[Ham-Mac] Re.Serial ports, Boot Camp, Parallels 4.0

[Mike Williams]

John

I have Parallels 4 (XP pro) running with two virtual serial ports. One is connected to my FT920 with the other connected to an Expert 1K-FA. Both work together. As it happens both serial/USB adapters are different but I only have the drivers in the iMac loaded. Interestingly in Network Prefs both adapters are shown as configured but not connected.

In Virtual Machine Configuration each of the ports is a 'Real Port' shown as enabled and connected.

Good luck
Mike
M0MRW




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Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 04:44:52 -0800 (PST)
From: "John T. Barr" <w6jtb at yahoo.com>
Subject: [Ham-Mac] Serial ports, Boot Camp, Parallels 4.0
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I am cruising sailboat, I use a MacBook with a Keyspan 4 port serial-USB adapter. Running OSX I use two serial ports, one for a GPS input for electronic charting using GPSNavX, and one for an AIS receiver input to that same application.

Using BootCamp and Windows Vista and running Airmail software, two more serial ports are used, one to do frequency control to a Yaesu FT 100D, and the other to a SCS PTC pactor III modem.

In both cases the correct drivers for both OSs have been downloaded from Keyspan and both systems run fine...just one at a time.

Yesterday I attended an excellent lecture on charting by Mark Doyle at the Seven Seas Cruising Association annual meeting, and he strongly recommended Parallels 4.0, indicating that the multiple serial port issues that existed in earlier versions had been fixed in this latest release.

Any experience with this combo and suggestions are welcome including any other OSX/Windows solutions using multiple serial ports?

73, John, W6JTB
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