[hpsdr] Problems with PowerSDR software

[Bill Tracey]

Well this should work -- I've got an Athlon and WinXP and it works 
fine for me.

Do you get anything more than "App has generated an exception".  If 
there's a back trace for the exception that would be useful.   Or can you run
     initozy11.bat >err.log 2>&1 and
send me the err.log file

It is somewhat perplexing that if you init the boards from the Intel 
machine all works well when running on the AMD machine.   It would 
seem there's some difference between the machines -- wonder if 
there's an older/different version of libusb running around on the 
AMD box.  I'd suggest grabbing Process Monitor from SysInternals.com 
and see if load_firmware11.exe looks to be loading things from 
unexpected places.

Regards,

Bill  (kd5tfd)


At 08:33 AM 11/11/2008, Chris Smith wrote:
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>Hi
>
>My apologies if this has been covered here already but I've searched
>the archive and haven't found a similar reference.
>
>I've installed the PowerSDR software (the kt5tfd PennyMerge branch)
>using Tortoise SVN plus the libusb driver (from the PowerSDR-163- 
>OzyJanus-2007May11.zip) on an Intel based system running WinXP Home.
>This is a test set-up and the load_firmwareV1.1.exe etc runs OK and I
>can control my Ozy/Janus/Penny kit.
>
>The system I want to use in anger is AMD Athlon based running WinXP
>Pro. I have followed the same installation procedure on this system
>but the load_firmwareV1.1.exe  always fails with a Common Language
>Runtime Debugging Services message: "Application has generated an
>exception that could not be handled." Running the code manually causes
>the same problem.
>
>If I load the firmware etc using the Intel based system then move the
>USB cable to the AMD based system then PowerSDR runs OK and I can
>control the hardware. So it seems that the libusb driver is installed
>and running OK for this function but not the load function. Odd!
>
>Has anyone else found this problem? Before you say "reload the driver"
>I have to point out that I've done that ad nauseam without any
>observable change in the behaviour.
>
>I'd like to get this running properly before I take delivery of the
>Mercury card. :-)
>
>Many thanks
>
>Chris
>
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