On Jul 16, 2008, at 1:13 PM, Jim Lux wrote: > At 12:59 PM 7/16/2008, Brian Lloyd wrote: >> Yesterday was a personally frustrating day in that three of my good >> students (all who have gotten their licenses, one who upgraded to >> general even) are moving and will not be returning to our school in >> the fall. That puts a dent in my science/robotics/ham-radio program >> at >> my school. Finding yet another roadblock in the day, i.e. not being >> able to use the shack computer for the Flex5000, was just over-the- >> top. So I seriously posted my question about getting things running >> on >> the Mac and humorously (well maybe not-so-humorously) commented about >> the Flex5000 being an inert lump. Sorry. >> >> I made everything run last night. I took a server box that is slated >> to be a file server running Solaris and temporarily loaded Windows XP >> on it in order to get the Flex5000 running. I wanted to run it in >> plain-vanilla, out-of-the-box mode first before I start making >> changes >> to the software environment. Nothing is more annoying than to not >> know >> which of your changes caused the system to stop working. >> >> Oh man, the 5000 is a truly awe inspiring radio! >> >> And I still want to make it work natively with MacOS. > > > Native, as in not in an emulation or VM environment?
Correct. Running a VM environment was my first plan until I discovered that none of the VM packages that host Windows under MacOS support Firewire. As I indicated, I wanted to make the Flex work with PowerSDR so I could be sure that any problems that then developed later were software, not hardware problems. > Making the 5000 "work" is probably doable fairly easily (after all, > the interfaces are standard MIDI and audio devices), however porting > PowerSDR from VC2003 to something on the Mac is going to be an > ordeal.... I wouldn't even consider it. > dttsp is vanilla C, and it should work with a recompile (I believe > there are folks running dttsp on the Mac in native mode.. Frank > AB2KT would know) > > You might be best off trying one of the java control engines that > runs dttsp That is my long-term plan. I was just trying to get the Flex on-the- air in the short term using PowerSDR just to make sure everything works and to not have to do debugging of combined hardware/software problems. > > > http://javaguifordttsp.blogspot.com/ Thanks. -- 73 de Brian, WB6RQN Brian Lloyd - brian HYPHEN wb6rqn AT lloyd DOT com _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
