I am running a Flex 3000 currently with the latest software and firewire drives from the website without any issues. I'm also running the latest Windows 7..
-----Original Message----- From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of Tim (W4TME) Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 11:26 AM To: 'FlexRadio Reflector'; flexe...@flex-radio.biz Subject: [Flexradio] Using the FLEX-x000 on Windows 7 To all Flexers, Windows 7 has been officially released. So the question is, can I use it with a FLEX-x000 software defined radio and is it fully supported. The answers are "yes" and "not yet". The FLEX-x000 software defined radio uses an OEMed Firewire device driver to communicate between the radio hardware and the computer's operating system. This driver has to be Win7 compliant as a perquisite for PowerSDR and the FLEX-5000/3000 to be fully supported under Win7. Currently the v3.4.2.6300 of the FLEX Firewire driver is not. The FlexRadio development team was promised a compliant beta Win7 driver earlier this month and the driver OEM didn't meet their deliverable. Hopefully it will be arriving shortly. To make things more complicated, Microsoft decided to completely re-write the 1394 bus driver architecture that has made it incompatible will all previous Firewire device drivers. This is what has delayed the delivery of the Win7 FLEX Firewire driver. Fortunately, Microsoft has provided a "workaround" so that older Firewire device drivers will inter-operate with Win7 known as the "legacy" driver. It is actually the older Vista driver. There is a KB article that describes how to change the 1394ohci.sys bus driver from the native Win7 driver to the "legacy" driver. http://kc.flex-radio.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50433.aspx While PowerSDR 1.18.3 is not an approved Win7 application, numerous people are using it without any problems, so if you make the change to the legacy 1394ohci.sys bus driver, you should have no problems using your FLEX-x000 SDR with Win7. Now, the above statements are *only* applicable to the released version of PowerSDR v1.18.3. If you are using experimental or alpha software, you may or may not be able to use your radio with Win7. If it works, it works. If it doesn't, you are on your own. FlexRadio Systems will not provide support for experimental or alpha software, so if you are having problems with it and Win7, please do not contact Dudley (supp...@flex-radio.com) for assistance. You can post your questions regarding experimental or alpha software to the FlexEdge reflector for user based support. FlexRadio is working diligently towards making the entire system Win7 compliant when PowerSDR 2.0 is released and the FLEX Firewire driver can use the native Win7 1394ohci.sys bus driver later this year. At that time there will no longer be any caveats or workarounds needed and the software & hardware will be fully Win7 complaint and supported by FlexRadio Systems. -Tim -- W4TME FlexRadio Systems - Info Management Admin. "Tune in Excitement" _______________________________________________ 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://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to anth...@consultexcel.com.au _______________________________________________ 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://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
