[hpsdr] Vista: cup now full! (was Re: vista: cup half full)

[Bill Tracey]

Ken,

You got me thinking with your statement that PowerSDR runs fine once 
we get the hardware initialized.  All of the libusb stuff from 
PowerSDR proper is done in native code, while the device loading 
routines are C# thru an adapter layer.   As it turns out there's a 
Linux version of the loader routines that are native code -- build 
'em on Windows and what do you know, I can now init Ozy!!

So for those wanting to get Vista32 working 
grab  http://tracey.org/wjt/hpsdr/temp/initvista.zip and unzip it to 
your PowerSDR  directory.  Then rename these files in the PowerSDR dir:

         rename initozy11.bat ---> initozy11.bat.hidden
         rename initozy-vista.bat  ---> initiozy11.bat

You should now be able to run PowerSDR and Ozy FX2 and FPGA loading 
should work.

This works on my Vista32 machine, will be interested to hear how it 
does for other Vista32 folks.  If this works for other Vista folks 
I'll pull this loading method into the mainline package.

Cheers,

Bill (kd5tfd)

At 04:20 PM 1/12/2009, Ken wrote:
>I should have included in my posting a reminder (as other folks have 
>mentioned) that, once you load the firmware, PowerSDR itself works 
>great under Vista32, using whatever part of the driver is needed to 
>pump voluminous data both ways thru the USB port. The audio part 
>works fine. No need to touch PowerSDR, just the initialization routines.
>
>The ones that crater are
>load_firmwareV1.1.exe
>upload_fpgav1.1.exe
>Since these are kind of generic tasks, I would hope that someone has 
>something quite similar to what we need already running somewhere.
>
>For now, I guess I will have the two machines side by side with a 
>KVM switch. HPSDR does not mind being switched betweeb two machines 
>on-the-fly (although I do put the PowerSDR program in stop).
>
>Ken
>KE2N
>



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