I purchased a USB to parallel adaptor and found out that it is not recognized by the dongle and after doing some searching found a PCI printer port card that the address can be manually set. Do any of you computer techs know what the legacy settings were on the old ISA ports? I remember 278, 378 and IRQ 7.
The dongle works on all my old computers that I have in storage that has a physical printer port, all the way back to WIN 98, WIN 2000 and an old XP laptop. Is there a way to go into device manager and see what address these old ports are using so that I can set the new card on my WIN 7 computer so that the Star*Net dongle will recognize it?
Thanks,
Edward Killough, NCPLS
This may be completely of no help, but I just inspected the properties of the parallel port where my Star*Net V.6 dongle resides on my desktop system and about all I see from SYSTEM>HARDWARE>DEVICE MANAGER>PORTS>LPT1 is:
I/O Range 03F8 - 03FF
I/O Range 0778 - 077F
Kent McMillan, post: 369345, member: 3 wrote: This may be completely of no help, but I just inspected the properties of the parallel port where my Star*Net V.6 dongle resides on my desktop system and about all I see from SYSTEM>HARDWARE>DEVICE MANAGER>PORTS>LPT1 is:
I/O Range 03F8 - 03FF
I/O Range 0778 - 077F
I have four choices on the printer port card that I can set:
1) system assigned
2) 378 (Legacy ISA)
3) 278 (Legacy ISA)
4) 3BC (Legacy ISA)
I have sent a request to both MicroSurvey and the company that made the dongle asking for this information, but thought that someone on here might remember the settings.
Thanks,
Edward Killough, NCPLS
ekillo, post: 369336, member: 773 wrote: I purchased a USB to parallel adaptor and found out that it is not recognized by the dongle and after doing some searching found a PCI printer port card that the address can be manually set. Do any of you computer techs know what the legacy settings were on the old ISA ports? I remember 278, 378 and IRQ 7.
The dongle works on all my old computers that I have in storage that has a physical printer port, all the way back to WIN 98, WIN 2000 and an old XP laptop. Is there a way to go into device manager and see what address these old ports are using so that I can set the new card on my WIN 7 computer so that the Star*Net dongle will recognize it?Thanks,
Edward Killough, NCPLS
This might just happen automatically in windows 7. Have you tried? I'd set the dip switches to "system assigned" and see what happens. It shouldn't be an issue with the dongle or anything else connected to the port. Those "resources" have to do with between the port and the motherboard.
ekillo, post: 369374, member: 773 wrote: I have four choices on the printer port card that I can set:
1) system assigned
2) 378 (Legacy ISA)
3) 278 (Legacy ISA)
4) 3BC (Legacy ISA)
If I had to wing it, I'd go with "system assigned". I'm running my old Star*Net V.6 dongle on a Dell Optiplex 755 desktop with XP Pro that I bought refurbished. The dongle worked fine with no special accomodation to the settings on the parallel port.
Kent McMillan, post: 369379, member: 3 wrote: If I had to wing it, I'd go with "system assigned". I'm running my old Star*Net V.6 dongle on a Dell Optiplex 755 desktop with XP Pro that I bought refurbished. The dongle worked fine with no special accomodation to the settings on the parallel port.
It works fine on all my old computers also, I have been trying to get it to work on my main computer so that I can put the others back in storage.
rfc, post: 369376, member: 8882 wrote: This might just happen automatically in windows 7. Have you tried? I'd set the dip switches to "system assigned" and see what happens. It shouldn't be an issue with the dongle or anything else connected to the port. Those "resources" have to do with between the port and the motherboard.
I will work my way through the settings, I was guessing that it was looking for a particular I/O address.
ekillo, post: 369406, member: 773 wrote: I will work my way through the settings, I was guessing that it was looking for a particular I/O address.
The 'puter should find the hardware. Use the Windows 7 "Add New Hardware Wizard" first, to see if it will find the card and configure the system to talk with it. One easy way to get to it is to type "hdwwiz" in the "Start", "Search" box. From there, just let it find the port and set it up. Once it does, you can click "check settings manually" (or something like that), to see what it's done.
rfc, post: 369458, member: 8882 wrote: The 'puter should find the hardware. Use the Windows 7 "Add New Hardware Wizard" first, to see if it will find the card and configure the system to talk with it. One easy way to get to it is to type "hdwwiz" in the "Start", "Search" box. From there, just let it find the port and set it up. Once it does, you can click "check settings manually" (or something like that), to see what it's done.
The computer has no trouble finding the hardware and says it is functioning properly, but Star*Net is programmed to look at a specific address to see if the dongle is there. The problem I am having is Star*Net is not seeing the dongle, not that the port is not working as a printer port, the system is talking with it.
Thanks
ekillo, post: 369473, member: 773 wrote: The computer has no trouble finding the hardware and says it is functioning properly, but Star*Net is programmed to look at a specific address to see if the dongle is there. The problem I am having is Star*Net is not seeing the dongle, not that the port is not working as a printer port, the system is talking with it.
Thanks
Just out of curiosity, what port number has the system assigned to your dongle that Star*Net doesn't recognize?
Kent McMillan, post: 369480, member: 3 wrote: Just out of curiosity, what port number has the system assigned to your dongle that Star*Net doesn't recognize?
Kent,
When using system assigned, the computer used address 3BC, I have also tried 378 and next I will be trying 278.
Ed
