W800RF32A USB: Their USB -> Serial adapter cable or Keyspan? - Spoke too soon?

[Charlie Pendleton]

On Jan 20, 2005, at 8:40 PM, michael wrote:

> Charlie said :
>> this instance it may be working better and something else is wrong?
>>
>> This is just an X-10 lamp module with a night light plugged into it.
>> Regardless of how far I dim it, I get 3 of those error sets in a row.
>> I have it set up as dimmable and Simple.  If I uncheck dimmable, on 
>> and
>> off work without a hitch.
>
> Hello Charlie,
>
> Aside from the errors in the log, does the lamp get changed ?
No, only when i make it un-dimmable it will then turn off and on but it 
doesn't seem to like anything in between.
>
> Also, I think I may have fixed the double-error thing in the
> log... you're getting one error properly logged, and then
> a 'bad message' logged for that same error.  (one net error)
>
> you might try downloading the latest beta and at least
> (I hope) the log would be cleaner for those errors.
I will  work on this over the weekend and report back.
>
> The Bad Message from the Mac error is a serious thing.
> It simply means that the LynX found a command from the
> Mac that it did not understand.
>
> This is most likely caused by a failure of the handshaking,
> and some bytes get dropped in the overrun condition...leaving
> the LynX with a fragment to announce.
>
> I could be wrong, but I still feel that this is a matter of
> 'handshakes'...
I guess my computer doesn't know that its not polite to shake hands ;-)

Charlie-
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> michael
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