Re: CM17A Firecracker Software

[Charles Sullivan <cwsulliv@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 18:54:57 +0000, Donald Morley wrote:

> I am running Vista home edition.  The palm pad never shows on the screen.  I
> do get a setup screen, when I click on it nothing happens.  Sometimes I get
> a rundll32 error

Most likely the software is not compatible with Vista, and possibly
not compatible with Win XP SP2 either.  I recall I had it working on
a desktop under Win XP SP1 with an actual RS232 serial port, but
just tried it on a borrowed Win XP SP2 laptop with a USB->Serial
adapter.  It managed to send one signal, then locked up and both
the firecracker and x10net processes had to be killed in the task
manager before it would work again (for one more shot).

A Google search for CM17A yielded several hits for freeware/shareware
programs for Windows.  Perhaps one of these would work.