[hpsdr] Metis - what am I doing wrong?!

[Chris Smith]

Phil

You genius! I'm feeling rather red-faced as the problem was mostly of my making.

There is only one NIC on the PC I use for PowerSDR *BUT* I have a VPN set up for contact with my office. Unfortunately, under WinXP and probably all other manifestations of MS-Win, Windows sets up a virtual Ethernet adapter for VPNs in my case called "TAP-Win32 Adapter V8".

It appears that PowerSDR was always selecting that device in preference to the real Ethernet adapter. Only under KK was I able to see both adapters presented for selection. Strangely, though, even when I selected the real adapter I was unable to use it. KK pops up a message to the effect that KK needs to be restarted to use the newly selected adapter. However, when KK is restarted it reverts to the virtual adapter.

So I disabled the virtual adapter and KK sprang to life. Then I ran PowerSDR and that works too. Great! 

Many, many thanks Phil. It's a pity Perth is so far from Sydney or else I would drop in and shake you by the hand when I'm in Aus next month.

Cheers & vy 73

Chris G4NUX


On 13 Mar 2011, at 02:55, Phil Harman wrote:

> Hi Chris,
> 
> Sorry to see you are having so many problems. I guess the positive side is we will find the problem and fix it and that will make the overall solution even better.
> 
> You can find KK on the openHPSDR downloads page - click on
> 
> Kiss-Konsole Ethernet: KK-Windows-32_Ethernet.zip
> 
> 
> 
> It's only 4 files so a simple install. Look in Setup>Ethernet and select your NIC - I suspect this is the problem you are having with PowerSDR, its selecting the wrong device.
> 
> Hang in there - we will solve it!
> 
> 73 Phil...VK6APH
> 


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