[Xastir] WX station interfacing

[Rick Green]

On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Matt Werner wrote:

> I have a 2000 and have no problems with it interfacing with xastir.  I
> ran my cable from the junction box, not the display unit itself, but
> don't recall any issues with the wiring.

The junction box?  On my model, there's only analog signals present there. 
Do you mean maybe the 'Duplex cable', which appears to be a splitter of 
some sort that allows the addition of a temp/humidity sensor...
  >
> I also have no problems with xastir displaying the negative temps correctly.

That's good news.

Current status:  I found a dual-port serial card in the junkbox.  When I 
lifted the cover to install it, I discovered that I have no 'legacy' ISA 
slots on this motherboard, but it is equipped with a COMB header!  I 
rebooted and checked the BIOS setup, and lo and behold, there was indeed a 
second serial port, disabled.  I've got that enabled, and the machine 
restarted.  So now I'm searching for documentation on the pinout of that 
header, so I can make up a proper cable.  Anybody know what the Gigabyte 
GA7-VKML standard is?

-- 
Rick Green

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