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Subject: Re: ASYN Communication through windows serial port (via USB)
From: Josh Stein <[email protected]>
To: Mark Rivers <[email protected]>
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:36:15 -0600
A little update for the community, as Mark and I took a bit off-line while poking about.

It turns out the error is indeed in the "GetCommConfig" function call; which is done even during a "SetCommConfig" to populate the data structures of the port.

I added a different function call ("GetCommProperties") to determine if any calls to these (Microsoft) functions would succeed - and sure enough, that one works without error (see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa363259%28v=vs.85%29.aspx). However the values returned seem to not correlate with the definition for the COMMPROP structure (see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa363189%28v=vs.85%29.aspx) so there may be a hint in that (I'm still investigating).

Finally I want to point out that I am compiling on MinGW whereas Mark compiles with Microsoft VC++

Any ideas welcome.

--J

On 3/4/12 4:52 PM, Mark Rivers wrote:
Josh,

If you look at the code in drvAsynSerialPortWin32::setOption you'll see that it first does GetCommConfig() to read the existing settings, modifies one parameter, and then calls SetCommConfig.

We need to figure out if the error is actually being returned in GetCommConfig or in SetCommConfig. There was previously a typo in the error messages in setOption, so it was printing "GetCommConfig" in either case. Please get the latest version from the SVN repository (committed today):

https://svn.aps.anl.gov/epics/asyn/trunk/asyn/drvAsynSerial

Or apply this patch from release R4-18:

Index: drvAsynSerialPortWin32.c
===================================================================
--- drvAsynSerialPortWin32.c    (revision 1900)
+++ drvAsynSerialPortWin32.c    (working copy)
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@
      if (ret == 0) {
          error = GetLastError();
          epicsSnprintf(pasynUser->errorMessage,pasynUser->errorMessageSize,
-                            "%s error calling GetCommConfig %d", tty->serialDeviceName, error);
+                            "%s error calling SetCommConfig %d", tty->serialDeviceName, error);
          return asynError;
      }
      return asynSuccess;

Then we can know which function is actually returning the error.

Mark


________________________________________
From: S. Stein [[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2012 3:35 PM
To: Mark Rivers
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: ASYN Communication through windows serial port (via USB)

Any attempt to change a parameter does indeed result with the same error.

Is there some way to request a list of the parameters which the device understands?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Rivers"<[email protected]>
To: "Josh Stein"<[email protected]>, [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, March 4, 2012 12:03:58 PM
Subject: RE: ASYN Communication through windows serial port (via USB)

Josh,

It is possible that the problem is not actually with the baud rate setting, but with some other parameter. The way that the Windows SetCommConfig function works is that a large structure that defines all of the serial port parameters is passed to SetCommConfig. It is possible that the default value of some other parameter is set incorrectly for this port, so when you change the baud rate it is actually the value of some other parameter that is causing the error.

What happens if you try to change the data bits, stop bits, parity, etc. first? Do you get the same error for them?

Mark

________________________________________
From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Josh Stein [[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 4:03 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: ASYN Communication through windows serial port (via USB)

Boy how I hate bringing this stuff up on a Friday...

I have a need to communicate to a serial based instrument off of a
windows laptop. I have the latest ASYN build, which supports COM port
mapping for windows. Like any 'modern' laptop, this machine does not
have any built in serial connections, so I have a USB adapter which maps
COM3 to a serial port. I can talk to the device via a terminal program
on machine.

I execute the following on a softIOC running on the windows box:

drvAsynSerialPortConfigure("L0","COM3",0,0,0,0)
asynSetOption("L0",0,"baud","115200")

setOption failed COM3 error calling GetCommConfig 87


Note the setOption failed error; this is (apparently) preventing me from
setting the baud rate to 115.2K (which, of course, is what the external
device needs). (As an aside, I contacted Mark Rivers and he pointed out
the typo in the error message - it should read: "...error calling
SetCommConfig...")

I know this adapter handles that baud rate, as I can set it via a
terminal program and communicate to my external device.

Any ideas?






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