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PCMCIA serial cards: DOS driver
Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 9:19 pm
by videonerd
Ok, I got myself an "SKD" serial PCMCIA card. They're rampant on eBay.
Unfortunately, it doesn't come with DOS drivers. Now what do I do?
I need the card since the Thinkpad doesn't have any serial ports. And my Samsung P10 (read: Best Buy VPR Matrix 120-B4) serial port works with Maxtracs, but not Jedi radios for some reason. Neither does an older Pentium 75mHz Thinkpad. It either says cannot acquire buzy line error, or it fails after reading one or two blocks.
Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 9:45 pm
by HLA
go to the website for the card and download the drivers. i use a ibm thinkpad 233mhz and it does jedi's, x9000, sabers and about everything else so the speed isn't a big issue. the only ones i havn't been able to do is a p200 and mt1000. if it's failing after reading a couple blocks it sounds like you are running it under a dos screen.
Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 9:59 pm
by AEC
I would check your serial cable, pin 5 on the DB-9 to pin 22 on the DB-25 might be missing, and should be there.
Also, if you have IR cpapbility on your machine, disable the IR port and IRQ, that causes read errors and 'Can't acquire busy line' errors as well.
Jedis should NOT be a problem for 75 Mhz. machines, and I have a PII, 133 that I used on both Sabers, Systems models and Jedi radios of both the HT1000, and the MT/MTS2000 series.....no problems, BUT, I had to disable the IR capability and the IRQ associated with that in order for it to function.
I also had to set the COM port to COM2 instead of the 'normal' '1' setting as the COM1 port happened to be the IR port, but it interfered with both ports regardless.
I loaded DOS6.22, but RUN the RSS under just the 'C:' prompt and I restart the laptop using windows DOS4.2 which is odd, but it works on everything I need to program, GM300s as well.
Of course, it will not do Maxtracs, they always show integer/divide overflow errors, so that's moot.