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Armada Comm Port (Or lack there of)

Rlahey

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The agency I program for has recently added a few Kenwood VP5000 series radios. I used EF J software in the past, and that was a breeze… but I cannot figure out the “virtual comm port” of the Armada software. The radio pops up as an “Ethernet device”, and I’m having trouble updating the driver with the specified driver from Kenwood. Anyone have any tricks?
 
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And probably Win10 or later. I also remember something about having to install the driver, then Armada again, and maybe the driver again. I can probably find the details.
 
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Some things to do, make sure (as mentioned) your are in USB mode not UART.
Latest Armada ?
USBLAN is in your device manager, if no, then reinstall Armada.
When you connect a radio, the log window will show radio connection, and then begin to read the radio.
If that happens, then you are good to go.
 
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kd4efm said:
Some things to do, make sure (as mentioned) your are in USB mode not UART.
Latest Armada ?
USBLAN is in your device manager, if no, then reinstall Armada.
When you connect a radio, the log window will show radio connection, and then begin to read the radio.
If that happens, then you are good to go.
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I bet its the USBLAN driver that I dont have, and cannot find that is causing my headache
 
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If pc is not seeing your radio then you will not see usblan in control panel. Not seeing it doesn’t mean it’s not installed.
 
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