[Elecraft] Windows 7 64bit and USB to RS232 adapter

[WILLIS COOKE]

True!, but in this conflict Microsoft is the big dog, Prolific is the tail, 
Elecraft is the flea and I am probably not even a hair!
 Willis 'Cookie' Cooke 
K5EWJ 




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From: Dick Dievendorff <dieven at comcast.net>
To: WILLIS COOKE <wrcooke at yahoo.com>
Cc: Robert Redmon <k5sm.bob at gmail.com>; "elecraft at mailman.qth.net" 
<elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sat, December 25, 2010 5:06:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Windows 7 64bit and USB to RS232 adapter


I think I understand that issue. Sometimes the driver issues a data available 
signal but when you subsequently ask for the data, none is there.  My view is 
that this boundary condition could have been handled a bit better by the MS VB 
common communications DLL, but my view doesn't help the poor guy using That 
DLL. 

You make a good point, but I'm not sure Prolific is entirely at fault here. 

Dick, K6KR

On Dec 25, 2010, at 14:15, WILLIS COOKE <wrcooke at yahoo.com> wrote:


Dick, I had no difficulty with the Elecraft supplied K3 utilities, but could 
not control the K3 from N1MM and XMLog.  These logging programs were complied 
using Visual Basic and I was told that the Prolific driver and Visual Basic had 
a register conflict.  When I bought the PCIe RS-232 card it cured my problems 
and I have not worried with it since.  I got the latest Prolific drivers from 
the web site a little over a year ago, but have not updated them since I quit 
using the Elecraft supplied Prolific converter. 
> Willis 'Cookie' Cooke 
>K5EWJ 
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From: Dick Dievendorff <dieven at comcast.net>
>To: WILLIS COOKE <wrcooke at yahoo.com>
>Cc: Robert Redmon <k5sm.bob at gmail.com>; "elecraft at mailman.qth.net" 
><elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
>Sent: Sat, December 25, 2010 3:49:16 PM
>Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Windows 7 64bit and USB to RS232 adapter
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>I use an older Prolific based KUSB with my Windows 7 64 bit system that I use to 
>develop and test the various Elecraft Utilities.  I got my drivers from the 
>Prolific web site listed in K3 Utility Help, see Troubleshooting USB to serial 
>adapters section. 
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>Dick, K6KR
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>On Dec 25, 2010, at 12:57, WILLIS COOKE <wrcooke at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> Bob, the Prolific converters do not work well with W7.  I have been using W7 
>> with my K3 for over a year with a PCIe card RS-232 port.  It worked the first 

>> time with no problems.  Elecraf has quit selling the Prolific converter, but 
>>the 
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>> one they were selling two years ago was Prolific.  I think that some are having 
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>> good results from the FTDI chip set converters which Elecraft is shipping now.  
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>> You will need the latest drivers which are available from the FTDI web site.  

>> Surely Prolific will eventually get their act together and publish a driver 
>> which will work with W7, maybe they have by now.
>>  Willis 'Cookie' Cooke 
>> K5EWJ 
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>> ________________________________
>> From: Robert Redmon <k5sm.bob at gmail.com>
>> To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
>> Sent: Sat, December 25, 2010 2:26:43 PM
>> Subject: [Elecraft] Windows 7 64bit and USB to RS232 adapter
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>> I have a new laptop with W7/64bit and can't get my USB/Serial adapter to 
>> work (with my K3). It all works fine on my XP (32bit) computers. Anyone 
>> who can help?
>> 
>> 73, Bob K5SM
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