OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical > Communication
COM Port Setup
christech:
Another thing I noticed this time around.. receiving input works great, but inputting text was an issue, it wanted to put an asterisk in between each character when typing so that this:
show ip int brief
looked like this:
s*h*o*w* * i*p* * i*n*t* * b*r*i*e*f*
when typing. I tried playing around with the "mode com1" settings but haven't found a solution. Lucky, ZoC has a text input field where I can type text and send it. I purchased a PCI-e serial card and will test it with ArcaOS later this week.
christech:
Installed the PCIe serial port card and added the device entry for pscom in config.sys and I get a trap error every time I try to access the com port. Seems like it’s being recognized though. I opened a ticket on mantis. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Andi B.:
--- Quote ---looked like this:
s*h*o*w* * i*p* * i*n*t* * b*r*i*e*f*
--- End quote ---
Never seen such before. What terminal setting do you have in ZOC? Do you have a DBSC system? What does 'copy anytextfile.txt com1:' produce on the other end?
I've different more than one USB->RS232 converters running here without such strange problems though.
Pete:
Hi cristech
If you still have the usbcom.sys line in config.sys the pscom.sys line needs to be above/before that line.
Regards
Pete
christech:
Hey Pete, that's the first thing I thought of, but it still TRAP'd. I did get it working though. I did some Google-fu and came across an on blondeguy.com about serial ports. When adding the device statement to config.sys you add some fake port definitions. My motherboard does not have serial port headers, so now I have COM1-4. :D
--- Code: ---DEVICE=C:\OS2\BOOT\PSCOM.SYS /V /F (1,3F8,4) (2,2F8,3)
--- End code ---
and what I get now is 2 fake COM1 and COM2 ports and my PCIe card took over COM3 and COM4.
I used the Startech PCIe card here: https://www.startech.com/en-us/cards-adapters/pex2s553
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