Re: [Flexradio] [FlexEdge] Computer complete lockup
Thanks, I think i may have to buy another hardware card and see if the card I have is the problem. I just read somewhere that not all hardware serial ports are created equal. Vendors are starting to use integrated software within addon cards to emulate hardware ports. I'll get a specified 16550 UART chip card, i think thats right, and try that. Thanks Vic On 5/8/2010 2:21 PM, Steve Nance wrote: Victor, I don't think DDUtil is the cause of your crashing problem. I would suspect a OS or video or other driver issue. The Passive Listener port is the preferred way to connect the AT-Auto to DDUtil unless there is a MAJOR reason you need to send commands to the tuner, which is what the repeater port is for. If you just have to talk to the tuner there is a different setup you have to use for the tuner. See section 10 in the Palstar manual for how to do this. Good luck. 73, Steve K5FR -Original Message- From: flexedge-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexedge-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of k4xtt Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 12:55 PM To: flexe...@flex-radio.biz; flex reflector Subject: [FlexEdge] Computer complete lockup Somebody from either reflector my know the answer to this: Using a brand new Palstar AT-AUTO antenna tuner Firmware rev. 2.11A Pretty Betty SVN 3670 thru 3692 Fire wire Driver: 3.5.0.7171 Firmware: SDK: 3.5.2.8028 app: 2.0.2.2 PAL version 3.5.0.7171 as shown by Info in fire wire driver console Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit, 4 GIG RAM, AMD Phenon II x4 955 processor DDUtil v1.8.5 vspMgr 1.0.1.017 Setup: Start vspMgr and make comport pairs. Start Flex radio and choose comport for Cat control, set baud rate, check the box to activate. Start DDUtil and chose comport on port page "Serial Port" to talk to Flex radio. Complimentary to port chosen on Flex Cat page. Choose "Pass Listen" comport set to port 5 which is a hardware comport on my computer via an addon card with 4 port dongle. Turn on Palstar Tuner which is set up for RS232 communication with radio via serial cable. Now tuning radio controls tuner, band switching, frequency tuning, etc. Now choose "RCP1" CAT port for Fldigi Set up Fldigi with complimentary cat port. Set baud rate, etc. Now choosing frequency in Fldigi changes radio frequency and tuner band and frequency. All is well and good until an indeterminate amount of time passes and the whole computer crashes!! No blue screen, just lock up. From a few minutes to an hour. No rhythm to it. Radio and Fldigi play nice together for hours with now problems. Just when I add the Tuner things go haywire. By the way, When trying to use DDUtil Repeater on the "Other" tab and checking Pal for the Palstar tuner, does not work. I would have to use Data type All. Even using this setting, the computer crashes. Do I have a driver mismatch? Problem with tuner? How can I isolate this? Anyone see something like this before. Using the standalone repeater, splitter, and comport generation programs, I get the same results, so I do not think DDUtil is the culprit. Thanks in advance. Victor K4XTT ___ Flexedge mailing list flexe...@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist who are using alpha and beta versions of the software. No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.819 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2861 - Release Date: 05/08/10 02:26:00 ___ 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/
Re: [Flexradio] [FlexEdge] Computer complete lockup
Victor, I don't think DDUtil is the cause of your crashing problem. I would suspect a OS or video or other driver issue. The Passive Listener port is the preferred way to connect the AT-Auto to DDUtil unless there is a MAJOR reason you need to send commands to the tuner, which is what the repeater port is for. If you just have to talk to the tuner there is a different setup you have to use for the tuner. See section 10 in the Palstar manual for how to do this. Good luck. 73, Steve K5FR -Original Message- From: flexedge-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexedge-boun...@flex-radio.biz] On Behalf Of k4xtt Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 12:55 PM To: flexe...