There may be a way to tell you prolific drivers to be something else other than com5...say maybe com3?
I have a similar setup but with different serial interface and hence different drivers. I had to set the driver to be, in my case, com2 in order for HRD to use it. 73, Dave. K6DCH Sent from my iPhone On Mar 9, 2010, at 5:44 PM, Phil Hystad <[email protected]> wrote: > I rarely dip into my Windows laptop but I wanted to check out > something with HRD (Ham Radio Deluxe) so I thought I would hook it > up to my K3 (I had it configured to work with my Icom 756 Pro III > already). So, I chose to do a new connection setup for the K3 after > I had setup the serial interface (using the serial/USB cable from > Elecraft). I had already run the K3 USB so I figured this should > work with HRD. > > But, problems. I am wondering if HRD can use the driver setup for > this serial interface? I first ran HRD and when I did the new > connection I had COM3 available but nothing else. I tried with > COM3, no good. So, I shutdown HRD and started up K3 USB utility. > It listed COM5 (not COM3). I did the connection and port test and > all seems to work. I shutdown the K3 USB utility. Started up HRD > and no COM5 is available. > > So, it seems like HRD does not see the ports created by the driver > installed (Prolific drivers) for the Elecraft Serial/USB interface. > > Before I start debugging this problem maybe there is an obvious > answer from those who have already done this? Is there something > that I am missing? Does anyone successfully use HRD with the > Prolific drivers and the Elecraft supplied serial/USB cable? > > 73, phil, K7PEH > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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
