[Elecraft] [K3] K3 MacOS M1 Mini

[Rick Tavan]

Actually, I've run YCCC SO2R Box and SO2R Box Utility on Win 11 ARM Preview
under Parallels Desktop on a Macbook Pro M1 Max without recompilation. They
talk politely to the hardware across a USB connection. However, they expect
two pairs of virtual COM ports to communicate with the logger (N1MM in my
case) via OTRSP. My old standbys, vspMgr and COM0COM, do not work in that
environment. However, Eltima has a Virtual Serial Port Driver in an ARM
version that works very simply and cleanly.

73,

/Rick N6XI

On Sat, Sep 24, 2022 at 8:08 PM Barry Baines via Elecraft <
elecraft at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

>
> That said, there is one caveat:   Windows ARM does not currently support
> natively USB devices other than such as items as Keyboards, Mice,
> Trackballs, etc.  For example, I cannot run a SDR device on the ARM because
> the device drivers don’t exist under ARM needed for SDR:  I use ZADIG to
> add drivers for SDR and it doesn’t work running Windows 11 ARM.
>
> I suspect that USB support for ARM will grow under time, but it remains to
> be seen whether software that uses USB attached devices that require
> special device drivers will work.  In my case, this means using data
> sources available via the internet rather than using a SDR device for
> over-the-air reception of data.  For example, I can use data collected via
> SDR attached to my Dell laptop and feed that data to Apple MBP M1 laptop
> running Windows 11 ARM via LAN to display the data.
>
> --

Rick Tavan
Truckee and Saratoga, CA