can't find serial port

[Janina Sajka]

I don't think that will do anything useful.

Essentially, you want to get these settings correct if you need to make
sense of the output. But, any kind of noise/garbage chars would tell us
the port is working. In other words, getting the mode wrong won't keep
it from working, it will just keep it from making sense.

I don't know if you can no longer simply copy to a port, now that access
to ports is managed more securely by the OS. I'm sorry, I don't do
Windows these days. So, my information may be old.

I think you need to look at your bios and make certain that the port is
active. It's possible some other device is assigned com1, something
other than the db9 port. I see that on laptops all the time.


Glenn Ervin at Home writes:
> From: "Glenn Ervin at Home" <GlennErvin at cableone.net>
> 
> You might also try the following in a DOS box or at the DOS prompt:
> mode com1 9600,n,8,1,,
> That is the typical port settings.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kyrath. (AKA Rob)" <kyrath at cox.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 7:20 PM
> Subject: Re: can't find serial port
> 
> 
> OK, it looks like the port might be disabled.  The copy command came back
> with 1 file copied, but there was no output.
> is it possible that the port is ph
> 
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