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From: dddau@acs3.acs.ucalgary.ca (Doug Dau)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Kermit 3.14 under Win95 problem
Date: 10 Oct 1995 17:37:45 GMT
Organization: The University of Calgary
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Mike Smith (mike@post.queensu.ca) wrote:
:>In article <1995Oct7.144551.63053@cc.usu.edu>, jrd@cc.usu.edu (Joe Doupnik) writes:
:>|> In article <453dpf$cie@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>, fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz) writes:
:>|> > In article <1995Oct4.102543@earth.medcolpa.edu>,
:>|> > <schoffstall@earth.medcolpa.edu> wrote:
:>|> >>I'm running Kermit 3.14 under Win95. It runs fine when you shut
:>|> >>down Win95 and run a DOS session, but it won't run in a DOS box as a
:>|> >>Win95 process, apparently because it can't detect the port. After it
:>|> >>executes MSCUSTOM.INI, I get the message:
:>|> >>
:>|> >>?Warning: unknown hardware for port. Using the Bios as BIOS1
:>|> >>Unimplemented speed
:>|> >>?Cannot use RTS/CTS on non-UART parts
:>|> -----------
:>|> I have a suggestion for those afflicted with the above message.
:>|> Open the Windows Control Panel, choose Ports, tell Windows the IRQ and
:>|> port address of your COMx ports, restart Windows. Brave souls may wish
:>|> to further configure Windows to cope with 16550A UARTs, according to
:>|> whatever MS Windows instructions you happen to have.
:>|> I ran quick tests of MSK under WFW 3.11 here, and using serial
:>|> ports was clean every time. I had done the above.
:>... snip ...
:>Joe may be on to something here. I use Windows for Workgroups 3.11 and
:>I have an external modem on COM2. I find that I can consistently force
:>the unknown hardware warning when I:
:> - turn the modem off
:> - start Windows
:> - turn the modem on
:> - start Kermit
:>There may be other scenarios that cause the error. I don't know because
:>I put a macro in my mscustom.ini file that tests for the failure and
:>sleeps 2 seconds and reissues the set port command. On my PC this always
:>clears the error so I've stopped wondering about it.
That's consistent with my experience under Win 3.1/3.11. The other thing
I found under my configuration (external USR Sportster 14.4K) is that if
the modem is switched on BEFORE I power up the PC or switched on AFTER I
launch MSK then the port (com2 in my case) does seem to be consistently
recognized.
:>However, I followed Joe's suggestion and used the Windows Control Panel
:>Ports item to explicitly set the COM1 and COM2 values in my system.ini.
:>Before doing this, the file had no values for these two ports but did
:>have entries for COM3 and COM4 (which do not in fact exist). After
:>exiting and restarting Windows I still got the unknown hardware warning.
:>I then exited Windows and edited system.ini to delete the bogus entries
:>for COM3 and COM4. Rerunning the test described above I did not get the
:>warning.
I'd done this a long while ago when I originally had the problem but
"training" the control pannel really didn't affect behavior for me
(although I've left things set up there properly since the "tidyness"
makes me feel better).
--
Doug Dau Internet: dddau@acs.ucalgary.ca
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