NetRS connection

Which terminal program are you using in your Windows 7 computer?

Does your computer have a built-in serial port or are you using a USB-to-serial adapter?

Are you following the procedure for establishing serial connection as detailed in the NetRS documentation? IIRC there is only one port on the NetRS that will work for the initial connection.

To follow up from a thread yesterday in which you mentioned having done some FS work in the Cody area, one time I was looking for stuff in the county clerk's office and came across some records bearing your name.

GB

Thanks for the help, I'll give the ideas a try.

Tom

Works fine here -

Gave it a try today using

- A Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit computer with a standard user account with User Account Control (UAC) set to most-restrictive "Default - Always notify me when:" setting.

- An IOGear GUC232A USB-to-serial adapter

- The "poor-boy" (and probably in violation of the EULA) version of HyperTerminal for Windows 7 - simply copied hypertrm.exe and hypertrm.dll from a Windows XP computer, put them in the same directory on a USB flash drive, and ran as a portable application

- A straight-through serial-extension cable connected between the USB-to-serial adapter and Port 1 (Service) on the front of the NetRS

- A crossover ethernet cable between a specified-IP-address ethernet port on the computer and the multiport device on the NetRS

Following the directions provided in the NetRS GPS Receiver User Guide -

Was able to easily capture the boot-up process via HyperTerminal and the serial port, could have used HyperTerminal to make any necessary IP settings in the NetRS.

When the boot-up process finished, entered the IP address of the NetRS in the Internet Explorer address bar and made contact with the web console of the NetRS as expected. This is where you will make your other configuration settings. Make sure you save your configuration file when done, and keep a copy of that file someplace off the NetRS as well.

So Windows 7 is no obstacle in this procedure.

This was my first try running HyperTerminal on Windows 7 as described above, glad to know that it works.

One very handy thing about HyperTerminal is that it lets you know in no uncertain terms if another program or process has control of the serial port you are trying to use in HyperTerminal.

GB

Works fine here -

Thanks Glenn, I'm going to try it right now.

Tom

Works fine here -

It works fine here too. Thanks to your efforts. I did it exactly the way you said and it worked. Thanks again for the help.

Tom