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That sounded logical, but it did not help.  Thanks for the advice.

I posted a message on Sierra's site and they said it will be resolved in the
patch.  However, no release date is available on that patch.

Yippee38


"Ren van Lobberegt" wrote:

> Tony Wyss (webmaster@ga-sports.NOSPAM.com) wrote :
> > I sure haven't, it doesn't recognize the steering movement in configuring.
> > Please help us saps :)
> >
> > Yippee38 <yippee38@foxvalley.net.nospam> wrote in message
> > news:36BBEEF1.83CD2DCD@foxvalley.net.nospam...
> > >Anybody get GPL to work with a steering wheel that uses the serial port
> > >instead of the joystick port?  If so, what'd you do to get it working?
>
> If you've got an internal modem at the 'opposite' port (COM1<->COM3 or
> COM2<->COM4), then that will probably be the cause.
> If there's no option to avoid this then try ripping the modem out (turn off
> puter first :) ) and try again. It'll probably work then, but leaves you with
> having to remove the modem each time you want to race, and no online racing.
> You may also want to try disabling the modem in 'Start-Setup-Config-System-
> Devices tab' (try to imaging where I'm heading you, I'm using Dutch Win).
>
> Hope this helpes,
> --
> Ren van Lobberegt, The Netherlands.
>
> Cheetah Racing :
>     http://renevanl.www.cistron.nl/cheetah/index_nl.html
>
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>                 renevanl@cistron.nl
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>                   webmaster@amcaracing.nl

