[NTLK] OMP serial connection problems

[William Maloney]

By the way, are there any Messagepad service manuals online?

On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 9:09 AM, William Maloney <firedoorus at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Whoa! Thanks for the advice.
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> Tony, I DO have a multimeter. I am on a long trip right now, so much of my
> hardware is at home. But I can certainly use that on my return. The
> attached document was great, but it seems like it is dedicated to the
> interconnect port for Newton 2000/2100 machines. Any idea which pin to
> connected to which would yield a proper voltage test? Bit of a n00b here.
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> Andrei, I'll try the loopback test and get back to you.
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> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 9:16 PM, William Maloney <firedoorus at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> 32Bit Vista on an IntelCore2Duo.
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>> So, if this IS a hardware error, do you have any advice?
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>> Obviously trying out a different USB-serial adapter is a start. The
>> adapter I have is really hard to find drivers online for, so I don't even
>> know if the drivers we downloaded are for this exact model. They made a
>> couple versions of these Gigaware adapters. Windows says it is working,
>> but...
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>> I know there is only so much that can realistically be done on the OMP
>> side, but if you have any ideas, do let me know.
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>> Maybe checking it out in the diagnostic mode?
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>> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 4:11 PM, William Maloney <firedoorus at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> I can't seem to get it to talk over HyperTerminal again. Just gave it a
>>> few goes. Will try again later.
>>>
>>> So far as running NTK in Vista, which option should I choose? I was not
>>> able to install any packages via there, nor install the Toolkit App. No
>>> evidence of any sort of connection. Newton simply says it could not get a
>>> response from anything.
>>>
>>> Should I be mindful of the serial port settings? All the different
>>> options?
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>>> Will try restarting the host system too and retrying options in Virtual
>>> PC.
>>>
>>> Ugh...
>>>
>>> When I tried connecting back home on the Macintosh, I went through a
>>> similar frustration to this- trying both the modem and the printer port,
>>> restarting, etc etc.
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