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 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Email: janina at rednote.net Phone: +1 (202) 408-8175 Director, Technology Research and Development American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) http://www.afb.org Chair, Accessibility Work Group Free Standards Group http://a11y.org
