----- Original Message -----
From: "myke predko" <myke@PASSPORT.CA>

> Hi Kathy,
>
> Looking through what you're seeing I think you have left the default Flow
> Control to "Hardware".

Nope

> One trick that I always use when setting up RS-232 connections is to short
> "DSR" to "DTR" and "RTS" to "CTS".  This will "fool" the hardware flow
> control into recognizing that the other device is fat, dumb and ready to
> communicate.

done in the breakout box.

> Good luck!

It works as I said with a new chip, I am wondering why I get the errors with
the old chip.  as it does not seem possible that this chip could produce
these errors.

Regards,

Kat.


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