Dear List I have to help the logmate engineer to attach to my DCS system. I didnt have additional serial port through PCI card I bought it from market. Then i added a serial printer(P132S) in system definition then i have recommit and i can see it in smdh but when i make it go online then it goes offline by itself). aI am using a null modem RS232. The log mate can capture data if you make a serial printer in windows and try to print any text file the log mate catures something though it is meaningless but still can capture. also if i go to /usr/fox/sp/files/cs_cfgs.pars I can find my serial printer there which is port number com2 like i made it has a number 5 OKIdata. and it name is LP00. so what do you think migh be the problem. thanks and best regards Mostafa _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave