Hi Dave:
I tried COM1 and it works okay. COM4 works with K3 nd several other
programs okay including WL and MMTTY, N1MM, N3FJP but not K3 Utility at
this time.
COM4 shows up in device manager but not in K3 Utility PullDown Menu,
Doesn't even get to the driver situation..
Try having Utility ch
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brett Howard
> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 4:57 AM
> Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 Utility RS-232 ComPort4
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> If anyone else is interested in this EasySync
sday, August 26, 2008 5:14 AM
To: Dick Dievendorff; Dave W7DPW; k3
Subject: RE: [Elecraft] K3 Utility RS-232 ComPort4
>From the registry? What about in Windows XP? The serial object that is
fairly new in XP (part of SP2 I believe) has a method you can call to
get a list of ports. Does this
To: 'Dave W7DPW'; 'k3'
Subject: RE: [Elecraft] K3 Utility RS-232 ComPort4
The K3 Utility gets its inventory of COM ports from the registry. See
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\SERIALCOMM
When a serial port device driver installs a COM device, it's supposed to
make this
If anyone else is interested in this EasySync LTD is a company that
makes a lot of different single and multi port USB to RS232/UART
adapters. Many of them also support other protocols like RS485 and
what not.
Anyway EasySync LTD is a sister company of FTDI (the company that
makes some of the bes
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:31:48 -0700, "Dave W7DPW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I just now have gotten around to downloading the K3 Utility and have it
>installed on my 98SE machine. I have a USB to RS-232 converter on it
>shows in my system menu as COM4 but it will not appear in the selection
>menu
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Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 Utility RS-232 ComPort4
Since I was messing with computers, and I had everything to hand, I
just tried installing the Prolific drivers, from their website, on a
W98 machine that I'm configuring, and then the K3 download program.
It all worked as adver
Since I was messing with computers, and I had everything to hand, I
just tried installing the Prolific drivers, from their website, on a
W98 machine that I'm configuring, and then the K3 download program.
It all worked as advertised, no problem, so it does work, at least
sometimes.
Just think, if
The K3 Utility gets its inventory of COM ports from the registry. See
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\SERIALCOMM
When a serial port device driver installs a COM device, it's supposed to
make this registry entry. That's what we're looking for.
Dick, K6KR
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Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 Utility RS-232 ComPort4
> Dave,
>
> That Win98SE surely has real serial ports. I strongly suggest that
you
> use one of the real serial ports. I
Dave,
That Win98SE surely has real serial ports. I strongly suggest that you
use one of the real serial ports. IIRC correctly (it has been years),
but the USB support in Win98SE was flaky at best - the situation did not
get much better until Win2k, and by then Win98 was fading into the
back
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