Can't update radio firmware, Can't detect modules. Ports "already in use"

[Flieronymus]

I installed the correct drivers for my Sparkfun USB Xbee dongles and they show up as COM6 and COM7 in my device manager. When I try to detect or add the modules in XCTU, I get “Could not find any device in port COM6(and 7)> Error initializing Xbee device parameters> Port is already in use by other applications.”

But I’m not running any other applications. I tried doing this in safe mode, but that didn’t work at all.

In addition, any time I or the program try to update the radiofirmware library, it generates the error message “Error while downloading Firmware library: the server name or address (ftp1.digi.com) could not be resolved”

I’d point it to a file location if I could ever find where to get the file from, but that’s nowhere to be found.

What direction should I move on this?

[csreddy]

i think the problem with pc.if you not closed com port properly the problem may happen.

try to reinstall the drivers once again and see

[Flieronymus]

How would I close my com port? This is not something that one would normally be expected to do. I’ve installed the driver twice and it still doesn’t work.