[Dx4win] LPT1 with XP

Fri, 22 Aug 2003 07:22:00 -0400

It's actually a directory called %systemroot% which resolves to wherever
you installed your operating system...

If it still doesn't work... It's hard to say...

The LPT drivers under XP/NT systems are quite hardware specific... They
will generally work with LPT ports on the motherboard... But third party
add-on cards may not work. If you have more than one LPT port... The
port on the MB... Usually LPT1... should work...

I had that problem... My second LPT port is a Lava card... It wouldn't
work.... So I moved my printer to LPT2 and used LPT1 for the radio...
This worked fine.

Ultimately, you may want to consider moving CW/PTT to a COM port as the
API for these cards is standard under NT/XP... This is what I did.

If you must use more than one LPT card for control... Check on the
reflector for anyone who is using 3rd party cards successfully... I
think some 3rd party LPT ports do work.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ted Huddle [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: August 21, 2003 23:28
To: [email protected]; 'Tom Branch'
Subject: RE: [Dx4win] LPT1 with XP

I did not have a WinNT directory but rather`Windows. Put file in
system32\drivers subdirectory with no luck. Already had tye file there
anyway.  Any other suggestions?

Thanks,  Ted

-----Original Message-----
From: Mel [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 7:51 PM
To: 'Tom Branch'; 'Ted Huddle'; 'dX4WIN'
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...

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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