>J.A. Wolf, MD, K6JW wrote: >> >> When I try to upload new firmware, I seem to get frequent failures >> during the FPF load. This has happened both with 3.44 and 3.52. The upload >> fails at different stages of the FPF load each time, seemingly with no >> consistency or predictability. With repeated tries, the process finally >> completes and the remainder of the upload goes without a hitch. Am I alone >> in this, or is this a problem others have seen? >> >> In a recent message, "Julian, G4ILO" <julian.g4...@gmail.com> wrote ... >It crops up fairly often, with people who use USB to serial adapters. If you >have a desktop PC, consider purchasing a PCI serial board to give yourself a >real serial port.
Desktop owners may not even need to buy a PCI board as most motherboards already have a serial connection. All is needed is a 10-pin header to feed the port to D-9 plug on a back plate. It often puzzles me as to why so many people need to get a USB to serial adapter when all is needed is a bit of simple electronics. Perhaps this is beyond many of today's radio amateurs ;-( Of course, if a laptop/notebook computer is being used maybe an adapter is the only way. 73 -- David G4DMP Leeds, England, UK ------ ______________________________________________________________ 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
