USB-to-Serial cable

[KE8G]

Hi All,
I received a couple of cable from Elecraft today, and I am not having any luck getting them to work.  I go into the device manager and it says a driver has not been installed.  I tell it to update the driver, it goes out to the Internet, but returns nothing.  Any ideas?

Right now, I am trying to get it to work with my Toshiba laptop running Windows 8.

Thanks in advance,
Jim
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[Fred Townsend-2]

Jim:
By cable I think you mean USB to RS232 cable. Install the driver that comes
with the converter. Don't expect windows to know about your driver.
73
Fred, AE6QL

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Subject: [Elecraft] USB-to-Serial cable

Hi All,
I received a couple of cable from Elecraft today, and I am not having any
luck getting them to work.  I go into the device manager and it says a
driver has not been installed.  I tell it to update the driver, it goes out
to the Internet, but returns nothing.  Any ideas?

Right now, I am trying to get it to work with my Toshiba laptop running
Windows 8.

Thanks in advance,
Jim
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I would recommend downloading the driver from Elecraft.  Then update the
driver by choosing "Browse my computer for driver software". Then, in
the next step select the directory where the driver has been downloaded
and unpacked.  That should do - although sometimes Windows can be
annoying about needing the driver installed first before the adapter is
plugged in.  If this doesn't work, post what results you get and I'm
sure someone here will know the next work-around.

73 & gl, Doug -- K0DXV

On 11/18/2014 5:50 PM, Jim - KE8G wrote:

> Hi All,
> I received a couple of cable from Elecraft today, and I am not having any luck getting them to work.  I go into the device manager and it says a driver has not been installed.  I tell it to update the driver, it goes out to the Internet, but returns nothing.  Any ideas?
>
> Right now, I am trying to get it to work with my Toshiba laptop running Windows 8.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jim
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Jim
You should be able to get the drivers from the download section of the Elecraft site

Harlan 
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<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Jim - KE8G <[hidden email]> </div><div>Date:11/18/2014  7:50 PM  (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: Elecraft <[hidden email]> </div><div>Subject: [Elecraft] USB-to-Serial cable </div><div>
</div>Hi All,
I received a couple of cable from Elecraft today, and I am not having any luck getting them to work.  I go into the device manager and it says a driver has not been installed.  I tell it to update the driver, it goes out to the Internet, but returns nothing.  Any ideas?

Right now, I am trying to get it to work with my Toshiba laptop running Windows 8.

Thanks in advance,
Jim
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[Don Wilhelm-4]

Download the FTDI drivers fromhttp://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm
and install them.
Yes, it surprises me that Windows 8 does not find and load them
automatically, but then there have been some recent changes on the FTDI
drivers from what I have read.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 11/18/2014 7:50 PM, Jim - KE8G wrote:
> Hi All,
> I received a couple of cable from Elecraft today, and I am not having any luck getting them to work.  I go into the device manager and it says a driver has not been installed.  I tell it to update the driver, it goes out to the Internet, but returns nothing.  Any ideas?
>
> Right now, I am trying to get it to work with my Toshiba laptop running Windows 8.
>
>

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[KE8G]

Hi All,
Thanks for replying!

I had an "old timers" problem and forgot about going to the Elecraft web site for the needed driver!!!  I was able to download it and got things working.  The big test will be tomorrow running the CWOps mini test with this new cable.  I had been using a straight RS232 cable with my desktop that I built which has 4 serial ports.  

Thanks again,
Jim - KE8G


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> Jim
You should be able to get the drivers from the download section of the Elecraft site

Harlan 
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<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Jim - KE8G <[hidden email]> </div><div>Date:11/18/2014  7:50 PM  (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: Elecraft <[hidden email]> </div><div>Subject: [Elecraft] USB-to-Serial cable </div><div>
</div>Hi All,
I received a couple of cable from Elecraft today, and I am not having any luck getting them to work.  I go into the device manager and it says a driver has not been installed.  I tell it to update the driver, it goes out to the Internet, but returns nothing.  Any ideas?

Right now, I am trying to get it to work with my Toshiba laptop running Windows 8.

Thanks in advance,
Jim
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[KE8G]

Hi All,
First off, thanks to all that replied!  As I said in the first reply, I guess I was having one of the old timers memory problems and forgot about looking on the Elecraft web site for the needed information!

BUT, something very curious while connecting the cables.  The first cable I connected went from a Toshiba laptop, running Win8.  This is the setup where I had a problem with the Internet search not returning the needed driver, hence the request for help here and manual search.

This morning, I hooked up the second cable to my home built PC, running Win7, and it took all of 10 seconds to go out on the Internet and find/install the needed driver.

Very curious with the difference between Win8 and Win7 Internet search results!

Thanks again,
73 de Jim - KE8G


---- Jim - KE8G <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Hi All,
> I received a couple of cable from Elecraft today, and I am not having any luck getting them to work.  I go into the device manager and it says a driver has not been installed.  I tell it to update the driver, it goes out to the Internet, but returns nothing.  Any ideas?
>
> Right now, I am trying to get it to work with my Toshiba laptop running Windows 8.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jim
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[Bob N3MNT]

Not sure it is the search itself, but the differences in the security levels for drivers and other things being installed on the machine.  Win 8 seems to want to only accept signed drivers and win 7 doesn't seem to care.  

[Rich-4]

One more item that may be of interest to the masses.  For years I used
my K3 and a Vista laptop with West Mountain USB converters. This setup
worked perfectly.  A laptop failure required me to upgrade.  Due to the
purchase of the new Win 8 laptop I needed to replace my USB RS232
adapters.  I bought the WM cables for Win 8. Both of these cables failed
while i was operating.  They replaced them and then they failed again.  
I would guess they are extremely sensitive to RF.   I should mention
that these are used while operating portable.

Rich
On 11/20/2014 9:22 AM, Bob N3MNT wrote:

> Not sure it is the search itself, but the differences in the security levels
> for drivers and other things being installed on the machine.  Win 8 seems to
> want to only accept signed drivers and win 7 doesn't seem to care.
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