[Elecraft] Question about K3 utility for the Mac

[W7TEA]

David, do you know if there will be an update to
the Mac utility to bring it in line with the Windows
version?  My K3 is less than a week old and I used
1.1.4.1 to load firmware 2.02 successfully but wonder
if 1.1.6.3 has some advantages.

Gary W7TEA



David Fleming-2 wrote:
> 
> Hi Dale,
> 
> No there hasn't been any new updates since 1.1.4.1.
> It's odd that 1.1.4.1 would report that you need to
> install a new version unless you had the utility
> pointing to a firmware folder containing an older
> version of K3UtilityVersionInfo.txt. Make sure you
> have the most current firmware files downloaded from
> the Elecraft server in your firmware folder. This is
> the first time I've heard of a kernel panic (or hard
> crash). I'm running 10.5.3 without problems. If it
> should happen again, try to recall the steps you took
> to cause the crash to occur and let me know.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> David, W4SMT
> 
> 
> --- dalej <dalej2 at mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> I have had a couple of serious hangs on the K3
>> utility in the last  
>> couple days after not having used it in some time,
>> they were in fact  
>> so bad it caused what appeared to be a kernel panic,
>> I couldn't even  
>> force quit it, and when I went to restart the
>> computer, it wouldn't  
>> force quit it then either!  I had to turn off the
>> computer to get the  
>> K3 utility to quit.  This morning I trashed
>> everything and downloaded  
>> the zip and reinstalled it, then opened it up and it
>> said I needed to  
>> download a newer version.  So I went back in and
>> downloaded from the  
>> same link what appeared to be the same version I've
>> been using, (now  
>> v. 1.1.4.1) it now seems to be working ok again. 
>> Has there been any  
>> changes to the Mac version of the K3 utility lately?
>>  I'm using OS  
>> 10.5.3, the latest and is it safe to assume it's
>> compatible with OS  
>> 10.5?
>> 
>> tnx
>> Dale
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