echo ATDT>COM1
and all I get is
Write fault error writing to device COM1
.
I've also tried Conex. When I try to change ports away from COM1 (like 2, 3 or 4) it complains saying that they are not connected or unusable, however it does not complain with COM1. Still when I try to run any commands with Conex to configure it:
AT+CONFIG
nothing is returned.
Any suggestions on next steps to troubleshoot would be greatly appreciated.