[chirp_users] ... Could not open Com 3

Jim Unroe
Tue Sep 6 02:01:22 PDT 2016


On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 3:58 AM, Ken G <kdubya at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> I haven’t downloaded from my UV-5r for quite some time but today I
> downloaded the latest version of Chirp, plugged in the cable and I get the
> following error thrown up by Chirp -
> “could not open port COM3: [Error 2] The system cannot find the file
> specified.”
>
> .. and this error for the port in Device Manager of Windows 10  ..
> “This device cannot start. (Code 10)

It appears that you have a programming cable with a (counterfeit)
Prolific type chips. When you first got it, you probably had to
download, install and select the older (2007) Prolific v3.2.0.0 device
driver to get it to work because Prolific device drivers since 2008
are intentionally incompatible with counterfeit Prolific chips.

You have either plugged the programming cable into a different USB
port causing it to be configured with the  latest Prolific device
driver or Windows 10 has, on its own, decided to upgrade the device
driver back to the latest version. In either case, all you have to do
is to go back into Device Manager and choose the older v3.2.0.0 device
driver again.

Basically you will be repeating steps 6 through 11.
http://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_Drivers.php

If you don't want to deal with this again in the future, you can get a
programming cable with a different brand of USB-to-TTL chip. FTDI chip
based programming cables are popular for this reason.

Jim KC9HI
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