I used the Dynex USB-Serial adaptor from Best Buy. Seemed to work fine.
---- kc9cdt@aol.com wrote:
> Joe,
> Go back to the USB serial converter. BUT go to the hardware manager in
> windows and disable that multiport serial card first. Sounds like conflicts
> to me...also, do you have the latest windows SP 3 installed? You should at
> least have XP SP 2 installed.
> Also, disconnect from the internet (cable), make sure NO other programs are
> running and disable any antivirus and firewall programs you have
> Ever since Microsoft took away DIRECT serial port control in the OS we have
> had some issues with serial ports.It can be touchy now.
>
> Some USB to serial adapters works OK others are junk.
>
> 73,
> Lee
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Giacobello <k2xx@swva.net>
> To: tentec@contesting.com
> Cc: jmiller1706@cfl.rr.com
> Sent: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 9:40 am
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] FW Update Problem w/O2
>
>
>
> Jim and Billy, thanks for your inputs, but I'm continuing to have both an
> exasperating and mysterious series of problems with the FW installation.
>
> Apparently, those messages that I was receiving on the Orion screen were
> indicative of the FW code being loaded albeit at a very slow pace. I went
> back
> and tried it again several times and on some occasions the transfer would
> stop
> at an early line and the update software would close. The furthest I got
> before
> the transfer stopped was program flash 266. The speed seemed to be erratic,
> but
> it was generally quite slow. It made little difference whether I used
> hardware
> flow control or none and 57.6K speed or slower. Even though I usually
> received
> the error message that there was no communication between update software and
> the Orion, the Orion display showed
>
> I am currently using a multi-serial port PCI card for serial ports. It has
> worked flawlessly for several years with a number of different applications.
> I
> tried Jim's suggestion of using a USB-to-serial adapter and his port
> settings,
> but there appeared to be nothing happening based on no info being displayed
> on
> the Orion screen. I went back to the PCI serial port and now, unlike my
> earlier
> experiences, saw no info displayed on the screen that indicated data transfer
> (or anything else for that matter). (So Jim's remedy may have been working,
> but
> I couldn't tell.)
>
> Finally, I ran a serial port analyzer program and it showed that
> communication
> between the port and the Orion was established practically instantaneously,
> but
> then the data transfer slowed to a snail's pace when the update software
> started
> transferring code. (This is when the error message about loss of
> communication
> is generated. Apparently, it has slowed, but it has not stopped.) One line
> of
> code was being transferred every 6-7 seconds. I decided to allow the
> transfer
> to continue overnight and by this morning about half the code had been loaded
> and there are still no messages on the orion screen.
>
> I haven't the vaguest
> idea why I'm having this problem. It seems that most
> users have had no problems, although a small minority have had problems
> similar
> to mine. I never had any problems loading Orion I FW with the same setup.
> Really mysterious.
>
> 73, Joe
> K2XX
>
>
>
> /I had the same problem, others have mentioned it also. I finally had to buy
> a cheap USB to serial converter and use it. I suspect that something in the
> latest indows version doesn't like the older serial card I was using. I
> think some folks think it may be a Windows XP or Vista problem. But also be
> sure you have your serial port set to 57600 bps, no parity, hardware flow
> control. You do this in the Windows Device Manager, under COM and LPT
> ports.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com]
> On Behalf Of Joe Giacobello
> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 5:35 PM
> To: tentec@contesting.com
> Subject: [TenTec] FW Update Problem w/O2
>
> I have just been trying to install FW 2.041XL and have major problems.
> After starting the update, I first get an error message indicating that
> there's no communication with the radio. If I repeat the update one or
> two more times, I finally get a message on the Orion screen that says
> "Erase Flash" which then switches to "Program Flash 1." The number in
> that message continuously increments every 10 seconds or so, but nothing
> else happens. I can stop the numbers from incrementing by just shutting
> down the update software. So there must be some communication between
> the software and the O2.
>
> I've tried both master resets and RAM clears w/o any effect, and I also
> re-downloaded the FW file. I can't even re-install the original FW.
> Never had problems updating the original Orion.
>
> Anyone seen anything similar or have any thoughts on what might be going on?/
>
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