trouble while communication with serial port

kapil
hello to all members,
  i m using mini2440 with WinCE.i've written a code in vb .net2005 for
mini2440 for serial communication using MODBUS protocol.now when
communicate my board n a modbus slave then there is no issue everyting goes
fine but when i trying it with my actual machine then there seems to be no
communication at all,i can't even trace if query that i  m sending is
accepted ,rejected, or any other error because there is no responce from
the slave machine(which is a VLT FC51 drive). 

thanks in advance

Kapil