[hpsdr] Mercury - Alpha 3 results

[Philip Covington]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Joe - AB1DO <ab1do at optonline.net> wrote:
> ***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****
> On another note, I just read on the Flex reflector that the USB to parallel
> adapter for the SDR-1000 won't work under vista, because there is no vista
> version of the USBIO driver. It struck me that we use the same driver for
> Ozy and that therefore the same then holds.. Is this true? What about
> LibUSB? In the manual, should we revert back to advising to install LibUSB
> instead?
>
> It would be a shame to end up with a state-of-the-art transceiver, kind of
> stuck in an aging operating system (and no, I'm no fan of vista, but it will
> be unavoidable as computers get updated. Not many people own a non-oem
> version of  XP).
>
> 73 de Joe - AB1DO

It appears that you can write user mode drivers for USB with UMDF:

<http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/driver/wdf/USB_WDF.mspx>

I wonder if these need to be signed on 64 bit Vista?  If not, this
would probably be the way to go on Windows.

Regards,

-- 
Phil Covington
Software Radio Laboratory LLC
Columbus, Ohio
http://www.srl-llc.com

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