I apologize for dropping the lateral handoff from the Timster. To be honest, I haven't found many cards not working under win7/win764 so its hard to say anything isn't okay. The only ones I have had problems with were native ports in Intel ICH10 chipsets and I have been able to bypass those with a USB hub in the middle.
I would naturally suggest staying away from JMicron chipsets as they appear to be complete crap in every venue, but I do not have any evidence of their USB stuff to say that. I think the better question is which ones do not work. Outside of Intel, has anyone got a horror story to tell?? 73 Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software www.abrohamnealsoftware.com (540) 645 5394 NEW PHONE NUMBER Amateur Radio: K3NC Blog: http://www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/blog/ DXBase bug reports: email to [email protected] Abroham Neal forums: http:/www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/community/ On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Tim Ellison <[email protected]> wrote: > Here are a few USB enhanced controllers that are for a PCI bus that > specifically claims Win7 (or Vista) compatibility. > > http://www.sonnettech.com/product/allegro_usb2.html > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815166014 > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815287002 > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815158102 > > > -Tim > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Tondee > Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2011 2:43 PM > To: Mike Ellerson > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Flex 1500...I'm lost and confused > > I have a Flex Radio tab in my device manager listings. Under it are two > listings, one for Flex 1500 Software defined radio and one for Flex USB > Kernel driver. The KB article states there should be a listing under Sound > and Video controllers as well. I have no doubt that this is probably > incorrect information being that the release notes for the beta software > which really should be the most up to date info available is apparently in > error about the driver and input/output tabs. > I consider myself a pretty computer savvy person and I know PowerSDR is in > beta still. Coupled with the fact that the 1500 is still relatively new, I > accept the fact that it isn't necessarily "plug and play" and that there > will be bumps in the road but it doesn't help one solve problems if there is > out of date info on the manufacturer website. > This info may have absolutely nothing to do with my issues but it needs to > be updated so as not to confuse people trying to troubleshoot. > I actually think part of my problems stem from the fact that my computer > apparently on has one internal USB hub that all six available USB ports are > attached to. Makes it hard to put the Flex on it's own dedicated USB hub > which is what I'd like to do. Unfortunately the only slots I have left > avaiable in my PC are straight PCI and not PCIe and I have yet to find a > PCI USB card that specifies that it is Windows 7 compatible or has > compatible drivers. I have an older Belkin PCI USB 2.0 card here and > although the PC recognizes it, there is either a problem with the hardware > or a driver issue because Win 7 cannot install it. It gives " error code 10, > device cannot start" which my research indicates is usually a driver issue. > I have tried letting Win 7 install generic drivers as well as trying to > install the old XP drivers, neither solution works. > Michael > On 2/13/2011 2:04 PM, Mike Ellerson wrote: > > On my WIN7 machine the flex drivers do not show up under the audio > listing. They are listed in their own category. > > > > Sent from my Samsung Captivate(tm) on AT&T > > > > Mike Ellerson<[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > There are no options under the Audio tab for sound card. There are only > settings for VAC input / output. The audio for the Radio will come out of > the head phone jack. The clicking sounds usually means that the buffer size > is to small for your current computer configuration. Increase the buffer > size in the audio settings. Another thing to check is install a CPU meter > plugin for the Win 7 sidebar and see if your CPU is getting dragged down by > something. You can check what is pulling CPU cycles by doing Alt Ctrl Delete > and selecting the task manager. You may need to disable the offending > program/task. > > > > Ks4ju > > Mike > > > > Sent from my iPad > > > > On Feb 13, 2011, at 12:30 PM, "Michael Tondee"<[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> Probably won't be the last time either! I'm using Windows 7 and my Flex > 1500 appears to be working OK but there is an annoying clicking present on > receive audio. In researching the problem, I have come up with two pieces > of information that have me a bit befuddled. > >> The first is in the release notes for the Power SDR 2.x beta. They state > I should go to the audio tab under setup and click the driver tab to set the > driver to "Windows WASAPI" and set input and output to mic and speakers > respectively. > >> I have no such options, the only option I have under the audio tab is to > set the buffer size which by the way, I have no idea what value to use for > it either. Only place I can find an option for setting a driver is under the > VAC tab and "WASAPI" is not even an option there. Mic and speaker options > are non existent anywhere. > >> Further research takes me to the KB and leads me to my second issue > where there is an article on verifying if my USB drivers are correctly > installed.. Both the USB items that need to show do indeed appear in my > device manager. However, according to the article, "Flex l500" should appear > as a device under my Sound Video and game controllers tab and it doesn't. > >> So....I am a bit lost and confused here. As I said, the radio appears to > be working except for the annoying clicking but according to the two pieces > of info I have cited above, something isn't right. > >> BTW, I though the clicking might be caused by my USB keyboard being on > the same hub as the rig but unplugging the keyboard has no effect on the > clicking. > >> For all the recent talk about firewire vs USB, I have to say that > setting up the 5K I used to own on this very same computer was a piece of > cake compared to setting up the 1500. > >> A bit of help would be appreciated, > >> Michael, W4HIJ > >> > >> > > > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio Systems Mailing List > [email protected] > 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.flexradio.com/ Homepage: > http://www.flexradio.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio Systems Mailing List > [email protected] > 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.flexradio.com/ Homepage: > http://www.flexradio.com/ > _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List [email protected] 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.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
