Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP, GNURADIO, WINDOWS, APPLICATION HELP

[Josh Blum]

>     thank you very much for your answer. I don't really like Linux because it 
> has
> many problems. As I'm writing you this message I'm installing Ubuntu on a
> VirtualPC, everything was OK, but when files were copied to the Virtual drive it
> gave me a BIG error, some I/O error while copying, so this is what I'm talking
> about, many problems and is very slow compared to Windows.

Flamewar much?

Of course its slower, its a virtual machine; and of course it crashed, 
you were running it on windows! BTW I have a virtual windows running on 
ubuntu to test UHD compilation. Its slow compared to its host system, 
but not many problems in the crashing department. Virtualbox FYI

Lb4lb, I have found windows to be frustrating as a development 
environment, and more sluggish with the IO. However, both platforms 
crash in their own ways and lack support in their own ways.

If you just want to get some samples in and out of a USRP2 without using 
gnuradio as a DSP library then you can use the UHD which builds native 
on windows: http://ettus-apps.sourcerepo.com/redmine/ettus/projects/uhd/wiki

It has USRP1 support, but I have not tested libusb1.0 under windows. So, 
that being uncharted territory at the moment...

-Josh