[Discuss-gnuradio] Recent Changes to UHD causing issue for USRP1?

[john]

Dear All,
        I am running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on two systems using Marcus'
script to load/install UHD nad the latest GNURadio. On the first system
on Sat 16th of April, I ran his script and it worked well in the
GR_Companion works etc. and using UHD_find_devices as a diagnostic tool,
I get the following:

address@hidden:~$ uhd_find_devices
linux; GNU C++ version 4.4.3; Boost_104000;UHD_003.000.001-98a05d8

Loading firmware image: /usr/local/share/uhd/images/usrp1_fw.ihx... done
--------------------------------------------------
-- UHD Device 0
--------------------------------------------------
Device Address:
    type: usrp1
    name: 
    serial: 4c745353


address@hidden:~$ uhd_usrp_probe
linux; GNU C++ version 4.4.3; Boost_104000; UHD_003.000.001-98a05d8

Loading FPGA image: /usr/local/share/uhd/images/usrp1_fpga.rbf... done
  _____________________________________________________
 /
|       Device: usrp1 device
|     _____________________________________________________
|    /
|   |       Mboard: usrp1 mboard - 4c745353
|   |   serial: 4c745353
|   |     _____________________________________________________
|   |    /
|   |   |       RX DSP: usrp1 ddc0 + hb
|   |   |   Codec Rate: 64.000000 Msps
|   |     _____________________________________________________
|   |    /
|   |   |       RX DSP: usrp1 ddc1 + hb
|   |   |   Codec Rate: 64.000000 Msps
|   |     _____________________________________________________
|   |    /
|   |   |       TX DSP: usrp1 duc0 
|   |   |   Codec Rate: 128.000000 Msps
|   |     _____________________________________________________
|   |    /
|   |   |       TX DSP: usrp1 duc1 
|   |   |   Codec Rate: 128.000000 Msps
|   |     _____________________________________________________
|   |    /
|   |   |       RX Dboard: usrp1 dboard (rx unit) - A
|   |   |     _____________________________________________________
|   |   |    /
|   |   |   |       RX Subdev: DBSRX2 (0x0012)
|   |   |   |   Antennas: J3
|   |   |   |   Freq range: 800.000 to 2400.000 Mhz
|   |   |   |   Gain range GC1: 0.0 to 73.0 step 0.1 dB
|   |   |   |   Gain range BBG: 0.0 to 15.0 step 1.0 dB
|   |   |   |   Connection Type: c
|   |   |   |   Uses LO offset: No
|   |   |     _____________________________________________________
|   |   |    /
|   |   |   |       RX Codec: usrp1 adc - ad9862 - slot A
|   |   |   |   Gain range PGA: 0.0 to 20.0 step 1.0 dB
|   |     _____________________________________________________
|   |    /
|   |   |       RX Dboard: usrp1 dboard (rx unit) - B
|   |   |     _____________________________________________________
|   |   |    /
|   |   |   |       RX Subdev: Unknown - Unknown (0xffff)
|   |   |   |   Antennas: 
|   |   |   |   Freq range: 0.000 to 0.000 Mhz
|   |   |   |   Gain Elements: None
|   |   |   |   Connection Type: C
|   |   |   |   Uses LO offset: No
|   |   |     _____________________________________________________
|   |   |    /
|   |   |   |       RX Codec: usrp1 adc - ad9862 - slot B
|   |   |   |   Gain range PGA: 0.0 to 20.0 step 1.0 dB
|   |     _____________________________________________________
|   |    /
|   |   |       TX Dboard: usrp1 dboard (tx unit) - A
|   |   |     _____________________________________________________
|   |   |    /
|   |   |   |       TX Subdev: Unknown - Unknown (0xffff)
|   |   |   |   Antennas: 
|   |   |   |   Freq range: 0.000 to 0.000 Mhz
|   |   |   |   Gain Elements: None
|   |   |   |   Connection Type: C
|   |   |   |   Uses LO offset: No
|   |   |     _____________________________________________________
|   |   |    /
|   |   |   |       TX Codec: usrp1 dac - ad9862 - slot A
|   |   |   |   Gain range PGA: -20.0 to 0.0 step 0.1 dB
|   |     _____________________________________________________
|   |    /
|   |   |       TX Dboard: usrp1 dboard (tx unit) - B
|   |   |     _____________________________________________________
|   |   |    /
|   |   |   |       TX Subdev: LF TX (0x000e) - AB
|   |   |   |   Antennas: 
|   |   |   |   Freq range: -32.000 to 32.000 Mhz
|   |   |   |   Gain Elements: None
|   |   |   |   Connection Type: C
|   |   |   |   Uses LO offset: No
|   |   |     _____________________________________________________
|   |   |    /
|   |   |   |       TX Subdev: LF TX (0x000e) - BA
|   |   |   |   Antennas: 
|   |   |   |   Freq range: -32.000 to 32.000 Mhz
|   |   |   |   Gain Elements: None
|   |   |   |   Connection Type: c
|   |   |   |   Uses LO offset: No
|   |   |     _____________________________________________________
|   |   |    /
|   |   |   |       TX Subdev: LF TX (0x000e) - A
|   |   |   |   Antennas: 
|   |   |   |   Freq range: -32.000 to 32.000 Mhz
|   |   |   |   Gain Elements: None
|   |   |   |   Connection Type: R
|   |   |   |   Uses LO offset: No
|   |   |     _____________________________________________________
|   |   |    /
|   |   |   |       TX Subdev: LF TX (0x000e) - B
|   |   |   |   Antennas: 
|   |   |   |   Freq range: -32.000 to 32.000 Mhz
|   |   |   |   Gain Elements: None
|   |   |   |   Connection Type: r
|   |   |   |   Uses LO offset: No
|   |   |     _____________________________________________________
|   |   |    /
|   |   |   |       TX Codec: usrp1 dac - ad9862 - slot B
|   |   |   |   Gain range PGA: -20.0 to 0.0 step 0.1 dB

address@hidden:~$ 

On Friday 22nd of April, on another 10.04 Ubuntu system I (re)ran
Marcus' script and it seemed to go fine however GR-Companion could not
find devices and here is the output of UHD_find_devices:

address@hidden:~$ uhd_find_devices
linux; GNU C++ version 4.4.3; Boost_104000; UHD_003.000.001-8212f22

No UHD Devices Found
address@hidden:~$ 

I should not that I had to work around an issue when Marcus' script was
running because this line:

wget -nd -r -np
http://www.ettus.com/downloads/uhd_images/UHD-images-most-recent/
>/dev/null 2>&1

does not work. I just navigated to the image files in binaries for
release 003.000.001 - 2011/04/01

 i.e UHD-images-003.000.001.tar.gz so I think that is not necessarily
the issue.

Since find_devices is such a primitive command, I suspect it might be a
f/w incompatability but don't know how to progress.

       Any assistance would be greatly appreciated,

             Kind Regards,

                      John