Re: problmes w/ $4 serial link... please help.

Re: problmes w/ $4 serial link... please help.

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• Subject: Re: problmes w/ $4 serial link... please help.
• From: Daniel Ramsbrock <d_ramsbrock@DDACCESS.COM>
• Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 14:23:49 -0500
• Comments: To: lnguyen@COMPUSNET.COMREMOVE
• Organization: Princess Anne High School
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• Reply-To: Daniel Ramsbrock <d_ramsbrock@DDACCESS.COM>

I have messed with the $4 link quite a bit, and I have found out that
even though CAL may think the link is on COM2, it is actually on COM1
(the same thing happened to me with COM2 and COM3)--Just connect the link
to COM1, set CAL to COM2, and try to send and receive files. It should
work.

Daniel

lnguyen@COMPUSNET.COMREMOVE wrote:

> I'm trying to make a serial link.  I downloaded tilink from
> ticalc.org, and in the readme, it says the white/red connections
> should give a reading of -.7v... i used a multimeter to check and its
> ok.  The readme also says it will go to 4.7v when a link prog is
> running.  That doesn't happen w/ me.  So i tried the "cal" program.
> when i checked serial ports, it detected a com2 as ok, but that has
> nothing connected to it (not even the modem, i took it out just to
> make sure).  When i try com1 (where the link is) the LED will go off,
> and it won't turn on until i reboot.  All this is done testing in dos
> mode.  Can anyone help me?  I would really appriciate it.  Thanks.

• problmes w/ $4 serial link... please help.
• From: lnguyen@COMPUSNET.COMREMOVE

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