On Sun, 24 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Dear me, all those quotes from Andreas and me do get rather confusing,
> so to try and consolidate all the confusion I'm quoting your post in
> full here and am going to try to respond to your questions as best as I
> can figure. ready? :-)
The main problem with the quotes is that the AOL mailer is not only
refusing to put in line breaks, but it's doing something that causes the
justification feature in Pine to screw up with multilevel quotes.
> First off, I confused things in my post by mistakenly referring to GVP
> I/O prefs as GVP Serial Prefs. These are two seperate pieces of software
> which come bundled with both the standalone GVP I/O Extender and the
> version I have that caused all the problems, the integrated version only
> to be found on the GVP G-Force 040 extender for the A2000. OK. So, no
> one knows why, but the GVP SERIAL Prefs (which sets the baud rate, or is
> supposed to) program will only work in a video mode and less than
> 8-color Workbench. So if you are a gfx card owner using, say, a 16-bit
> VGA mode for your Workbench, the program won't open and will bog
> everything down until a reboot. To make it even more confusing, AFAIK
> this flaw is only to be found in the version GVP Serial Prefs program
> that came with the G-Force, NOT the I/O Extender.
OK, but if that's just the equivalent of the Workbench Serial Preferences
for the GVP, then I wouldn't worry about it, since that's only for use
with really dumb applications that don't know how to set parameters on
their own (e.g. NewCLI AUX:). After all, you don't need to set Serial
Preferences in order to use the native serial with Miami.
> Alright, so we're done with the Serial Prefs. The GVP I/O Prefs program,
> which is used to redirect program calls from the internal Amiga serial
> and parallel ports to the faster ones on the G-Force, DOES open and
> function with no problems. My deal with Miami that Andreas confirmed was
> that Miami could not talk to the fast serial port on the G-Force using
> its direct serial driver, "gvpser.device." Instead, I had to tell Miami
> to talk to the Amiga's native serial driver, "serial.device," but since
> GVP I/O Prefs was running, Miami's call was redirected to the desired
> device, the fast serial port on the G-Force. Result? It works! MiamiDX
It sounds like Miami cares about the driver name for some reason. The
only thing I know of that does that has to do with the automatic setting
for EOFMODE, which you can override. Did you try that?
It's also possible that there's some funny interaction between the
NSDPatch stuff that's in the 3.5 SetPatch and the redirection patch.
Is it the same driver for both flavors of GVP serial?
If they're different, do they have the same name?
If they're the same name, do you have to use different unit numbers
depending on which kind of GVP serial?
> can now dial out through my modem and communicate with my ISP. The only
> problem that happens is after I sign off and hangup, the "TR" (terminal
> ready) light on the modem stays on, and if I want to connect a second
> time, I have to turn the modem off and on again or else I get an error.
See my post in another thread about this.
> Genesis has the advantage of being able to talk to the "gvpser.device"
> directly, and has no problems resetting after hangup. Sadly it has no
> SSL module for it, not to mention no upgrades until Vapor resolves its
> legal dispute with the programmer. But Andreas said that in his case,
> Genesis didn't work either. My best guess is that this is caused by
> idiosyncracies of the circuitry on our respective boards.
It's more likely that there's some difference you haven't found yet.
Fred Wright
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