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Thanks for jumping in guys. that is good news. I had to listen to the blooody radio on my drive tonight! 8-O

So let me get this straight. Under Linux I can use the USB adapter. Under Windows, no. I should be able to restore the firmware on my Empeg with my desktop machine that has a serial port on it. After that if I want to try to use the USB-serial adapter I need to use Linux..otherwise under windows stick to true-blue serial ports. About right?

If so, does anyone know WHY that is? I'm just curious. I got this USB serial adapter for something else and this is the first time I've tried to use it. I wonder if it will be a problem elsewhere also.


I've been slightly mis-quoted here (but you can still re-read my original posting above).
You can "fix" your player using Tony's LogoEdit utility to download/install a fresh Hijack kernel with the USB/serial dongle under MS-Windows. Odds are excellent that your player will have full functionality after about 2-minutes of effort, and you cannot screw it up any worse.

Once you have Hijack installed, you can use my upgrader software to re-apply the .upgrade file, if you still want to upgrade, totally avoiding the USB/serial issue. upgrader is a Linux program, but other(s) here have produced a win32 (MS-Windows) executable of it that you could seek out and use.

-ml