[Dx4win] LPT1 with XP

Thu, 21 Aug 2003 17:00:03 -0700

Mel is right.  That is all I had to do to get my machine to work perfect
with DX4WIN and Win XP

Rod WC7N

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mel" <[email protected]>
To: "'dX4WIN'" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 4:55 PM
Subject: RE: [Dx4win] LPT1 with XP

> This is not correct!!!
>
> The driver for XP is different for XP/NT than Win 98... You do NOT need
> Userport... Tom is probably thinking of Writelog... Which does need
> Userport...
>
> Which is not to say that Userport won't work... It's just not necessary.
>
> Also, ignore suggestions to re-install... That's also unnecessary...
> Though it also works...
>
> >From the DX4Win documentation (the last place anybody thinks of looking
> ;-):
>
> for Win/95/98:
>  Windows\System\Vichw11.vxd
>
> for Win/NT/2000/XP:
>  WinNT\System32\Divers\Vichw11.sys
>
> I've attached the driver to save you the trouble of extracting it...
>
> Just put it in the indicated directory... You should probably delete
> vichw11.vxd if it's on your system...
>
> (Attachment removed for reflector)
>
> 73...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
> On Behalf Of Tom Branch
> Sent: August 21, 2003 18:02
> To: Ted Huddle; dX4WIN
> Subject: Re: [Dx4win] LPT1 with XP
>
>
> Ted,
>
> XP cannot address the port directly.  Download and install USERPORT and
> all will be well!
>
> http://www.embeddedtronics.com/design&ideas.html
>
> 73 de Tom, K4NR
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ted Huddle" <[email protected]>
> To: "dX4WIN" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 9:16 PM
> Subject: [Dx4win] LPT1 with XP
>
>
> > I know I have seen this on the reflector before but cannot find it.  I
> > recently moved to XP and now get an error message "Can't find LPT port
> for
> > keying". I have the XP install done OK with the port driver.   Any
> > suggestions?
>
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