On 13/03/17 02:55, Jeff Hughes wrote: > Thanks, gentlemen. > > Well, the good news is I got my KX3 updated with the latest MCU and DSP > firmware. In the ~10 minutes or so it took me to compose my message > yesterday, the (different) computer I had connected to the radio just sat > there. I guess it needed the rest? after sending off my plea for help, I > turned back to it and tried again. Success! > > Since that computer (that successfully made the comm with my KX3) was the one > I updated to Apple?s latest OS (10.12 - Sierra), today I updated the OS on > one of the other Macs that had failed. Upon plugging in the KX3 and lighting > up the KX3 Utility, it immediately connected to it. I don?t recall seeing > anything in the Elecraft literature suggesting that 10.12 is required? but it > definitely seems to help. I?ve now talked to the KX3 with two different > computers. How reliable that connection might be, I suppose time will tell. > > FYI, Rich? Aye, my KX3 is new, fresh from the mothership. If I encounter > this problem again I?ll try dropping the baud rate. > > And, yeah, guys? MacLoggerDX has most definitely not been up while I was > trying to use KX3 Utility. > > Thanks again! > > 73, Jeff K4YWZ
Hi. This sounds more like the USB<>KX3 cable driver firing up as a Serial port that the updater was not defaulting to. That can happen if there is something else already connected to the computer that provides a "Serial" port for some other reason, before you plug in the KX3 cable. I've never seen the KX3 utility run on an Apple box, but on Windows and Linux, you get a chance to find and specify the serial port to use. 73 Dave G0WBX. (Also just recently updated a KX3 to the latest releases with no issues, using Linux Lite on an Acer One Netbook.) ~~~ ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
