Hi Nick, that's quite normal. All interfaces (each USB-Port is one interface !) are enumerated during the boot process of your OS. Each USB-Port will stay the same COMn after reboot. Connecting the converter to a different USB-Port is the same as connecting a new converter to the system.
Maybe there is a way to manually modify the enumeration after reboot. I would prefer to just remember which USB-Port i used the last time. 73 de Thomas, DM7TN -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick-WA5BDU Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 8:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Elecraft] K3 - COM port iterating ... I use the USB to serial converter from Elecraft to connect my laptop to my K3. When I initially plugged it in it configured itself as COM 4. Hmmm? My laptop doesn't have any real serial ports. Later, I moved it to a different connector and lost communications. The COM port had re-configured itself as COM 5. So I changed the settings on my software to suit and things were good. I wondered if this behavior was somehow related to the specific USB port. So I moved the connector back to the initial USB port. This time the COM port iterated up to COM 6. I wonder if there's a way to tell this thing to be the same COM port each time I plug it in? My computer is a fairly new Dell laptop running Vista. As recommended, I let Vista go out and find the best driver for it on the web. 73--Nick, WA5BDU #1195 _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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
