Peter, You're right on the technical point. We *could* set it up so that the virtual COM ports are only available once you launch PowerSDR. But why would we want to limit the capabilities like that?
Personally, I'd rather have a general purpose application for configuring virtual COM ports (thanks to N8VB we have that for no cost). And I'd rather have a flexible way to route audio data to various programs (we have this in VAC albeit for a ~$40 charge). Building them in would not necessarily simplify the setup (other than obtaining the programs themselves). In fact, it would make it more complex for those that don't use these features. Eric Wachsmann FlexRadio Systems > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > radio.biz] On Behalf Of Peter G. Viscarola > Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 8:54 AM > To: FlexRadio List > Subject: Re: [Flexradio] instead of mugs > > (sorry to be late to reply... I've been "away") > > <QUOTE> > Anything that requires a device driver to run PowerSDR, such as VAC, > VCOM and the new F5K firewire driver must be loaded at boot time. It's > a windoze thing. > </QUOTE> > > This is not correct. You can load and unload drivers for any device at > any time in Windows. Try it: Go to Device Manger, right click on a > device and click "disable" (hopefully, not one you need to make your > computer functional... try the CD-ROM). If you have only one CD-ROM in > your system, the driver will entirely unload from memory. Now right > click and select "enable"... the driver will be immediately loaded. > > Consider things like USB devices. Plug in the device... the driver is > loaded. Unplug the device, the driver unloads. > > de Peter K1PGV > (I might not know much about DSP, but I write Windows drivers for a > living) > > > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ > FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
