I can't seem to find this problem anywhere so I'm hoping somebody here can help me! Up until yesterday, my com port on my Panasonic Toughbook CF-52 was working hunky dory nice. A coworker was using it to troubleshoot and then it happened....the terminal emulation screen went blank and you could no longer type anything to the terminal emulation program. I uninistalled the terminal emulation program, reinstalled it - no good. I was able to narrow down that it is not the terminal emulation program (I tried 3 of them with the same results - hyperterm, Procomm and cryptoterm) but the fact that I when I type, no letters appear on the emulation screen. I uninstalled the com port (I'm on com port 1), rebooted the laptop and the com port was reinstalled but the same issue appears over and over and over - I cannot type to any device using com 1. I tried changing the keyboard types on the emulation programs to no avail. I know the com port works because I can see the OS of my cisco 3750 switch loading just fine but when it comes time for me to start configuring - nada, nothing comes on the screen.
Has anyone ever had anything like this happen to them? I would soooo greatly appreciate any assistance and help anyone can provide.
Thanks very much!