[drats_users] Failed to connect (after it was working)

[Arnold Harding]

I don't have any GPS connected, or GPS software running.  It's 
possible my printer or scanner USB acted up, but both are off.  My 
"camera card reader" is USB, but doesn't have any card in it, and acts 
like a memory device.

Yep, I was changing preferences to try to get my two computers to 
talk, the other having a 91AD and this one the 2820.  Oh well, maybe 
just a random glitch?
Arnold

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Smith" <dsmith at danplanet.com>
To: "Discussion of D-RATS" <drats_users at lists.danplanet.com>
Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 8:15 PM
Subject: Re: [drats_users] Failed to connect (after it was working)


> Hi Arnold,
>
>> Everything was going along just fine.  This computer is KQ6DI, and
>> my remote is called KQ6DI-L.  Things weren't perfect, but I was
>> playing when all of a sudden this computer had the message that it
>> was unable to open the comm port.  Odd since it was working, and I
>> wasn't touching this computer.  It appears that GPS software wanted
>> port 2, but that's where I have the radios attached.  Could that be
>> it?
>
> Which GPS software?  Something else you have on your system?
>
>>From your debug log:
>
>> Serial exception on connect: could not open port COM2: (5,
>> CreateFile', 'Access is denied.')
>
> It looks like you experienced this while exiting the preferences
> dialog, is that right?
>
> Each time you exit, it closes and re-opens the serial port in case 
> you
> have changed any of the relevant parameters.  The messages quoted
> above are indeed an indication that something opened COM2 which 
> caused
> D-RATS to be unable to re-open it.
>
> Another possible reason under windows could be that a USB adapter 
> was
> partially disconnected and then quickly reconnected to the system,
> causing it to show up on a different COM port than before.  I've 
> also
> seen some cheap USB adapters get a little flaky when a radio 
> transmits
> close by.
>
> -- 
> Dan Smith
> dsmith#danplanet.com, s/#/@/
> www.danplanet.com
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