[hpsdr] win 7 x64 error PowerSDR driver - help needed second attempt

[Bill Tracey]

Hi Georg,

I don't think the porttalk  stuff matters - that's all legacy stuff 
for the SDR 1000 parallel port control and pretty much fails with no 
ill side effect as far as I know.   If you want to eliminate it 
completely I believe adding  --neuterPP to the command line arguments 
should short circuit all references to porttalk.

I'm not 100% convinced the hardware config is OK ... we're definitely 
seeing the FX2 on the USB bus since we're able to get a version 
number from it and can talk to the I2C bus  on Penelope - that all 
goes through the FX2.   The lack of version info for Ozy, Merc and 
Penny is not a good sign and the OzyBulkRead failed messages are 
definitely a problem.

Can you try it with a minimal configuration - just Ozy and one Mercury card?

Regards,

Bill (kd5tfd)



At 09:24 AM 3/3/2011, Georg Prinz wrote:
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>
>Hello Everyone,
>
>I am still struggling to get Joe's diversity18 system into operation on
>win7 x64bit OS with adapted PowerSDR program and OZY board for
>communication.
>
>In the meantime I found porttalk.sys in Joe's release folder and 
>copied it into \windows\system32\drivers. Unfortunately with no 
>result (as I expected). The error messages are the same.
>Nevertheless driver loading should be automatically done.
>
>The system device manager says, that LibUSB-Win32 Devices by 
>FlexRadio/OpenHPSDR.org/Acquisition Logic is working properly.
>
>Furthermore, on both mercury boards, the led for "fpga loaded 
>properly2 is on. The two most left leds indicating "code running" are blinking.
>
>I hope that this second attempt will reach someone with a window 7 
>x64 system to give me support.
>
>
>
>Following history:
>
>- I am using signed driver by K9TRV downloaded form "repos hpsdr kiss"
>- Loading of Joe's firmware version 6.3 into both mercury boards and v.
>6.1 into Penelope without any problems and errors
>
>Results:
>
>1st check starting initozy11.bat and redirect standard error to a file
>shows following situation:
>
>- PID and VID recognized
>- loadFW ozyfw-sdr1k.hex succeeded (UploadFirmware returns 742)
>- LoadFPGA succeeded (114963 bytes transferred)
>- writeI2C 0xfffe 0x7 0x1a ..... failed is correct, for no Janus board
>- writeI2C 0xfffe 0x7 0x1b ..... all 8 calls succeeded for penny
>
>2nd check starting PowerSDR.exe and redirect standard error to a file
>shows following situation:
>
>- Error message :"Invalid firmware level is loaded ozy v16, pen. v12 and
>merc. v27 and PowerSDR stops
>- Output on standard error channel:
>   -- PortTalk: Unknown error while starting PortTalk driver service
>   -- Does PortTalk.SYS exist in your \System32 Drivers Directory?
>   -- Couldn't access PortTalk Driver, Please ensure driver is loaded
>   -- Error occured during outportb while talking to PortTalk driver 6
>
>3rd check starting PowerSDR.exe --no-firmware-version-check 2>&1>
>log.txt showing  following situation:
>- PowerSDR is more or less running with noise floor about -130dBm
>- Output on standard error channel:
>   -- same as above plus
>         --- using Ozy/Janus callback
>         --- version:>20090524<
>         --- sa: samples_per_block: 2048
>         --- fx2: 20090524
>         --- Ozy: 0
>         --- merc: 0
>         --- penny: 0
>         --- Firmware ver check forced good!
>         --- OzyBulkRead failed rc=-116
>
>The System32 folder does not contain PortTalk driver so far I can see.
>The same under SysWOW64 folder.
>
>I also tried different USB port and shorter USB cable (5m and 1,5m)
>
>The harwardware seems to be ok. Otherwise PowerSDR wouldn't work when
>started with no version check.
>
>73, Georg - dl2kp


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