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Trying to get serial ports to work

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First post, by lunchbox

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Hello all,

Trying to get dos box to use my serial ports but it's not working so well. I did read the tutorial on how to use your modem and serial ports. It got me pointed in the right direction but I could still use some advice.

In the config file I have:

serial1=directserial realport:com1 startbps:9600 parity:n bytesize:8 stopbits:1 irq:4

which are the correct settings according to the device manager for com1

When I go to use the serial port I get several lines of: BIOS INT 14 PORT0: NOTHING RECEIVED. And something about RX overflow or something.

Any ideas? Thanks. LB

By the way, I'm using Win2K Pro and the device attached to the serial port is a brake press at work. An old DOS program is used to load programs on it.

Reply 1 of 2, by h-a-l-9000

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You're doing it right (though you could omit the startbps parity ...).
Probably a problem in the dosbox serial port part. I'm currently improving it, if you want to test go to DirectSerial patch

(the file there probably doesn't fix your problem but it isn't the latest either.)

1+1=10

Reply 2 of 2, by lunchbox

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Thanks for the help but could you be a little more specific about the file you're talking about? I'm not sure which one you mean in the other thread.

LB

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