Hi Mike Congrats!
VMFusion has a similar USB device function, its under the Virtual Machine menu item. I bet its the cause of the missing 1500! Testing has shown that Parallels is better at running Windows than Fusion, although I expect VMWare to catch up with their next release. I am beta testing the new Parallels software, running Win7 X64 with 6GB of memory assigned to it for development and it works really well. 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 Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Mike Schwendeman <[email protected]> wrote: > This is an update on my quest to allow PowerSDR to operate my Flex-1500 in > EMULATION mode on my Mac Mini. > > At Neal's suggestion, I downloaded and ran an application that would show > me the status of the USB bus; This application is called USBView. > > I downloaded and ran this application in my VMWare Fusion installation of > Windows XP. I merely observed the window for USBView, not knowing what the > possibilities might be. I installed PowerSDR, using the installation suite. > After the reboot of XP on my Mac Mini's VMWare Fusion, I waited the > suggested period of time, then turned the Flex-1500 ON. Lo and behold! I > saw the pop-up from the task bar telling me of the driver being installed. > (Before, I would only see a "USB device not recognized..." message.) > > I opened PowerSDR 2.0.5, and it loaded and ran just fine! > > Armed with this success, I decided to see if the magic of this USBView > application would allow me to run the Flex-1500 in Windows 7. So, I > downloaded and ran USBView, and then installed the software suite for > PowerSDR 2.0.5, and I was again able to run the Flex-1500 just fine! > > But... When I quit Windows 7 and opened Windows XP, I got the same "USB > device not recognized..." message. I tried Windows 7 again, same thing. > The magic had disappeared. > > So, I decided to see if the other popular emulation program (Parallels) > would fare any better; -I installed Parallels 5.0.922, and installed XP, > then the PowerSDR suite; All installed just fine, and the Flex-1500 was > properly recognized and ran just fine. (I did NOT run the USBView > application, when I was running the Parallels application to operate XP.) > > Still running Parallels, I loaded Windows 7. After running the Flex > software suite for PowerSDR 2.0.5 again, no go. (I was greeted with the > "USB device not recognized..." message.) > > I tried uninstalling and re-installing the Flex software, but still no go. > I ran XP in Parallels, and all was fine; I could run the Flex-1500 just > fine. > > I finally discovered that Parallels has a menu named DEVICES; Under the > DEVICES menu, I saw a USB category. There, I saw a few items, one of which > was the FLEX-1500. This item was unchecked, so I selected it. (It was now > shown with a check mark.) I turned the Flex-1500 ON, and saw the needed > driver being loaded and installed!!! > > A few points: > 1. I did not have to select the USB/Flex-radio in XP, yet the driver and > the radio worked just fine. > > 2. I DID have to select the USB/Flex-radio in Windows 7, which then allowed > Windows 7 to see the Flex Radio (?) and allow the driver to load. > > 3. When I was running VMWare Fusion, I may have been lucky ONCE. (I was > able to run the Flex-1500 for one session in both XP and 7.) > > 4. There may well (and I assume there IS) a (USB select?) setting in VMWare > Fusion that will select/allow the Flex hardware to be seen by the operating > system, which would then possibly allow the driver to load as needed. > -After all, I was able to run the Flex-1500 in both XP and 7! (But only ONE > time in each OS!) > > 5. When I ran the Flex-1500 in VMWare Fusion and Windows XP, the radio ran > great. When I ran the radio (that one time) in Windows 7, the audio was not > good, both receive and transmit. (The audio was somewhat choppy.) > > 6. When I run the Flex-1500 in the Parallels emulation, the Flex-1500 seems > to run just fine in either XP or 7. > > If anyone else has some suggestions, please do add them! I am reporting my > findings to date. So far, Parallels seems to be smooth; I can start and > stop, switch OS's at will, and the Flex-1500 is still running as desired. > > 73! -Mike- KØJTA > _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] 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 beta versions of the software.
