Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] X300 PCIe issues

2014-04-28 Thread Robert McGwier
; -Ben > > > > *From:* discuss-gnuradio-bounces+blapointe=ll.mit@gnu.org [mailto: > discuss-gnuradio-bounces+blapointe=ll.mit@gnu.org] *On Behalf Of *Robert > McGwier > *Sent:* Monday, April 28, 2014 7:26 AM > *To:* Marcus D. Leech > *Cc:* Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.o

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] X300 PCIe issues

2014-04-28 Thread Ben Hilburn
Hi all - Just to clarify, it isn't the *version of OS* that matters, but rather the *version of the kernel provided by the OS*, that matters. At the top of our instructions for installing the USRP RIO kernel module, it lists the maximum kernel version we currently support: "*NOTE: The latest sup

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] X300 PCIe issues

2014-04-28 Thread Lapointe, Benjamin - 1008 - MITLL
[mailto:discuss-gnuradio-bounces+blapointe=ll.mit@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Robert McGwier Sent: Monday, April 28, 2014 7:26 AM To: Marcus D. Leech Cc: Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] X300 PCIe issues It needed to be said, but my only goal is to ACCEPT AND LOVE 10GigE

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] X300 PCIe issues

2014-04-28 Thread Robert McGwier
It needed to be said, but my only goal is to ACCEPT AND LOVE 10GigE until and unless you demand the low latency afforded by the PCIe interface. The things I am working on demand that we meet the tight timing requirements of open specification waveforms. PCIe was required. The x3x0 series are m

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] X300 PCIe issues

2014-04-27 Thread Sylvain Munaut
Hi, > So, would we accept an applications-layer API that changed roughly every two > months? I would argue, no, we wouldn't. But > people developing in kernel land seem to accept it as some kind of > necessary gospel. For the kernel, the "application layer API" is the user space interface an

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] X300 PCIe issues

2014-04-27 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 04/27/2014 05:32 PM, Sylvain Munaut wrote: While the "top side" API is very stable so that applications hardly *ever* experience API changes that require on-going tedious maintenance, the same cannot be said of code that runs in the kernel. Quite the contrary. Linus and friends *routine

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] X300 PCIe issues

2014-04-27 Thread Sylvain Munaut
> While the "top side" API is > very stable so that applications hardly *ever* experience API changes > that require on-going tedious maintenance, the same cannot be said of code > that runs in the kernel. Quite the contrary. Linus and friends > *routinely and regularly* change critical APIs w

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] X300 PCIe issues

2014-04-27 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 04/27/2014 02:45 PM, Robert McGwier wrote: Backing off to Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS was successful in getting the PCIe Express interface to build, dkms the kernel module, start and uhd_find_device sees the USRP x300. Now for the fun part using it. Finally: To all those entertaining PCIe inte

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] X300 PCIe issues

2014-04-27 Thread Robert McGwier
Backing off to Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS was successful in getting the PCIe Express interface to build, dkms the kernel module, start and uhd_find_device sees the USRP x300. Now for the fun part using it. Finally: To all those entertaining PCIe interfacing, do not install a later version of kernel

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] X300 PCIe issues

2014-04-26 Thread Robert McGwier
Tim and I are going to swap back to 12.04.4 LTS. I suggest that some note to the installation for x3x0 say which versions of Ubuntu, kernels, etc. are supported currently. Thanks for your time. Bob On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Robert McGwier wrote: > Okay, I thought that was it. I will

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] X300 PCIe issues

2014-04-26 Thread Robert McGwier
Okay, I thought that was it. I will back off to 13.XX LTS for now. Bob On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 6:28 PM, Matt Ettus wrote: > You are using ubuntu 14.4 which has a new kernel. It will take us a > little while to get our kernel module working with it. In the mean time, > going to an older k

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] X300 PCIe issues

2014-04-25 Thread Matt Ettus
You are using ubuntu 14.4 which has a new kernel. It will take us a little while to get our kernel module working with it. In the mean time, going to an older kernel or distribution will fix it. This does not affect ethernet connections. Matt On Apr 25, 2014 11:38 PM, "Robert McGwier" wrote

[Discuss-gnuradio] X300 PCIe issues

2014-04-25 Thread Robert McGwier
I have my new x300's. The NI ExpressCard-8360B is recognized by my Intel 5, Lenovo, 64 bit machine running U 14.04 LTS. I naively assumed that given the way things had gone before, that this would be a low impact out of the box experience. uhd_find_devices finds nothing. So I go and dig and fin