Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem with FW and FPGA images

[Josh Blum]

On 04/12/2012 11:12 PM, George Sklivanitis wrote:
> Hi Josh,
> 
> The sequence of the LEDs is D and F coming green just in the same way as
> the video apart from the B led where I cannot see why to come green?
> 
> The ethernet is properly configured.
> 
> The green led on the ethernet also goes on. There is no way that the
> ethernet jack is faulty or sth like that as the same usrp2 with the same
> settings is just working fine on another laptop with UHD_003.004.000 - 325-
> g7e296167 revision.
> 
> I don't really know what's the problem, may be I will try solving it by
> monitoring the serial output.
> 
> The thing that really attracted my attention is that sometimes there is a
> connection and after just typing uhd_find_devices the connection is lost.
> 

I think you have isolated the problem. Sounds like the laptop has a
buggy ethernet port/ethernet driver. When the connection is lost:

Do you have to run ifconfig ethx .... again?

Does ifconfig ethx report errors?

Does dmesg report errors?

-Josh