QSE-100 and a modem

[mdonovan]

I bought two of the Quatech units, and I'm starting to get things hooked up to them. I have an Elk M1EZ8 hooked to it and working, and now I want to hook an old modem I have so I can get caller id info in the VM that I'm using as a test HA server. It's an old US Robotics modem.

I hooked it up to the 100D, but I can't get a response from it using hyperterm. I'm using it on a Vista machine (I copied hyperterm from an xp machine).

So, has anyone tried hooking a modem to your PC? And if you got it to work, did you have to do anything special?

Matt

 

[sic0048]

Have you confirmed that hyperterm works on your Vista machine? I'd be a little surprised if that is all it took. I'd suspect that a lot of the internal programming is different.

You might need to google for a hypertem alternative.

 

[mdonovan]

Have you confirmed that hyperterm works on your Vista machine? I'd be a little surprised if that is all it took. I'd suspect that a lot of the internal programming is different.

You might need to google for a hypertem alternative.

I did Google it and that's where I found that if you copy the hyperterm exe and a dll to Vista you can use it on Vista. Just to be certain though I'm going to look for another terminal app to try with.

I did find if you go into Device Manager and select the modem properties, that dialog box has a button to query the modem. I get no response there either. I think the modem is still good. It's been "retired" for a while now, but when it went into retirement it was working.

Matt

 

[electron]

Try Putty, it's portable, and supports serial communications. Are you using the Quatech driver, or something like HW VSP (and a raw TCP session)?

 

[mdonovan]

Try Putty, it's portable, and supports serial communications. Are you using the Quatech driver, or something like HW VSP (and a raw TCP session)?

I'm using the Vista drivers from Quatech. I'll give Putty a try. I wasn't using Raw tcp, I left it at normal. I'll give that a try as well.

Matt