Turn a modem into serial port? use a modem as serial port?
Turn a modem into serial port? use a modem as serial port?
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Hi,
I am developing a product which communicates through an installation terminal program running at a notebook computer. The product uses its UART / serial port to communicate, the problem is that nowadays most notebooks don't have serial port. My question is that, I know most notebooks now have built-in internal modems, can I turn that modem into a serial port? or can I use it as a serial port? Thanks guys.
Jinghong
I am developing a product which communicates through an installation terminal program running at a notebook computer. The product uses its UART / serial port to communicate, the problem is that nowadays most notebooks don't have serial port. My question is that, I know most notebooks now have built-in internal modems, can I turn that modem into a serial port? or can I use it as a serial port? Thanks guys.
Jinghong





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RE: Turn a modem into serial port? use a modem as serial port?
what level are you working at? are you developing the product or selling it?
a little more info would be helpful in order to be helpful...
regards
killa
RE: Turn a modem into serial port? use a modem as serial port?
Regards,
Andy
RE: Turn a modem into serial port? use a modem as serial port?
Killa: I am not trying to send data through modem. I need to send data through a serial port, I want to turn PC's modem port into a serial port just like other serial ports that a PC may have. We are developing products, and our products need to get information from PC through a serial port connection. I think Andy might be right and I cannot bypass the modem and use the serial port without hardware change.
But for a while I do hope that there will be some softare/firmware code that I can apply to the modem to disable its modem specific functions and feed the data it gets from the serial port right through to its RJ11 port.
RE: Turn a modem into serial port? use a modem as serial port?
Therefore, there would never be a means of connect the serial UART output to the modem output under normal circumstances.
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RE: Turn a modem into serial port? use a modem as serial port?
regards, -john-