In article <b6vxm.17261$ym4.10...@text.news.virginmedia.com>, david- tay...@blueyonder.delete-this-bit.and-this-part.co.uk.invalid says... > > > Your confused!... > > > > How are you getting to those driver display details? > > > > In Win2k, I'm going in via the control panel, system, then device > > manager. > > > > In there, expand the "Ports (COM and LPT)" selection, select Com2 (the > > one with the GPS) right click, Properties, Driver, Driver details. > > Nothing about serialpps, or 4800bd for that matter in the port settings > > tab either.. > > The 4800 baud was from NTP's Applications Event log entry. > > > In the Driver File Details dialog, it just shows:- > > C:\WINNT\System32\DRIVERS\serenum.sys > > C:\WINNT\System32\DRIVERS\serial.sys > > Then you haven't full installed the serialpps.sys driver. There should be > a registry entry: > > HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Serial > ImagePath => system32\drivers\serialpps.sys > > HKLM is short for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > > and obviously C:\WINNT\System32\DRIVERS\ should contain the file > serialpps.sys > > > [] > > I don't doubt I might have not done something right, but at the moment > > I'm at a loss to decide what that might be? > > > > > Hmm... Poking arround... The only thing I can see, is the file is > > called "serialpps.sys" and the registry entry has "Serialpps.sys". > > Could that be the issue? (upper/lower case 'S' ?) > > Sounds unlikely to me, but worth making them match to be certain. > > > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Serial > > ImagePath REG_SZ system32\drivers\Serialpps.sys > > On XP I have the path as type REG_EXPAND_SZ, but I don't think that > matters if you don't have nay strings which need to be expanded. > > > The pps-api dll is in it's own folder:- > > C:\serialpps\serialpps-ppsapi-provider.dll
Thanks David. I'll have a dig about, probably something silly i've done, as always. Best Regards. Dave Baxter. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
