Bill, I tried this also and although I successfully installed N8VBs multiport driver build 114 (com 4/com 5) I found that HRD responded slowly at best: it takes forever for the frequency to show in HRD. However, I may not have set the CAT options in SDR correctly. What I did is in HRD (which I used as a test) I selected Kenwood TS-2000 through com4 with auto detect speed and unchecked the flow control check boxes (as per the instructions on your website). In SDR CAT setup I set the CAT port to com5 and I played around with various baud rates, from 4800 to 57600, but no difference. I left the other com port variables at the SDR default and enabled com port. Then it became really mystifying - what the heck is "PTT Bit Bang"? All I know is that I can neither select com4 nor com5 as it tells me these are not available. But as I didn't try using PTT from HRD, I don't think this could be the issue. Any ideas? I don't think it's my system as it's a P4 3Gb/s with 1G of RAM - when powerSDR is running it's ticking over at a lazy 3-10%, even with HRD up. Joe
Not sure if this will help or not, it sounds like it should have worked. You need to read a little further down on Phil's page -- take a look @ the entry for "May 14, 2005" on Phil's page - that's pretty much where the details on vCOM start. Basically, you need to edit the .INF file to select com port nums if you want to use something other than 4 or 5. If you already have something at COM4 or COM5 you must do this of course. This needs to be done before installing the driver When asked which driver to install you probably want the objfre one, it does not have the debugging stuff the checked one does After rebooting look in device manger, under multiple port serial adapters, it should show N8VB's vCom driver without any red or yellow decorations. Tell HRD to use one of the ports, tell SDR to use the other. You need to be running one of my experimentals (1.3.5, 1.3.7) with the HRD fix, or need to be running Flex 1.3.8 -- 1.3.7 may work, I forget exactly which driver the HRD CAT fix went into. Regards, Bill (kd5tfd) At 08:22 AM 6/21/2005, Larry Loen wrote: >I am having trouble getting N8VB's virtual comm device driver >going...... _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz
