[Elecraft] kX3 - firmware update problem - no comms and MCU LD

[Peter Eijlander (PA0PJE)]

Maybe to you it did, Bill, and I don't know why but in my case that did 
not help. Only putting me to the dialout group worked immediately.

Maybe other Linux flavors put users in this group by default or others 
used a root account instead of their own.

73,
Peter

Op 2014-09-12 00:47 schreef Nr4c:
> Read the manual, as I did. Unhook everything from KX3 and connect computer to KX3. Restart utility and it will continue load. Took a few tries but eventually worked.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
> ...nr4c. bill
>
>
>> On Sep 11, 2014, at 11:57 AM, "Peter Eijlander (PA0PJE)" <pa0pje at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>
>> I had the same issue in Ubuntu Linux. The reason was that by default only root has access to /dev/ttyUSB0.
>> If you add yourself to the group "dialup" like this:
>>
>> In a terminal do at the ~$ prompt:
>>
>> sudo usermod -a -G dialout <username>
>>
>> where <username> should be your name as shown on the prompt before the @...
>>
>> log out then log in again and start the utility. By then it should work ok. At least to me it did....:-)
>>
>> Canonical seems not to like people to mess around with group policies therefore leaves out a gui application to set them.
>>
>> should you still want one:
>> sudo apt-get install gnome-system-tools
>>
>> 73,
>> Peter
>>
>>
>>
>> Op 2014-04-24 02:14 schreef Don Wilhelm:
>>> Darren,
>>>
>>> That level is the MAC version of KX3 Utility, I use Windows, so I can't
>>> help on the Utility.
>>> I would suggest that you power everything down including the computer,
>>> then follow the steps in the KX3 manual to force a firmware load.
>>>
>>> 73,
>>> Don W3FPR
>>>
>>>> On 4/23/2014 7:52 PM, Darren Long wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I've just tried a firmware update using KX3 Utility rev 1.14.4.11 which
>>>> failed early on, leaving the KX3 stuck showing "MCU LD" and KX3 Utility
>>>> unable to communicate with the rig.
>>>>
>>>> How should I proceed?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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