Thought I would post my progress. Thanks to Bob and Rick I did work out the problems in DX4win. I tried each alone and learned a bit about the action of the serial ports for one. A little trickier when you don't have a native serial port. I found a nice FTDI converter that has 4 ports which after some experimenting worked well. The other problem was that Windows 10 wants to use Classic Window's theme in which case entries into various preference boxes were not visible giving the impression that nothing was happening. Use of any other theme corrected that problem.All OK now. BTW, I did try another program and was impressed but needs a few more days of trial.Thank you again for the help guys.73,Howard..K2HK
> Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 06:48:38 -0500 > From: k...@arrl.net > To: ho...@hotmail.com > Subject: Re: [Dx4win] HELP dx4win on new win10 computer > CC: dx4win@mailman.qth.net > > Howard, > Start with trying to solve one problem at a time. Your Win10 system can't > connect to the Internet and can't connect to your rig. Trying to solve > these together makes it harder to diagnose the causes as they're not > related. > > Don't plug in the serial port device. Can DX4WIN now connect to the > Internet? If not, try to solve that - perhaps your antivirus or firewall is > preventing it. > > Then, plug in the serial port device. Is DX4WIN still able to connect to > the Internet? If no, what error are you seeing? If so, then you've solved > the first problem. > > Assuming that Internet connectivity is now working, what error do you see > when you configure DX4WIN to use your FTDI serial port? > > Without knowing what is not working and what indication you have that it's > not working, there's not much to do here but guess. > > I second Robert's suggestion to use something other than DX4WIN to test the > serial port. Device Manager doesn't tell you that the device is working, it > only tells you that it's recognized. Counterfeit FTDI devices are widely > available and often don't work very well, so you may just have a bad > device. (For some of them, the FTDI device driver recognizes that it's a > counterfeit and refuses to work.) > 73, > -Rick > > On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Howard K2HK <ho...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > Usually can work it out myself but this has me stymied. Copied dx4win8.05 > > from my win7 computer to win10 computer. New computer has no serial ports > > but I have FTDI interface that shows up in the device manager as working. > > Dx4win starts up but can not connect to internet connections. I am using a > > Winkey as well which does not respond to the selected serial ports. Running > > out f ideas. Any help?Howard...K2Hk > > ______________________________________________________________ > > DX4WIN mailing list > > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > > Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net > > > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > > -- > > Rick Murphy, CISSP-ISSAP, K1MU/4, Annandale VA USA > > > ______________________________________________________________ > DX4WIN mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:DX4WIN@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
