Access ComPorts directly !!

[GSM Coolhawk]

Hi

Found this inetresting snippet of info, cause I had problems with a small project of mine with a PIC and I found this, it allows you to access comports directly !! Don't know if this will work on WinXP ?? Somebody can maybe try it out and report

Regards


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Hi all,
Been beating my brain for a couple of days on this. Writing some 'c' code to program a pic microcontroller.
Windows was blocking my output on com2. Here's how I fixed it, nowhere on the internet have I found this
solution.

1. rename the msports.inf in \windows\inf\msports.inf to msportssave.inf
2. rename the serial.vxd in \windows\system\serial.vxd to serialsave.vxd
3. Go into control panel and delete the serial under port system/device manager/ports
4. Reboot, windows will find the ports but won't be able to find a driver, just continue and the ports will be added
to other devices in system/device manager.
5. You can now access the serial ports directly
6 I restored com1 to windows status by renaming the msports.inf file and serial.vxd to original names. Deleted
com1 and rebooted, windows finds com1 and loads the windows drivers and I can still use com2 for my program.
YEEEHAWWWW

Hope this helps others
James Luttrell
JTL-Consulting
[email protected]***.org

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[ADAMRYANREST]

Hello M8's

@GSM Coolhawk

Good solution m8, laptop users can do the same method by just disableing all infa red ports/devices thus rebooting and skipping the point driver location. then all ports are accesable and can be mapped to user spec.

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[Lupo]

anyone tried this program to get direct serial port access in win xp? http://www.direct-io.com/Direct-IO/directio.exe