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From: Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: K95 problems on serial ports on COMPAQ Presario 71xx
Date: 8 May 1997 16:00:09 -0400
Organization: Columbia University
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Our news server has been busted for about a week -- we can receive but not
post. I'll try a roundabout method here, let's see if it works...
In article <33719cfd.9573761@news.inet.it> you write:
: I have met a problem with Kermit-95 and serial ports of COMPAQ
: Presario 71xx product line.
:
: I get so many errors when dialing numbers or during login that I
: hardly get the connection. It seems that not all characters passed to
: serial port by K95 are sent to modem.
:
: <stuff deleted>
:
: The only way to make it work was installing a supplemental serial port
: card disabling the integrated one.
:
: None of these problems when using MS-Kermit 3.14 under WINDOWS 3.1 or
: with COMPAQ DESKPRO, PROLINEA CONTURA, ARMADA series.
It sounds like there is a hardware problem in the UART used in the
Presario 71xx that is tickled by the API calls that are used by K95.
We discovered that versions of K95 prior to 1.1.11 had problems accessing
certain virtual serial ports due to the use of the TransmitCommChar()
API call. So in 1.1.11 we removed the use of that call. It is possible
that TransmitCommChar() does not work properly with the Presario 71xx
computer UART.
If you are using version 1.1.11, please send e-mail to
kermit-support@columbia.edu so that we may attempt to discover the
cause of the problem.
Patches to K95 may be found on the Web site at
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95patch.html.
--
Jeffrey Altman * Sr.Software Designer * Kermit-95 for Win32 and OS/2
The Kermit Project * Columbia University
612 West 115th St #716 * New York, NY * 10025 * (212) 854-1344
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95.html * kermit-support@columbia.edu