Don,

At the start of your init routine, you cleared the GIE bit.  This bit
needs to be set along with the TXIE bit.  The UART won't be able to
generate an interrupt unless TXIE, GIE and PEIE (which you did set) bits
are set.  Hope this helps.  BTW, TXIE is the transmit interrupt enable.

Kelly Kohls, N5TLE
Dallas, TX
Email:  kkohls@juno.com  OR  n5tle@qsl.net  OR n5tle@arrl.net
Homepage:  http://www.qsl.net/n5tle/

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