Hi everyone, There must be an easy way to load Keps from a file on a 3 1/2" floppy, but what is it? (No internet on this laptop, but a floppy drive.)
I have 1 USB port that I hope to use for rig control, Where can I find a proper driver for a USB flash drive that the laptop won't recognize? I think this laptop (Dell Inspiron 3800) was made before these flash drives became fashionable.
Many tnx and 73, Tony, N2UN LM 183
Hi Tony,
You can manually move them. Bring up two directory windows one with the floppy drive and one with the SatPC32 kep directory (generally C:\Program Files\SatPC32\Kepler). I would recommend that you rename the kep file on the floppy drive as amateur.txt or nasa.all, so that it will make it easier for SatPC32 to use the new file without your having to select a new filename each update. Then just select the filename after selecting Satellites . Whatever name you select will be used each time you startup SatPC32, until you change it,
73, Gould ----- Original Message ----- From: "ANTHONY JAPHA" tjjapha@earthlink.net To: "amsat-bb" amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 8:14 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] SatPC32 question
Hi everyone, There must be an easy way to load Keps from a file on a 3 1/2" floppy, but what is it? (No internet on this laptop, but a floppy drive.)
I have 1 USB port that I hope to use for rig control, Where can I find a proper driver for a USB flash drive that the laptop won't recognize? I think this laptop (Dell Inspiron 3800) was made before these flash drives became fashionable.
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What operating system are you using? With XP, I have never run into a flash drive that required a driver. They just worked.
However, with Win98SE, I had to download a driver from Sandisk before my Cruzer drive would work. Their site specifically states that no driver is required for Windows ME, 2000, or XP, as well as Mac OS 9.1 or 10.1.2+
The other possibility is that you may need to download a driver from Dell for the port itself...
George, KA3HSW
----- Original Message ----- From: "ANTHONY JAPHA" tjjapha@earthlink.net To: "amsat-bb" amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 7:14 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] SatPC32 question
Hi everyone, There must be an easy way to load Keps from a file on a 3 1/2" floppy, but what is it? (No internet on this laptop, but a floppy drive.)
I have 1 USB port that I hope to use for rig control, Where can I find a proper driver for a USB flash drive that the laptop won't recognize? I think this laptop (Dell Inspiron 3800) was made before these flash drives became fashionable.
Many tnx and 73, Tony, N2UN LM 183
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