Jonathan McDowell wrote:
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 11:42:52PM +0000, David Given wrote:
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 22:48, mark wrote: [...]
I checked the serial port wiring, and thats Ok.
Could it be because I've not registered the phone yet?
Huh... been there, done that, spent *ages* figuring it out. The main crux of the matter is: it's *not* a serial port! To be accurate, it's a serial port without the RS232 line level converter, which means it generates 0V/5V instead of -12V/+12V. This means that your PC serial port will not recognise it.
Mark isn't clear about which device he has.
My E3 doesn't require any level shifter to connect it to a PC serial port.
I believe the Emailer Plus does, but I don't own one of those.
J.
Evening all,
As you say I forgot to mention that the model I have is an e3.
I read in the archives that I wouldn't need a line level convertor so thats the initial path that I took.
I've spent some time today reading the archives a bit more and it seems that it might be a baud rate/software issue issue.
I will continue tonight and see how far I get.
I also read the scary part which Cliff said about a new version with encryption and noticed that my machine is marked as version 2 in the setup screen, hoping I haven't got a more of a challenge than I thought.
In all other respects it matches what I have read on the web sites.
Oh well, keeps me off the streets :)
Mark.