[Elecraft] K3 USB-->Serial Names OT, Kinda

[James Bennett]

Yep, both of ‘em are there in the Device Manager. The K3 is Com1 (not connected to the Windoze guest) and the KX3 is COM3, which IS connected to Windoze. Unfortunately, neither of them show the nice human-friendly names as I’d hoped they would. And, Fusion’s name doesn’t help, either.  Clicking each of the two USB icons  on the Fusion toolbar simply shows “Future Devices FT232R USB UART”. I knew that the KX3 is COM3, as I use LP Bridge and it shows the COM port the radio is connected to. Oh well, would have been nice to see the human names, but I guess the Microsoft folks didn’t think it was necessary. 

Thanks folks, 73


> On   Thursday, Jan 29, 2015, at  Thursday, 4:53 AM, Mike Reublin NF4L <nf4l at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> On the Windoze side, the ports will show up in Device Manager under Ports(Com & LPT) as COMx where x is some number. To figure out which is which, unplug one and see which COM goes away.
> If you don't have the Ports listing in Device Manager, WIn isn't seeing them. I run Win 7 under Parallels, and if I want to use the adapters in Windoze, I have to connect them in Parallels. They cannot be available to the Mac and Win at the same time. I have no idea about Fusion, it may work differently.
> 
> 73, Mike NF4L
> 
>> On Jan 28, 2015, at 11:31 PM, James Bennett <w6jhb at me.com <mailto:w6jhb at me.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi folks,
>> 
>> Looking for some help identifying the USB—>Serial adapter names on Windows 8.1. Here’s the situation: I have a KX3 and a K3. Each has it’s own USB—>Serial adapter from Elecraft. These USB guys plug into my iMac. I run the K3 on the Mac side of the machine, and the KX3 under VMWare Fusion and Windows 8.1 on “the other side”. On the Mac side I use MacLogger DX (MLDX), FLDIGI, and WSJT-X. When I configure the radio connection, MLDX knows the “names” of each adapter. the one for the K3 is A8003Ssu and the KX3’s adapter is A501XNHZ. On the Mac side, it is easy to determine which adapter is associated with which radio. 
>> 
>> However, on the Windows side, it is not an easy matter at all. Nowhere can I find any place where it shows the names of these two adapters. And the reason why it is a problem is thus: If the K3 is not “connected” to either MLDX, or WSJT-X, or FLDIGI on the Mac side and I bring up Windows, I often get both adapters available to me under Fusion. If I attach the wrong one to my apps on the Windows side, things are ugly and take a while to correct.
>> 
>> Is there some way, either with Windows itself, or with VMWare Fusion to see these device names? 
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