Windows driver for RTL283 device

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Robert Durkacz robert.durkacz at gmail.com
Thu Jan 17 06:38:16 UTC 2013


It looks like this answers my question. The libusb documentation at
http://www.libusb.org/wiki/windows_backend also points to Zadig as the
way to control what driver is used.
Thanks.

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Moses <moses.mason at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm using Zadig (http://sourceforge.net/projects/libwdi/files/zadig/)
> to replace the driver comes with the device with the WinUSB driver,
> which is very easy to use and works fine for me. At the end of my
> replacing, it maybe pop a error message box indicates the replacing is
> failed, but in fact, after checking the hardware manager, the driver
> is installed correctly and works very well.
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Robert Durkacz
> <robert.durkacz at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am using cygwin with Windows XP but I do not have a good
>> understanding of the Windows OS. I could do with some advice about how
>> the usb driver for the RTL2832U device is meant to be located by the
>> rtl_sdr.c program using the libusb library.
>>
>> For me this program fails with a libusb_open() error of -12. Using the
>> debugger I can see this is due to no driver being found for the
>> RTL2832U device.
>>
>> When the function get_api_type() in windows_usb.c is called it
>> consults the registry for a driver name for the device. In my case it
>> finds RTL2832UUSB and RTL2832UBDA but I suppose this just depends on
>> what is sitting in the registry. Subsequently the program checks to
>> see if the driver name is WINUSB or USBCCGP. Because it is not the
>> program cannot work.
>>
>> Am I meant to ensure either WINUSB or USBGCCP drivers are installed on
>> my computer and must the registry entry for the RTL2832U device point
>> to one of these? If so, is there a recommended procedure to do that?
>>
>> Thanks for any advice
>> Robert Durkacz
>>
>
>
>
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