Indeed this whole thing seems like a non issue. Install XP, install the
latest windows drivers for the Delta 44, install Linrad-02 and it will
work.
In terms of stability and ease of installation XP is MUCH better than Win
98
or Win_ME which in my opinion was absolutely awful. Old Amateur radio
software written for Win 98 can be persuaded to run on XP with a little
work, it would not be fair to criticise XP for this.
The Delta 44 windows drivers are mature and very stable, I have used them
for quite a long time for a pro audio application.
73
Conrad G0RUZ
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From: Linrad mailinglist
[mailto:linrad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert McGwier
Sent: 15 November 2005 00:15
To: Linrad mailinglist
Subject: [linrad] Re: Linrad-02.pre
Leif:
What is true is that windows users have come to expect
installation programs, using the installer to check for the
dependencies, especially if they user Windows XP. There is
no way in the world I would ever write a program to support
Windows 98 or Windows ME. It is simply not worth the hassle.
On XP, if the dependencies are not there, the installer
program informs the user that they need to find a driver, etc.
and asks permission to go to Microsoft to hunt for it. The
Delta 44 is one of those cards that refuses to participate in
the Microsoft blackmail called DRM certification so its
drivers are not available from Microsoft (they are "Microsoft
unsigned" and bring up a dialog box when you install them
under XP). If you insist on supporting a ten year old
operating system that is no longer supported by Microsoft or
anyone else for that matter, you can indeed expect it to be
hard to find drivers.
Bob
N4HY
leif@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>Hi Gunter,
>
>
>
>>I am running the lastest 4.x.y version.
>>Quoting myself:
>>"If I understand you right, later Windows versions would
support the
>>2496 directly?"
>>means negated
>>"my current windows version (W98) does not support the 2496
directly"
>>
>>
>Hmmm, people usually claim that Linux is much harder to
install than Windows.
>This is not true at all, Windows is much harder because it is much
>harder to find the proper drive routines. I was unaware of
this myself
>until very recently when I installed Win98 on several old computers
>with unknown soundcards. Unlike Linux which supplies drive
routines for
>nearly everything included in the operating system, Windows requires
>that you have CDs from the hardware manufacturers. One computer was
>completely impossible, it has a Creative Live (SB0220) for
which there
>is no driver available on the Internet site of the manufacturer.
>Luckily I had demounted the hard disk I got with the machine and by
>searching it I found some files belonging to the soundcard.
It is the same with videocards. Windows does not "auto-install"
>many hardwares properly. One has to supply drive routines from CDs,
>Internet or elsewhere - but unlike Linux Windows does not
tell you what
>card to find drivers for.... (Or I am not clever to enough
to find out
>how to get the information)
>
>Look at the Windows hardware install program. Presumably it
will tell
>you that the soundcard is not properly installed.
>
>73
>
>Leif / SM5BSZ
>
>
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