[hpsdr] Failed to program Mercury

[Bob Cowdery]

Sid

I have run the SDR1000 with various versions of my own software on VM's,
both XP and Ubuntu for a long time but only using the emulated sound
card. I never tried VAC. Virtulisation is improving in leaps and bounds
and it will get there. I'm tempted to try VMWare ESXi which runs on the
bare metal but I'm not prepared to trash my machine to try it. I might
dig out an old 2.4GHz box from the garage.

Bob
 
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 17:21 +0000, Sid Boyce wrote:
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> 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:
> >>  
> >>> ***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****
> >>>
> >>> 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:
> >>>>      
> >>>>> ***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 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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