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??

[Brian]

I don't know if your card is like this but it might need the port to be mounted (mountlist under devs:dosdrivers or storage:dosdrivers) in order to work.

[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

[Brian]

Verify and make sure the mountlist is 100% correct.

Try "version your.device" and see if it returns version info or fails to find the device.

If it fails the card is most likely faulty. If it does return info it might still be faulty, check for damages on the card and dubble check orientations on removable cables.

Mind you if you use the card internaly in the A1200 without any extra power to the motherboard that (not enough power to the device) might also be the cause of failure.

[bigdan]

Check HyperCOM3  english manual (pdf)

Bootneck : you setup AExplorer with "hyperCOM3.device" in tooltype of AE icon ? Attention : case sensitivity, hypercom3.device won't works !

Please, give us versions of your hyperXXXX.device (hyperCOM3 and hyperPAR.device in DEVS:) and your vmcresource.library (in LIBS:).

Edit : added extras links

http://www.vmc.de/swr/hypercom298.lha (drivers)

In case of problem, you could try to contact http://www.vmc.de/eng_all.html

[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

[Doobrey]

Brian wrote:
Try "version your.device" and see if it returns version info or fails to find the device.

If it fails the card is most likely faulty.

That's only true for cards which have their drivers in their own ROM.
In the case of drivers in devs: (such as the hypercom) it just means either the file couldn't be found, or a version string couldn't be found in it (possibly corrupted file)

[Brian]

@Doobrey
When I wrote "Verify and make sure the mountlist is 100% correct." I should also have added and all files are installed correctly.

And when I wrote "returns version info" I ment either a version number or that the device didn't have version info available. Else it should say object not found.

Anyway as it does give version info that's not going to help us verify if the card is good/bad.

In most cases if the clockport is used and the card is turned the wrong way around things will go bad in a hurry and the risk of "bluesmoke" is likely... and most of all the machine usually doesn't start propperly. So if the machine starts fine then I'd say it's safe to assume the card is connected correctly to the otherboard.

Anyway, I'm out of ideas as I don't know the card well enough. :/