[hpsdr] Beating a very dead horse

[Bill Tracey]

As to #3 take a look @ 
svn://206.216.146.154/svn/repos_sdr_hpsdr/trunk/KD5TFD/PowerSDR/HPSDR-1.6.3/HPSDR-docs/Ahti-USB.txt 


My understanding on this driver is that the latest version of it is 
libusb based which I think translates the problem into does libusb 
work on Vista.  I've heard conflicting reports. I do not have Vista 
so cannot say in a first hand way one way or the other.

Regards,

Bill (kd5tfd)

At 04:52 PM 10/19/2008, Christopher T. Day wrote:
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>Hi, all. I haven't been doing much radio or following these lists 
>closely for the last year or so. In the meantime, work has pushed me 
>to move to Vista. Apparently, the driver for FlexRadio's 
>USB-to-Parallel adapter never was ported to Vista, so my SDR-1000 is 
>dead in the water. Some things I seem to remember from past discussions:
>1)      The FlexRadio USB-to-Parallel adapter has custom microcode 
>in it to make the PowerSDR interface simpler and more efficient; 
>this is why a standard USB-to-Parallel adapter won't work.
>2)      FlexRadio nor any of us had access to the microcode source, 
>but I thought we knew who did. Was that true? I take it nobody 
>managed to convince the owner to either update the driver or release 
>the source. Is that true?
>3)      I thought we at least had the definition of the interface as 
>seen by PowerSDR, which at least raised the possibility of a 
>clean-room construction of a driver. Was that true? If so, anybody 
>know where that spec is?
>No, I don't want to go back to XP, or at least it is not a practical 
>option. No, I don't have room for another dedicated XP machine. No, 
>there seems to be no way I can add a real parallel port to my PC.
>
>Can anyone provide me with a summary of the current situation re 
>rolling our own driver so that I can use my SDR-1000 again? Thanks.
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>                 Chris
>                 AE6VK
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