[Elecraft] Need help in communicating with W2 from Win 10

2019-03-06 Thread Floyd Sense
Acquired a used W2 today and have the hardware hooked up and operating.  The W2 works just fine.  Now I'm attempting to establish communications with the W2 from the PC, with no luck thus far.  The PC is running Win 10 Home, 64 bit.  I'm using the Elecraft USB cable plugged into the PC Data jac

Re: [Elecraft] Need help in communicating with W2 from Win 10

2019-03-07 Thread W4JBA
Floyd, The USB cable that the W2 uses has an FTDI chip in it. I agree with you, it does sound like a driver issue. Since you've determined that your Comm port driver is installed,  It kinda sounds like you may not have an FTDI driver installed in your computer. I had the same problem with WI

Re: [Elecraft] Need help in communicating with W2 from Win 10

2019-03-06 Thread Michael Walker
Make sure you don't have multiple Com 9's. You may have some ghosted Com ports. Mike va3mw On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 12:07 PM Floyd Sense wrote: > Acquired a used W2 today and have the hardware hooked up and operating. > The W2 works just fine. Now I'm attempting to establish communications > w

Re: [Elecraft] Need help in communicating with W2 from Win 10

2019-03-06 Thread Floyd Sense
There's only one Com9.  Device Manager shows no dupes of any ports.  I've assigned a different port number, one that is an unused hardware port, with the very same results. On 3/6/2019 1:20 PM, Michael Walker wrote: Make sure you don't have multiple Com 9's.   You may have some ghosted Com por

Re: [Elecraft] Need help in communicating with W2 from Win 10

2019-03-06 Thread Nr4c
Does the W2 require any power? Sent from my iPhone ...nr4c. bill > On Mar 6, 2019, at 1:38 PM, Floyd Sense wrote: > > There's only one Com9. Device Manager shows no dupes of any ports. I've > assigned a different port number, one that is an unused hardware port, with > the very same resu

Re: [Elecraft] Need help in communicating with W2 from Win 10

2019-03-06 Thread Bob Gibson via Elecraft
I have the same problem here with the W2.. I gave up!! Good luck!!    73s Bob W5RG On Wednesday, March 6, 2019, 12:22:44 PM CST, Michael Walker wrote: Make sure you don't have multiple Com 9's.  You may have some ghosted Com ports. Mike va3mw On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 12:07 PM Floyd S

Re: [Elecraft] Need help in communicating with W2 from Win 10

2019-03-06 Thread Michael Walker
I use the W2 on 2 Win 10 computers without issue. Ghosted Com ports can't be seen unless you do the following: 1.) Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Accessories, and then click *Command Prompt*. 2.) At a command prompt, type the following command , and then press ENTER: *set devmgr_sh