[hpsdr] Failed to program Mercury

[Sid Boyce]

Dale Boresz wrote:
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> 
> Bob,
> 
> Have you tried Virtual Box yet? It's Open Source and licensed under the
> GPL.
> < http://www.virtualbox.org/ >
> 
> I've been using it for a couple of years under Ubuntu to run Windows
> 2003 Server Edition vm's, and it has performed very well. Haven't tried
> their virtual USB controllers yet, but it's an easy install, and seems
> pretty lightweight to me.
> 
> 73, Dale
> WA8SRA
> 
I wondered if anyone had done this successfully. My laptop with XP died.
Yesterday I installed XP in VirtualBox to interface with a Softrock v6.3
transceiver. I was able to configure PowerSDR-sr40, Rocky and
PowerSDR-iq to work work with ATTiny45/Si570 and the E-MU0404 USB sound
card, but all I got from the VAC was either silence or a strange noise,
panadaptor displaying what looked like a large amplitude RF sine wave.
73 ... Sid.

> 
> Bob Cowdery wrote:
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>> I pressed into service my wife's machine which is a pretty slow 2.8GHz
>> Celron. After a bit of messing with getting the right levels of software
>> on and a few crashes I managed to program Mercury and it all works on
>> air very nicely. It looks like the VMWare emulation of USB2 is very
>> slow. In fact I can tell from the difference in the speed it went
>> through initozy11.bat how slow it was. I have 2.5 on Mercury now and
>> that is even worse if I try it on VMWare, there is nothing discernible
>> as a signal so I guess it takes more bandwidth. This is a big
>> disappointment to me that I will have to re-evaluate how I do
>> development. Nothing to do with the guys who developed the boards and
>> software who have done a fantastic job. I take my hat off to you.
>>
>> 73
>> Bob
>> G3UKB
>>
>> On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 08:03 +0000, Bob Cowdery wrote:
>>  
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>>> Bill
>>> As per the instructions Mercury is in 6 and Ozy in 5. I checked the PSU
>>> voltages and they are all fine. I'm going to have to build an XP machine
>>> to see if this emulated USB2 is the root of all evil although I would
>>> have though the critical timing would be between Ozy and Mercury for
>>> programming.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Bob
>>>
>>> On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 22:26 -0600, Bill Tracey wrote:
>>>    
>>>> Bob,
>>>>
>>>> What slot were Mercury and Ozy in?  If Ozy is in J(n) Mercury needs
>>>> to be in J(n+1).    The J(n) labels are silk screened on the Atlas
>>>> board.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Bill (kd5tfd)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> At 03:59 PM 2/4/2009, Bob Cowdery wrote:
>>>>      
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>>>>>
>>>>> I seem to having far more than my fair share of problems. I tried to
>>>>> update Mercury firmware and all went well until I got this. Yes I did
>>>>> put the jumper on Mercury. Any ideas would be very welcome.
>>>>>
>>>>> Bob
>>>>> G3UKB
>>>>> <snipped>
>>>>>         
>>>>       


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