Is WUBI (Lucid) a viable environment for GNU-Radio (3.2.2)?

I recently purchased a USRP and have a fresh install of WUBI (HP
Pavillion DV5 , Windows Home Vista) and used
gnuradio.org/redmine/wiki/gnuradio/UbuntuInstall to install things.

I passed ‘make check’ correctly

I have my username in the group usrp

john@ubuntu:~/gnuradio$ ls -lR /dev/bus/usb | grep usrp
crw-rw---- 1 root usrp 189, 132 2010-09-21 11:14 005

when I execute ./usrp_benchmark_usb.py I get:

Testing 2MB/sec… gr_vmcircbuf_createfilemapping: createfilemapping is
not available
/home/john/.gnuradio/prefs/gr_vmcircbuf_default_factory: Permission
denied
uUuOuUuOuUuOuUuOuUuOuUuOuUuOuUuOuUuOuUuOuUuOuOuUuOuUuOuUuOuUuOuUuOuUuOuU^Z

and it hangs so I kill it

[1]+ Stopped ./usrp_benchmark_usb.py

I cannot repeat this operation as I get

Testing 2MB/sec… usrp_open_interface:usb_set_alt_interface: failed
could not set alt intf 0/0: Connection timed out
open_nth_cmd_interface: open_cmd_interface failed
usrp: failed to load firmware /usr/share/usrp/rev4/std.ihx.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “./usrp_benchmark_usb.py”, line 106, in
main ()

      snip.........

unless I move the USRP to a new USB port in which case I get the first
symptom again

I have seen similar posts elsewhere re: issues with USB ports, Python
and VirtualBox

so my question is has anyone been able to run GNURADIO on WUBI?

Kind Regards,

    Slainte,

              John

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 08:24:53PM +1200, John Shields wrote:

I cannot repeat this operation as I get

Testing 2MB/sec… usrp_open_interface:usb_set_alt_interface: failed
could not set alt intf 0/0: Connection timed out
open_nth_cmd_interface: open_cmd_interface failed
usrp: failed to load firmware /usr/share/usrp/rev4/std.ihx.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “./usrp_benchmark_usb.py”, line 106, in
main ()

      snip.........

Just to rule out a flakey cable, can you try using a different USB 2
cable?

Eric