[Dx4win] DX4WIN / Windows 7 / radio interface question

[ON4AOI]

Hi Jim,
It look strange to me that the USB to SERIAL device assigns 2 comports 
Maybe a new driver could solve this, but first check if it has really 2
comports

Guy ON4AOI
 

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: dx4win-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:dx4win-
> bounces at mailman.qth.net] Namens Jim Reisert AD1C
> Verzonden: zondag 3 januari 2010 16:29
> Aan: DX4WIN Reflector
> CC: k6zh at arrl.net
> Onderwerp: [Dx4win] DX4WIN / Windows 7 / radio interface question
> 
> [posted on behalf of Jim Price K6ZH]
> 
> From: Jim Price
> Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 9:52 PM
> To: dx4win at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: DX4WIN / Windows 7 / radio interface question
> 
> "Santa" (a.k.a. my wife) brought me a new HP Pavilion dv7 laptop, to
> replace my 6-year old Compaq Presario.  I have been using DX4WIN on the
> Compaq for quite a few years.  My radio is an IC-746, and I've been
> "talking" to it via a USB-to-Serial Converter plus a home-made
> interface
> box.  It's worked well.
> 
> So, today I bit the bullet and loaded DX4WIN 7 on the new HP laptop.  I
> then plugged in the USB-to-Serial converter, and the computer found a
> driver right away.  It assigned the new device (which actually has 2
> ports) as COM4 and COM5.  Since DX4WIN now will accommodate COM4 and
> COM5 in its pull-down menu for the radio, I figured - OK, let's go for
> it.  I assigned COM4 (and later COM5) to the IC-746 in the "Radio" part
> of File/Preference.  But to no avail - the program can't seem to "find"
> the radio, even though I'm quite confident that the interface to the
> serial converter is working.  It just says the 'radio interface timed
> out' when I try to 'Start Radio'.
> 
> The other troubling thing is that with Windows 7 I can't figure out how
> to reassign the port numbers - to COM1 and COM2.  It used to be easy
> with XP.  I'm not sure that I need to do that, but I'm thinking that
> maybe the converter only recognizes COM1 and COM2.  Any ideas?
> 
> AND/OR do I have to "turn on" something in Windows 7 in order to use a
> serial port?  I know that one has to enable Telnet, for example.
> 
> Appreciate any help; I really need to get over this hump so that, among
> other things, I can use N1MM and other contest logging programs!
> 
> 73 - Jim, K6ZH:  k6zh at arrl.net
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