I also should of mentioned I'm using an Edgeport 4 USB to serial device to control the FT-817's. It appears to use their own driver, edgeser64.sys...
73 Jeff kb2m
-----Original Message----- From: amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Alan Sent: Wednesday, April 3, 2013 8:28 AM To: 'John Price' Cc: 'amsat-bb@amsat.org' Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Windows 8
John,
I have, lightly, tested SATPC32 on my Surface Pro with WIN8 64 bit. It installs and runs without difficulty. I have a different rotator controller, so can't comment directly. I tried a variety of USB-Serial dongles, and all the ones which use the FTDI chip loaded a new driver and worked perfectly.
As you may know, the Prolific chipset is the choice of pirates, and many knockoffs have counterfeit chips. The latest Prolific drivers detect these, and refuse to run. At least that is the explanation I have seen. I have a USB GPS like that, but was able to find an older Vista/WIN7 driver which runs perfectly on WIN8 64 bit.
73s,
Alan WA4SCA
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 4:28 PM, John Price n4qwf1@gmail.com wrote:
I am about to attempt to migrate my satellite station to Windows 8 operating system on my new HP Pavilion. Has anyone experience with this. Will Satpc32 run under windows 8 64 bit? How about the USB driver for the LVB tracker? I doubt the old one I used for XP will work. Nothing else I used that required a driver worked even with the Windows 7 drivers I used on the laptop. Any help or suggestions would be greatly
appreciated.
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