I have been trying to help a friend with his zombie ports.
They originated from not uninstalling the ports in vspMGR before
upgrading to the latest version. They now also keep coming back. His
system is Win7-32 bit.
Like some clarification on the final solution. Was this to as David did?
(Installed VSPE and works perfect no timeouts all day.)
Or is it more then this? Do I have to uninstall vspMGR? ??
John Vandenberg, ve3dvv
On 3/13/2012 1:00 PM, flexradio-requ...@flex-radio.biz wrote:
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:06:07 -0400
From: "David Edwards"<w...@verizon.net>
To:<flexradio@flex-radio.biz>
Subject: [Flexradio] CAT problem partially solved
Message-ID:<8C4608A239FD4B8FA77B4B45387BEBC7@PCX58>
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I've tried everything to get vspMGR to work and not time out. Thanks to Jim KJ2P who
alerted me to "Zombie ports" Nothing I do completely deletes the Eltima ports
from Win 7 64 bit. You delete ports from vspMGR (Ran as admin) they don't go away. You go
into control panel and uninstall the drivers. They disappear from the device manager.
Next reboot they are back. Then you uninstall the ports again and next reboot they are
back with the yellow exclamation mark.
This is not an indictment of vspMGR or Eltima. Most likely the blame lies with
Win7 64 bit and of course it could be operator error but I usually find my dumb
mistakes within a day. This has gone on for over a week. Once I find out why
those ports have 9 lives I'll try vspMGR again.
Installed VSPE and works perfect no timeouts all day.
Thanks to all who helped and recommended VSPE.
de WB1S
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:19:50 -0500
From: Tony Estep<estept...@gmail.com>
To: FlexRadio reflector<flexradio@flex-radio.biz>
Subject: Re: [Flexradio] CAT problem partially solved
Message-ID:
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On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 5:06 PM, David Edwards<w...@verizon.net> wrote:
>....go into control panel and uninstall the drivers. They disappear from the
device manager.
> Next reboot they are back. Then you uninstall the ports again and next
reboot they are back....
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Dave, did you try uninstalling them from device manager? It would seem
that might kill 'em.
Or maybe something is saved somewhere down in the bowels of VSPMgr.
Maybe if you uninstall the whole VSPMgr and all its ports, erase its
directory in Roaming, and start over they won't come back.
They are coming from somewhere, and somewhere has to be either a file
or a registry entry. I'd think those had to be created by VSPMgr, not
by the OS. If it's a registry entry it's naturally harder to find it
and kill it, but one way or the other there has to be a way.
Tony KT0NY
-- http://www.isb.edu/faculty/facultydir.aspx?ddlFaculty=352
------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012
18:01:59 -0500 From: Bill <w...@billnjudy.com> To:
flexradio@flex-radio.biz Subject: [Flexradio] Phantom Cat Ports
Message-ID: <4f5e8067.6060...@billnjudy.com> Content-Type: text/plain;
charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed I read this and it showed how to rid
zombie or phantom cat ports it may or may not help you, but it did no
harm to my system after I performed the exorcism. Start Run Type
cmd.exe in the textbox and click OK Type set
devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1 and hit ENTER Type
cd\windows\system32 and hit ENTER Type start devmgmt.msc and hit ENTER
rem: When the device manager opens, click the View menu Click Show
Hidden Devices Click on the + sign next to the Ports to see the full
list of Com ports being used. Highlight the port you wish to delete
and then press delete. Accept when asked to do so and continue with
any more that you wish to delete. ------------------------------
Message: 5 Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:48:10 -0700 (PDT) From:
n12...@yahoo.com To: "flexradio@flex-radio.biz"
<flexradio@flex-radio.biz> Subject: [Flexradio] com ports Message-ID:
<1331596090.36372.yahoomail...@web160301.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I have flex3000. when I go
to setup, cat-control, ports, I only get choice of none or port 3. It
says unable How do I get more choices. It says unable to set cat on
port 3. 73, Johnnie, W6HTY ------------------------------ Message: 6
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:17:03 -0400 From: "Ray, K9DUR"
<k9...@rnacs.com> To: "'Tony Estep'" <estept...@gmail.com>,
"'FlexRadio reflector'" <flexradio@flex-radio.biz> Subject: Re:
[Flexradio] CAT problem partially solved Message-ID:
<002d01cd00ae$9f239070$dd6ab150$@com> Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="us-ascii" Tony, They are probably coming from registry
entries that are deucedly difficult to get rid of. I have run across
this before. 73, Ray, K9DUR http://k9dur.info -----Original
Message----- From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz
[mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Tony Estep
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 6:20 PM To: FlexRadio reflector Subject:
Re: [Flexradio] CAT problem partially solved On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at
5:06 PM, David Edwards <w...@verizon.net> wrote:
>....go into control panel and uninstall the drivers. They disappear from
the device manager.
> Next reboot they are back. Then you uninstall the ports again and next
reboot they are back....
=====================
Dave, did you try uninstalling them from device manager? It would seem that
might kill 'em.
Or maybe something is saved somewhere down in the bowels of VSPMgr.
Maybe if you uninstall the whole VSPMgr and all its ports, erase its
directory in Roaming, and start over they won't come back.
They are coming from somewhere, and somewhere has to be either a file or a
registry entry. I'd think those had to be created by VSPMgr, not by the OS.
If it's a registry entry it's naturally harder to find it and kill it, but
one way or the other there has to be a way.
Tony KT0NY
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http://www.isb.edu/faculty/facultydir.aspx?ddlFaculty=352
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