@flex-radio.biz; flex reflector Subject: [FlexEdge] Computer complete lockup Somebody from either reflector my know the answer to this: Using a brand new Palstar AT-AUTO antenna tuner Firmware rev. 2.11A Pretty Betty SVN 3670 thru 3692 Fire wire Driver: 3.5.0.7171 Firmware: SDK: 3.5.2.8028 app: 2.0.2.2 PAL version 3.5.0.7171 as shown by Info in fire wire driver console Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit, 4 GIG RAM, AMD Phenon II x4 955 processor DDUtil v1.8.5 vspMgr 1.0.1.017 Setup: Start vspMgr and make comport pairs. Start Flex radio and choose comport for Cat control, set baud rate, check the box to activate. Start DDUtil and chose comport on port page "Serial Port" to talk to Flex radio. Complimentary to port chosen on Flex Cat page. Choose "Pass Listen" comport set to port 5 which is a hardware comport on my computer via an addon card with 4 port dongle. Turn on Palstar Tuner which is set up for RS232 communication with radio via serial cable. Now tuning radio controls tuner, band switching, frequency tuning, etc. Now choose "RCP1" CAT port for Fldigi Set up Fldigi with complimentary cat port. Set baud rate, etc. Now choosing frequency in Fldigi changes radio frequency and tuner band and frequency. All is well and good until an indeterminate amount of time passes and the whole computer crashes!! No blue screen, just lock up. From a few minutes to an hour. No rhythm to it. Radio and Fldigi play nice together for hours with now problems. Just when I add the Tuner things go haywire. By the way, When trying to use DDUtil Repeater on the "Other" tab and checking Pal for the Palstar tuner, does not work. I would have to use Data type All. Even using this setting, the computer crashes. Do I have a driver mismatch? Problem with tuner? How can I isolate this? Anyone see something like this before. Using the standalone repeater, splitter, and comport generation programs, I get the same results, so I do not think DDUtil is the culprit. Thanks in advance. Victor K4XTT ___ Flexedge mailing list flexe...@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist who are using alpha and beta versions of the software. ___ 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/
Re: [Flexradio] [FlexEdge] Computer complete lockup
Read carefully, I say that comport 5 is a hardware comport via an addon card which I had to purchase. Recognized by windows as a hardware port #'s 3,4,5,6. No usb, no converter, no nothing, dedicated hardware port. Therefore it is a real serial port. I have run into this before. Vic On 5/8/2010 2:03 PM, FireBrick wrote: I'm pretty sure if you read the documentation for the PalStar, you may see that you can the say you can't use a virtual or USB>serial port. It must be a real serial port. I purchased a SIIG dual serial, single parallel port from eBay for little. I changed one of the serials to port 13 which is in my Passive Listening entry. My Palstar follows perfectly. On 5/8/2010 12:54:39 PM, k4xtt (k4...@comcast.net) wrote: Somebody from either reflector my know the answer to this: Using a brand new Palstar AT-AUTO antenna tuner Firmware rev. 2.11A Pretty Betty SVN 3670 thru 3692 Fire wire Driver: 3.5.0.7171 Firmware: SDK: 3.5.2.8028 app: 2.0.2.2 PAL version 3.5.0.7171 as shown by Info in fire wire driver console Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit, 4 GIG RAM, AMD Phenon II x4 955 processor DDUtil v1.8.5 vspMgr 1.0.1.017 Setup: Start vspMgr and make comport pairs. Start Flex radio and choose comport for Cat control, set baud rate, check the box to activate. Start DDUtil and chose comport on port page "Serial Port" to talk to Flex radio. Complimentary to port chosen on Flex Cat page. Choose "Pass Listen" comport set to port 5 which is a hardware comport on my computer via an addon card with 4 port dongle. Turn on Palstar Tuner which is set up for RS232 communication with radio via serial cable. Now tuning radio controls tuner, band switching, frequency tuning, etc. Now choose "RCP1" CAT port for Fldigi Set up Fldigi with complimentary cat port. Set baud rate, etc. Now choosing frequency in Fldigi changes radio frequency and tuner band and frequency. Al No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.819 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2861 - Release Date: 05/08/10 02:26:00 ___ 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/
Re: [Flexradio] [FlexEdge] Computer complete lockup
Update the firewire driver to 3.5.2.8028 Available in download section of Flex Radio website. Dave wo2x -- From: "k4xtt" Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 1:54 PM To: ; "flex reflector" Subject: [FlexEdge] Computer complete lockup Somebody from either reflector my know the answer to this: Using a brand new Palstar AT-AUTO antenna tuner Firmware rev. 2.11A Pretty Betty SVN 3670 thru 3692 Fire wire Driver: 3.5.0.7171 Firmware: SDK: 3.5.2.8028 app: 2.0.2.2 PAL version 3.5.0.7171 as shown by Info in fire wire driver console Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit, 4 GIG RAM, AMD Phenon II x4 955 processor DDUtil v1.8.5 vspMgr 1.0.1.017 ___ 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/
