Hello All I recently ordered a KRX3A and KSYN3A board for my K3. I was running firmware version 4.58 so I thought I'd better update it in readiness for the new arrivals.
The computer I use for radio is 32 bit running Win98se, it works very well with my homebrew logging program which integrates with the K3. I did try porting it to WinXP but met with problems, "if it ain't broke don't fix it", so stuck with 98se. This computer dual boots to Linux Mint12, which runs K3utils. My internet computer is 64 bit and dual boots Win7 and Linux Mint17. I use Mint17 for all internet work so I downloaded the Latest Linux K3utils (1_14_10_24) and installed it, I tried to run it nothing happened. After a session of 'Googling' I found that K3utils is 32 bit and needed 32 bit files loading to make it run on a 64 bit machine, I decided against this and downloaded all the .hex files, transfering these to Linux Mint12, connected the K3, and tried running the Util. It could not find the port displaying the message 'access denied'. After trying various things, without success, I went 'Googling' again, this time I found the problem was, as the User, I wasn't a member of the group 'Dialout', which gives access to serial ports on Linux, on joining this group the Util now worked OK. It was Sunday afternoon with time to spare before my evening meal, I decided to bite the bullet and run the upgrade to 5.29. I had not updated the firmware for a while and could not remember how long it took. Off it went, my meal was ready and still it churned on and seemed to be running slower and slower, I left it, had my meal and came back to find it was still plodding on. It took 4400 seconds according to the display on the Util. With fingers crossed I turned the K3 off and on again, yippee it worked, very much to my relief, in view of some of the problems posted on the reflector. The newly ordered parts arrived and were duly installed. I had to run the K3util to install the firmware for DSP2, this took 2200+ seconds, is this normal for firmware loading? All is working FB, and getting to grips with listening to different stations in each ear!! If anybody else has the same or similar problems, I hope in some way this helps, If nothing else it might have caused a chuckle or two. Cheers and 73's Gray G3VIP (K3 sn:5845) ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
