I had a similar situation with my MacBook Pro running OS X and Vista Bus. with Parallels. I tried the KUSB but could not get the K3 Utility to see the K3 with either Operating System. I purchased the Radio Shack USB to Serial adapter and all work well on both the Mac side and the Vista side until I rebooted the system.
Now the Mac side works great but when I go the the Vista side Parallels tells me the USB device is already in use. I have yet to figure out how to release the port in Mac so that Vista can see the USB connection. 73, John, NOIB K3 #364 Dave Van Wallaghen wrote: > > I noticed some discussion awhile ago about USB drivers for Vista that may > or > may not work. I had a catastrophic failure of my old Dell laptop and had > to > order a new one. I ordered a ThinkPad T61 with Vista64 business edition > (for > many reasons - it's a long story). I was able to find hardware drivers for > all of the hardware I interface to and the transition wasn't as bad as I > thought it was going to be. > > I have a 4-port USB hub that feeds a USB Gear 4-port serial converter. > This > arrangement worked fine under XP even with my K3 and the K3 firmware > utility. But with Vista64 I could not run Ham Radio Deluxe connected to my > K3. It would hang the laptop after about 20-30 seconds, requiring a hard > reboot. I looked through the forum for HRD and found the same problem > being > discussed, but no solution. And it seemed that it was not a total Vista > problem either since a number of people reported that they had no problems > at all. > > So I figured it had to be a driver problem and went looking for updated > drivers. The USB Gear serial converter uses an FTDI chip set and so I went > to the FTDI website: www.ftdichip.com and found an updated driver: 2.04.06 > dated 3/20/2008. (These are now Microsoft certified). After installation, > all seems to work just fine. The Elecraft K3 Utility seems to work fine > also > (I haven't tried updating the firmware yet since I'm current). > > I also found an updated Prolific driver for the KUSB for Vista64. It > installed correctly and reports a new serial com port under Device > Manager, > but I could not communicate with the K3 through HRD or the K3 utility. > They > both find the port number ok, but state nothing is there. So I'm not so > sure > that the driver is a go yet for Vista64 and the KUSB. > > Just FYI for anyone else fighting this battle. > > 73, > Dave W8FGU > > > _______________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Post to: [email protected] > You must be a subscriber to post to the list. > Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm > Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Vista-64-USB-drivers-tp16548378p16568608.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
