igotu2gpx

Access to com ports greater than 9 does not work on Windows

Bug #521627 reported by Michael Hofmann
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
igotu2gpx
Fix Committed
High
Michael Hofmann
igotu2gpx 0.4.0

Bug Description

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363858(VS.85).aspx:
> To specify a COM port number greater than 9, use the following syntax: "\\.\COM10". This syntax works for all port numbers and hardware that allows COM port numbers to be specified.

Michael Hofmann (mh21)
Changed in igotu2gpx:
assignee: nobody → Michael Hofmann (mh21)
importance: Undecided → High
milestone: none → 0.4.0
status: New → Confirmed
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piecodi (pietro-codiglione) wrote :

I have about 100 i-gotu connected by USB Hub cascade. I cannot open com more than 9.

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Michael Hofmann (mh21) wrote :

Ok, I have no idea if it works with 100 gps trackers :-), but the fix is now commit to trunk (but untested).

Changed in igotu2gpx:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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Michael Hofmann (mh21) wrote :

A trunk snapshot with this fix included compiled for Win32 can be found at http://mh21.de/temp/debug-installed.7z.

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piecodi (pietro-codiglione) wrote :

Thanks Michael,

now the port is recognized also over 9. But if the igotu is connect by Hub i retrieve first error code -1 (device responded with error code -1) and if I retry execute igotu2gpx (for info) it say that is unable to send data to the device:

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