Esky TX and Esky USB cable problems- only 2 axis available

[simondo]

I have a 6 channel CCPM Esky TX with an Esky USB cable (EK2-900A).

When connected to my pc via USB the TX is reconignised as a PPM device in Windows Game Controllers, but with only 2 axis and 3 buttons (Z axis, X rotation, Y rotation and 3 buttons), not a 4 axis, 4 button controller which is required for FMS.

In FMS-Controls-Resourses, the TX is listed as a Microsoft PC joystick driver with 5 channels. Only pitch and throttle on the TX make the bars move.

In FMS-Controls-Mapping/Calibration-Joystick Interface, channel 1 responds to is pitch on the TX , channel 2 responds to throttle on the TX. No other channels respond.

How do you get windows to recognise the Esky TX as a 4 axis controller? Is there a driver required/

I have successfully used the TX on and old PC with an Esky Serial cable.

I am using Win XP Home, SP2 and FMS 2.0 Alpha 8.5.

I have searched all of the FMS forum.

Please help as I would like to use my TX and FMS on my new PC that has no serial port.

[andyj]

I've also just got this cable, and find a similar problem. The issue seems to be that the USB cable simply isn't compatible, since even Windows does not pick up all the channels correctly. They are all wrong, and I believe there are problems with the CCPM mixing that the Tx does - i.e. when you move the throttle, it tells 4 channels to move (motor power and all three cyclic servos).

Can anyone else confirm if they've got this to work, or knows of any other drivers to use?

Andy