C-Gate will not see COM2 under XP

[Steve Tester]

Hi,

I had C-Gate working on my server & after upgrading from w2k to xp & re-installing C-Gate I get a 911 event code no such port. Checking the hardware via XP com2 is there & working. 911 event code is -can't open control interface-.
Any ideas what might be rong ? :confused:

Thanks...

[Richo]

I get a 911 event code no such port. Checking the hardware via XP com2 is there & working. 911 event code is -can't open control interface-.Any ideas what might be rong ?

Don't know if it matters or not, but I noticed your build of CGate seems old. Laters builds are available for download from the website.

http://www.clipsal.com/cis/downloads.php3#CGate

[Newman]

Steve

a) Make sure that the COM port is not used by some other device.

b) The current build of C-Gate is 1099 so I suggest that you update to this version.

c) Check that the javax.comm.properties file is in your: C:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.2_05\lib directory. If not you may need to re-install C-Gate.

[Steve Tester]

Steve

a) Make sure that the COM port is not used by some other device.

b) The current build of C-Gate is 1099 so I suggest that you update to this version.

c) Check that the javax.comm.properties file is in your: C:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.2_05\lib directory. If not you may need to re-install C-Gate.

Hi Newman,

I upgraded C-Gate & looked for the above file which is not there, I re-installed again over the top & still not there, any ideas :confused:

[JackD]

I can reproduce that fault and create the same error message by changing the name of javax.comm.properties in C:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.2_05\lib to "Blah.txt". Then if I change it back to javax.comm.properties it comes good again. Are you SURE that you have that file in that directory? (Assuming you are using the java runtime environment 1.4.2_05. You can tell by typing "java -version" in a command window)

[JackD]

It just occurred to me that if you cancelled out of the JRE installer during installation then you would get javax.comm.properties out by itself in an otherwise empty directory tree at C:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.2_05\lib. If you find that the version of jre you are running is not 1.4.2_05 then that could well create a problem. Anyhow, just search your hard drive for javax.comm.properties and you should be able to spot the problem.

[znelbok]

Ahh

This explains the problem I had. Java was already isntaleld, so I skipped it during the cgate install (it asked me if I wanted to uninstall java though) and I could not get it working until cgate did the install itself

Mick