Teraterm replacement

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Hey folks,

I have a LPC2148 project running that should do UART over USB as a COM emulator. It boots OK and appears in windows device manager as a “USB CDC serial port emulation (COM5)”. However TeraTerm is not listing COM5. I have a USB/Serial dongle working, so I know it’s not I’ve rebooted, searched the web, and looked at other forums.

Has anyone encountered this before? Does anyone have a fix for this? Does anyone know of another good terminal program I can use to test this? I see a lot of terminal programs, but few of them support serial connections anymore.

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What is the version of your teraterm?

Laurent

http://www.amontec.com

3

The ‘About’ box says:

Tera Term Pro

Version 2.3

Mar 10 1998

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In your TTERMPRO directory (where Tera Term is installed), there is a file named TERATERM.INI. In that file is a setting for ‘maximum com port’:

; Max serial port number

MaxComPort=40

As you can see, mine is set to 40, as I have a lot of serial ports :slight_smile: This lets Tera Term list more than the standard 4 ports.

Good luck!

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we use realterm. An open source. look a sf.net. Work relatively well with an automatic serials port dectection.

Jonathan

6

That did it.

I had searched through the menu’s for an option like that and didn’t see one, so I assumed that XP had some kind of problem. Thanks for pointing out that fix.

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SuperTerm V2.14

http://www.mpfreezone.com/downloads/downloads.html

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I just came across a freely available replacement for Teraterm named ‘ClearTerminal’. I liked it. It’s sweet and easy to use.

It could be found at the following link

http://www.clearconnex.com/content/clearterminal

Have fun :slight_smile: 8)