chrisNova777 wrote:

thanks for the link - i appreciate it but - windows 3.11 will see it? these things are usually XP compatible only […]
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Skyscraper wrote:

If nothing else works.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-Dual-9-Pin-Serial … =item2ed6e650d7

thanks for the link - i appreciate it
but - windows 3.11 will see it?
these things are usually XP compatible only

The card I linked has drivers for Windows 98 but not Windows 3.1 unfortunately but there must be some other PCI card with Windows 3.1 drivers.

When you get a cable with COM-port for your COM2 header its not 100% sure it will work if the cable is rather old, many 486 and Pentium boards had the rows inverted on the COM headers. I experienced this last week when i tried to get a mouse working on my Lucky Star LS486E, the first 3 cables I tried did not work but the 4th worked fine. Nothing bad seems to happen when connecting pin1 to pin2 and so on though, at least not with my Microsoft mouse.

so guys i did get around to attaching the com port header to com2 .. and ... COM2 WORKS!
COM1 is screwed.. doesnt work no matter what.. but at least com2 is working! i was able to start up logic audio 4.8 just fine with the dongle attached to com2 last night!