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 <[email protected]> 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 > 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 jack on the W2 and a USB2 port on the PC . When I plug the USB > cable into the PC, Windows recognizes it and creates a new Com port. > Next, I attempt to use the Elecraft W2 program to communicate with the > W2, specifying the new Com port (Com9) in Setup. A message at the > bottom of the Setup window says "Looking for a W2..." and it sits there > that way forever. If I try the W2 Utility, it tells me that it has > opened Com9 and is polling the W2 and that the W2 is not responding. > > A trace of activity on the Com9 port when using the W2 program shows > Com9 opening and the program sending a semicolon repeatedly to the W2, > but no responses at all. A check in Device Manager properties says the > latest driver is installed for the W2 port and that driver level is > 2.12.28.0 dated 8/16/17. Unable to check the firmware level with the W2 > utility since the W2 doesn't respond. > > So, where to go from here? I suspect a driver problem, but it's not > clear what to do about it. > > > 73, Floyd - K8AC > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
