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- From: peraino@gmuvax2.gmu.edu
- Subject: need help with serial interface problem, please!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.141042.297@gmuvax2.gmu.edu>
- Keywords: rs-232 serial interface problem help!
- Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax Va.
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 14:10:42 GMT
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- Help! I need an rs-232 guru;
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- I have a serial interfacing problem. I bought a receiver which has
- a serial interface in the back for computer control. I want to be able
- to control it from my HP-48 calculator, which has a serial interface.
- The receiver has the following specs:
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- 9600 baud, even parity, 7 data bits 1 start, 1 stop, half duplex, and
- RTS/CTS hardware handshaking. Considered DCE. None of this setup is
- changeable. The pinout is as follows:
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- 1- Scan feedback; +5 volts = receiver unsquelched
- 2- Rx data
- 3- Tx data
- 4- DTE ready
- 5- Signal ground
- 6- DCE ready
- 7- RTS
- 8- CTS
- 9- Shield ground
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- The calculator can do 9600 baud, even parity, full duplex. The problem is,
- it only has Tx Rx and ground. It can do xon/xoff handshaking, but not
- hardware handshaking. The calculator is DTE, and cannot be changed to
- half duplex.
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- On the receiver, I have tried shorting DTE/DCE, and the receiver thinks
- it's connected. Then, I tried shorting RTS/CTS and running the Tx/Rx
- from the calc straight through. This does not work. On the calculator,
- when I try to send a command which requires a response, I get parity errors,
- and a few characters of garbage. If I tell the calc to ignore parity errors,
- I do not even get the expected number of characters back from the receiver.
- I think the problem lies in the fact that the calculator does not do RTS/CTS,
- and I cannot fake it out by shorting them, but I don't know enough about
- hardware handshaking to be sure. It seems I need some sort of protocol
- converter, which would talk to the calculator "normally" with no handshaking,
- and pass the stuff back and forth to the receiver with RTS/CTS. Is this true,
- and what would it cost?
-
- I can connect the receiver to my pc, run procomm terminal software, and
- type commands manually. But this ONLY will work if I tell procomm to use
- RTS/CTS handshaking. If I short RTS/CTS on the receiver when connected to the
- pc, this will not work. All of this leads me to believe that I cannot
- get the calculator to talk to the receiver without RTS/CTS for real.
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- Is the kind of converter I'm talking about practical/necessary, or am I
- just not doing something right? Please respond to me directly. Thank you
- very much.
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- peraino@gmuvax.gmu.edu
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