I'm a big Pi fan myself. So if adding my voice provides any additional
influence - here it is. I'm also a programmer and I agree there is
extra work involved. If the utility was open source, then volunteers
could join in and manage the tool chain and build. I would certainly be
happy to make a contribution.
The Raspberry Pi is a very hot platform that gets more and more capable
with each new board. Version 3 is quite amazing. I can hardly tell I'm
running on a little ARM box. It's power is the result of the advances
in mobile platforms, so the future for these little computers is very
bright.
Doug -- K0DXV
On 12/13/2016 8:28 PM, James Bennett wrote:
Ah, crud - you know, I saw that "x86-based Linux” statement and it never dawned
on me about the Pi being ARM-based!!! I should have known that, as I went through a
ton of hoops getting WSJT-X and Hamlib running on the RPi because of that issue. In
both instances I had to compile from source. Once the dependencies were addressed,
the compilation process went well, although sloooooow. Well, I suppose Elecraft
doesn’t provide source for the utility, so I guess I’ve got to pull the cable off
the RPi and over to my iMac and run the Utility over there on OSX. Not cool, dang
it. Oh well…
Thanks for everyone’s input.
73 and Happy Holidays, Jim / W6JHB
Folsom, CA
On Tuesday, Dec 13, 2016, at Tuesday, 6:16 PM, Tim Elwell <kg1...@gmail.com>
wrote:
The utility is compiled for the x86 architecture. You won't be able to run it
on the ARM architecture that the Pi runs on. The only way to do that is for
Elecraft to compile a version for the ARM. Last I seem to recall being
mentioned, there wasn't enough need to spend the time setting up the tool chain
and dependencies for the ARM platform. It would be time best spent fixing other
problems.
I'm a Pi person myself and would like to see it for that platform, but do
understand as a programmer the difficulties of the extra support required for
another platform. And a small company has to watch their employee capital.
Here's hoping for the future, though.
Tim
KG1GEM
PS: Sorry Jim, I realized I mistakenly replied directly to you and not the list
originally.
On 12/13/16 7:53 PM, James Bennett wrote:
I’ve been using my KX3 connected to a Raspberry Pi 3 for quite some time, using
CQRlog for logging, FLDIGI for PSK31, and recently, WXJT-X rc3 for JT9 and
JT65. I’d like to load the most current firmware into the KX3 so I can get the
full 15 watts out. I downloaded and un-tar’d the KX3 Utility from the Elecraft
web site. So - now what? If I click on the “kx3util” executable, nothing
happens. What is the secret procedure to get this going? I am using the Raspian
Jessie (Debian Linux) OS on this RPi.
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