[Elecraft] KX3 FW Update

[Joel Black]

David,

I am going back trying to re-create the problem.

In Mountain Lion, trying to load v1.36/1.05, I am getting the same issue 
- the KX3 Utility fails at the DSP load.  My KX3 shows, "dsp LOAD" and 
the KX3 Utility has failed.  In case it is noteworthy, the RX meter is 
full scale.  I *did* reload the driver for the KXUSB. The latest version 
on the FTDI website is 2.2.18.  That is what was in my downloads folder 
and I am assuming I was using that version before.  For good measure, I 
re-installed the FTDI driver.

In the Mac version of the KX3 Utility, I have 17 pages of error 
messages/system stats.  I don't know if you'd want to look at all 17 
pages or not.  I don't really know at what I'm looking.  I did notice this:

Exception Type:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes:  KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x00000000000945fb

Using the KX3 Utility for Windows in VMware, I just got finished down 
grading back to 1.36/1.05 and then upgrading to 1.41/1.13.  I had no 
issues this time.  The only thing I did differently was re-load the same 
FTDI drivers.  Apparently, I was not holding my mouth right last night.  ;)

Let me know if you would like to look at the Mac utility errors.

Thanks,
Joel - W4JBB

On 4/1/13 6:45 PM, David Fleming wrote:
> Hi Joel,
>
> Is the failure you get with the Mac version of the Utility the same as 
> you get using VMWare Fusion running Windows?
>
> Do you have the latest driver installed for your USB/Serial adapter? 
> Do have access to another USB/Serial adapter to try as a test?
>
> David, W4SMT
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Joel Black <w4jbb at charter.net>
> *To:* elecraft <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
> *Sent:* Monday, April 1, 2013 7:08 PM
> *Subject:* [Elecraft] KX3 FW Update
>
> Wow...  The audio change is great.  As is the LED brightness.  I have 
> not had a chance to play with the rest of it.
>
> I will say that I thought I bricked my KX3 during the FW upload.  As 
> usual, I could not get the Mac version to complete the update.  The FW 
> would load, but the DSP would not.  I tried just uploading the DSP and 
> the Mac version would not let me.  Booted into VMware and tried there 
> with no success.  Finally, booting into BootCamp got me going again.
>
> I have *no* luck updated FW on the KX3 or the P3 with the Mac 
> utility.  I just updated the K3 with the Mac utility with no issues.  
> I have no idea why the difference.
>
> 73,
> Joel - W4JBB
> ______________________________________________________________
> Elecraft mailing list
> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft
> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
> Post: mailto:Elecraft at mailman.qth.net <mailto:Elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
>
> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
>
>