I find that there are many com ports that say they are in use but are invalid. I used a cable tester application from here: http://www.kc8unj.com/interface.html
scroll to the bottom and look for the download link: interface cable loopback tester. While it will test several cables the reason in your case if you have many com ports that say they are in use, the tester software will report invalid ports. Those are ports still written in the registry previously used. But they can be used again I've done it several times. When you change the driver com port and it says In Use, just ignore and ok the change.
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On Feb 12, 2013, at 4:04 PM, Dean Gibson AE7Q data@ae7q.net wrote:
On 2013-02-08 22:21, Dean Gibson AE7Q wrote:
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Well, I use COM ports w/ Chirp into the 100's. I agree that enumerating or "blindly" extending the list is a bad idea. My suggestion is to remember any valid (1-256) COM port(s) manually entered into the "COM box", and present them in future invocations.
-- Dean AE7Q
I see that the new version (0.3.0) enumerates all the serial ports in use; thanks!!!
However, it enumerates the serial ports in alphabetical order, not numeric order.
I'd suggest the latter, so that COM11 follows COM2, and not precedes it.
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