[WriteLog] WinKey USB won't work with WriteLog on my laptop

[Kelly Johnson]

With the help of a serial port monitor I have narrowed down the
problem a bit more.  I'm hoping someone can help me resolve it from
here.

The "CW Keyboard" in Writelog is working fine, but the function keys
(which I have programmed with CW messages) do not work.  Clearly the
connection between WriteLog and WinKey is working as is the connection
from WinKey to my rig.  The "CW Keyboard" correctly keys the rig.  I
see absolutely no serial port traffic going to the WinKey VCP when I
use the function keys.  I can't say I've ever seen such behavior.   I
think the function keys work.  At least the "Alt-Fn" keys work because
I can use "Fn F8" to change the display mode.  Is there some
configuration item in WriteLog.INI that would cause this OR does it
think I'm in SSB mode or something and thus won't send CW in response
to Function keys?

Ideas?


On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Kelly Johnson<n6kj.kelly at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've had this problem for over 1 year.  I've tried everything to
> resolve it, but so far nothing works.
>
> My WinKey USB works fine with WriteLog on my desktop, but will not
> work with my Laptop.
>
> WinKey USB works with DX4WIN and WKTest on my laptop, but not with WriteLog.
>
> I tried uninstalling all COM ports on my machine and reinstalling the
> driver and even that did not work.  The COM ports assigned to WinKey
> USB are COM5 and COM6, so they're not "invalid" COM port numbers.
>
> The symptom is that as soon as I run WriteLog set up for WinKey on
> COM5 or COM6, then WinKey goes quiet and it won't key the rig.  The
> paddle input doesn't work either.  WinKey just won't key the rig.
> Like I said, WKTest and DX4WIN work fine.
>
> Can someone tell me how to debug this problem?  I could intercept the
> RS232 traffic if this were an RS-232 port and look at it, but I have
> no idea how to look at the traffic across a VCP over USB.
>
> I really need to get this working.
>