[hpsdr] Beating a very dead horse

[Bill Tracey]

Good news on libusb on Vista 32 - that's good to hear. As  to Vista 
64 .. ugh.  I hate rewriting the code to work with WinUSB just 
because MS is insisting on signed drivers for Vista 64.  IMHO as the 
owner of the computer, if I want it to run an unsigned driver I 
should have that ability.  Guess the boys at MS don't share my view 
it's my computer.

Cheers,

Bill (kd5tfd)

At 05:11 AM 10/20/2008, Philip Covington wrote:

>libusb does work on Vista 32.  I've switched to Visa SP1 and have had
>zero problems with libusb.
>
>On Vista 64 there is the problem of driver signing.  You can get
>around this by entering a driver test mode on boot, but you have to
>intervene at boot time every time.
>
>You can write a user mode driver for USB devices with the UMDF using
>WinUSB.  You do not need to sign user mode drivers, so this appears to
>be the way forward for USB devices on Vista 64.
>
>--
>Phil Covington
>Software Radio Laboratory LLC
>Columbus, Ohio
>http://www.srl-llc.com



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