[Lazarus] SdpoSerial port open problems

[Bo Berglund]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:30:20 +0000, Paulo Costa <paco at fe.up.pt> wrote:

>On 09/02/2011 23:12, Bo Berglund wrote:
>
>> I have tested the program now in the original development PC (a VMWare
>> virtual XP-Pro machine) and my Win7X64 laptop and as long as I use a
>> physical com port all seems to work OK. In the virtual machine it
>> means mapping the laptop docking station COM1 into the VM. THen it
>> works just fine.
>>
>> But when I involve a USB connected serial port (which I have to do if
>> I undock my laptop) I get all kinds of strange errors, basically no
>> communications at all! I have two different ones but both are
>> problematic (ATEN RS232USB and SUNIX 4-port ComHub).
>>
>> Do you know of any problems related to SynaSer via USB connected RS232
>> adapters on Windows7 or WindowsXP?
>>
>> Right now I am moving the Lazarus application around to different
>> computers (real and virtual) and different COM ports (real or USB
>> connected) to try to figure out why it is so hard making it always
>> work. And this is when I found that I tried ports that were already
>> reserved for the virtual machine or actually unplugged without
>> SdpoSerial saying anything about it....
>
>Please test your ports with:
>
>http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~paco//AVR-IO-M16/M16_PC.zip
>
>and see if the problem also appears with this application.
>
>Paulo Costa

Some questions:

1) How do I set the baudrate with this application?

2) What means "Server" and "Client" in the RS232 context?

3) Is there some form of use instruction too?

I don't really understand it....

-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden