hypercom3 / portplus a1200

[bootneck]

i have bought this off ebay installed the card and software,
i have adjusted my amiga explorer settings and connected it up to the new serial port it keeps saying "serial connection cannot be opened"

i have done the same with my parallel printer which comes up with "printer device cannot be opened"

any ideas??

[bootneck]

i have created the driver held in dos drivers, and have got a device driver loaded also as per instructions, im wondering weather the card is dead

[bootneck]

hyperCOM3.device = 2.98
hyperPAR.device = 2.54
vmcresource.library = 3.78

not sure where the red line on the serial and parallel cables should be pointing, currently the card is fixed directly onto the clock port, it will only go on one way round, due to the roms, it is not attached to the motherboard by cable but directly on top, ive tried the parrallel cable both ways round, having seen it both ways round from screenshots on the net, the serial cables have the red line to the right pointing towards the floppy adaptor