Can someone tell me if I am going in the right direction?

[Archangel]

Matt, do you have the 2 LABX boards hooked to a common power supply? You should have a common ground between them. ADCON0=0 disables A/D too

[MatthewM]

Yes, I have a common ground. What do I want for my ADCON settings?

Right now I am using the codes that where given to me by skimask, unchanged.

[MatthewM]

Well guys, thanks again for your time, it's unimaginably nice to have people to ask questions, instead of manuals...Lol. But I need to sleep, I have a rather large amount of family events to contend with tomorrow, so I need to turn in. Hopefully sleeping on it will give me an idea.

Matt

[skimask]

Alright...time to completely forget ALL about this serial business...
TX Side:

DEFINE OSC 20                   'Defines oscillator rate
ADCON1=$ff : Output PortD.0 'output on PortD.0
LOOP: PortD.0 = 1 : pause 500 : PortD.0 = 0 : pause 500 : goto loop
END

Should flash an LED connected to PortD.0 once per second, 1/2 on, 1/2 off...

RX Side:

DEFINE OSC 20
temp var byte : Input PortB.7
Loop:
if PortB.7 = 1 then 'checks logic level on Portb.7
PortB.0 = 1 'if it's high, set B.0 high
else
PortB.0 = 0 'otherwise set it low
endif
temp = temp + 1 : portB.1 = temp.7 'increase the temp variable, and set b.1 to match the temp variable's bit 7
goto loop
END

PortD.0 on the TX, connected to PortB.7 on the RX.
LED connected to PortB.0 <- follows PortB.7, which should follow PortB.7
LED connected to PortB.1 <- should flash quickly showing that the loop is running...if you think it's flashing too fast to see it, change temp var byte to temp var word and change temp = temp + 1 : portb.1 = temp.7 to temp = temp + 1 : portb.1 = temp.15

If that doesn't work, you've got hardware and/or config problems somewhere and it's time to write a blinky for both individually and get the pins themselves working.

[Archangel]

Yes, I have a common ground. What do I want for my ADCON settings?

Right now I am using the codes that where given to me by skimask, unchanged.

ADCON0 and ADCON1 are 2 seperate registers, do different things, related to A/D converters
ADCON0 = 0 shuts off A/D
ADCON1 = $FF? i would set as ADCON1 = 6 or 7 , data sheet chart shows all digital with those settings, no VREFs . . .

[MatthewM]

I completely redid the code and got it working, using information from this thread, and
others on this site, finally. I am not sure exactly what was wrong with the other one, but I am assuming it was a config issue, since this code seems to work, maybe the addition of a qualifier too. Regardless, I probably wouldn't have been able to figure it out without your help.

Thanks for your time and help, it saved me days of flirting with manuals and project books.
Matt