Hey Randy. Ready for a surprise? The FTDI driver is actually built in to Yosemite. Mavericks, too. That means you don’t need to download the driver from FTDI. Why is this important? In Yosemite, drivers must be signed. The ones on the FTDI site are not.
I didn’t believe this when I first heard it, so I tried an FTDI USB device with a fresh install (not upgrade) of Yosemite. It worked! The devices were recognized and worked properly. As a developer, I was surprised since I had seen no notification about this previously. 73, and glad you have things going. Jack B, W6FB > On Nov 16, 2014, at 11:08 AM, Randy Diddel <k5...@arrl.net> wrote: > > Don, > > You are correct. I tried it on a Mac with a brand new cable (I have many > extras as I have bought a lot of Elecraft toys). See my notes on the post > that just went to the reflector. Good ideas and I got to a solution just > before reading this. Thanks for the help. > > On a side note, I wish I could use a Mac in the shack for everything > natively (not in a VM like Parallels or VMWare, etc). > > Thanks for the input and 73, > > K5RHD > > /randy > > On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Don Wilhelm <w3...@embarqmail.com> wrote: > >> Randy, >> >> MCU LD is a normal display by the KX3 when waiting for firmware to be >> loaded. >> It may be that the KX3 is just sitting there waiting for the computer to >> feed it some data. >> >> Because this all started during a firmware update that stopped midstream >> for some unknown reason, I would suggest you be suspicious of the computer, >> the adapter cable and anything else associated with the serial connection. >> You may even want to try reloading the driver for the USB to serial adapter. >> >> It would be a shame to send the KX3 back to Elecraft only to discover that >> there was a problem at the computer end. If you have another computer (or >> can borrow one) try loading the USB cable adapter driver and KX3 Utility on >> that computer. If you have an XG3 signal generator, try using the same >> cable and the XG3 Utility - the cable for the XG3 and the KX3 are the same. >> >> 73, >> Don W3FPR >> >> >> On 11/16/2014 12:32 PM, Randy Diddel wrote: >> >>> As I stated. I have read the manua (RTFM)l and tried the EEINT proceedure >>> stated there. It will NOT respond to a Parameter INIT. It still says "MCU >>> LD." I have tried all documented solutions to get it back right. I >>> realize >>> that I would have to recalibrate or load original config file after but I >>> cannot even get there.... >>> >>> >>> >> > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 jackbrin...@me.com ______________________________________________________________ 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
