KX3 FW Update

[W4JBB]

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
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[David Fleming-2]

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


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 From: Joel Black <[hidden email]>
To: elecraft <[hidden email]>
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
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[W4JBB]

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 <[hidden email]>
> *To:* elecraft <[hidden email]>
> *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
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