Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Rx dBoard has empty serial

[sirjanselot]

I replaced my WBX boards with rev 3 and it looks like its working now. 
However, I would still like to be able to run the calibration routines on
the rev 2 versions.  Are you guys going to support this?

- Jan


sirjanselot wrote:
> 
> My UHD version is UHD_003.004.000-325-g7e296167
> 
> I opened up my USRP N210s and it seems like on each board it says two
> different rev numbers.  
> 
> On all boards it shows WBX Board Rev. 2 on the main board while on the
> connector board (the board with the RX and TX connectors on it) it says
> WBX-FE-Simple Board Rev 4.0.
> 
> I think my boards are about a year old.
> 
> I installed gnuradio and uhd this saturday.
> 
> - Jan
> 
> 
> Marcus D. Leech wrote:
>> 
>>   
>> 
>> What version of UHD are you running? And what approximate age are
>> the WBX? 
>> 
>> The Rev 3 WBX is somewhat different than Rev 2, so you need
>> to make sure that you have the latest host-side UHD and matching
>> firmware to properly support Rev 3 WBX. 
>> 
>> There was a (transient) bug in
>> the calibration routines that was found last week, but it's fixed in the
>> most recent UHD host-side. 
>> 
>> I used the cal routines on my USRP2+WBX
>> just this past weekeend and they worked just fine. So perhaps you have
>> the transiently-broken version of UHD. 
>> 
>> Perhaps Josh can comment--I
>> don't have the GIT tags of the broken instance at my fingertips right
>> now. 
>> 
>> On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:36:43 -0700 (PDT), sirjanselot wrote: 
>> 
>>>
>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I reran the command for each individual USRP radio
>> connected.
>>> 
>>> Two of my USRP N210s have this output:
>>> 
>>> Error: RX
>> dboard has empty serial!
>>> 
>>> One of my USRP N210 has this output:
>>>
>> Error: timed out waiting for TX and/or RX LO to lock
>>> 
>>> and the
>> USRP1:
>>> 
>>> Error: self-calibration is not supported for this
>> hardware.
>>> 
>>> I can understand if the self-calibration is not supported
>> for the USRP1.
>>> 
>>> However, for the USRP N210s I would like these
>> fixed. I ran uhd_usrp_probe
>>> and it seems like by dboard has a serial.
>> It says TX Dboard: A ID:
>>> WBX(0x0052).
>>> 
>>> Is there a bug in the
>> calibration routines?
>>> 
>>> Marcus D. Leech wrote:
>>>> When you have more
>> than one USRP device connected to your system, you really should be
>> explicit about which device you want to address, using the "--args"
>> option. For your N210 it would be "--args addr=192.168.X.Y" and for your
>> USRP1 it would be "type=usrp1" Otherwise, it just grabs the first USRP
>> device it finds. On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 07:47:03 -0700 (PDT), sirjanselot
>> wrote: 
>>>> 
>>>>> Hello, I was
>>>> running the calibration routines for 3
>> USRP N210s and one 1 USRP 
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> radio. I had them all connected
>> at once to my computer and all of a sudden it
>>>> 
>>>>> ow do I fix
>> this?
>>>> -left:#1010ff 2px solid; margin-left:5px; width:100%"> Does the
>> calibration routines run for all of them @ once, when I call the - Jan
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