[Discuss-gnuradio] find_usrps only succeed when an sniffer is ON

2010-09-07 Thread Jorge Miguel
I installed GNU Radio on a ThinkPad Lenovo T4410 under Ubuntu 10.04. After connecting the USRP2 with the original Ettus code on the SD card D and F LEDs are ok and when executed: ~$ sudo find_usrps No USRP2 found. I run wireshark or tcpdump to see what happens in my network and I got: ~$ sudo fi

Re: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] find_usrps only succeed when an sniffer is ON

2010-09-07 Thread Jorge Miguel
ernet wire. Furthermore there were no errors during the installation of the software (via package manager).I run out of ideasany suggestion? Jorge. On 09/07/2010 04:43 AM, Jorge Miguel wrote: > I installed GNU Radio on a ThinkPad Lenovo T4410 under Ubuntu 10.04. > After connecting th

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] find_usrps only succeed when an sniffer is ON

2010-09-08 Thread Jorge Miguel
raw ethernet interface. >-- >Marcus Leech >Principal Investigator >Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium >http://www.sbrac.org >>On 09/07/2010 03:12 PM, Jorge Miguel wrote: >> Thanks for your quick answer. A problem with a firewall was an idea >> that also came to my mind

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] find_usrps only succeed when an sniffer is ON

2010-09-09 Thread Jorge Miguel
usrps >> 00:50:c2:85:35:a2 hw_rev = 0x0400 >> >> If I stop the sniffer, I get again: >> >> ~$ sudo find_usrps >> No USRP2 found. >> >> My problem is that 'find_usrps' only works when a sniffer is running. >> How can it be explained? >

[Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 & Basic receiver. Unexpected behavior

2010-09-15 Thread Jorge Miguel
Hello, After running my USRP2 with the GRC software I got some results that I didn't expect. My configuration was is simple as an USRP2 source followed by a FFT sink to see the spectrum (around MHz with a 75cm antenna), but: 1) I can only see the sprectrum up to 100MHz. I thought that the LTC2284

[Discuss-gnuradio] gr_remez error when running "usrp2_wfm_rcv.py" example

2010-09-16 Thread Jorge Miguel
After running the USRP2 GNU Radio example "usrp2_wfm_rcv.py" I got an error which I cannot find the solution in internet, any ideas? Many thanks in advance. Jorge. u...@user:/usr/share/gnuradio/examples/usrp2$ ./usrp2_wfm_rcv.py Using RX d'board 0x0001 gr_remez: band edges must be nondecreasing Tr

[Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 FM TX and FM RX working together

2010-09-21 Thread Jorge Miguel
Hello community! I initiated myself in GNU radio two weeks ago and I am learning as fast as I can. To begin with, I decided to play with GRC and my URSP2. I successfully built a FM modulator that works fine. I successfully built a FM demodulator that works fine. But there are still several things

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 FM TX and FM RX working together

2010-09-21 Thread Jorge Miguel
This is my grc generated file. It is probably that now the sample rates are not adjusted because I tried everything to make my receiver work. I would appreciate any help. I remind you that modulator and demodulator work when they are alone but they don't when running together. Many thanks, Jorge.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 FM TX and FM RX working together

2010-09-22 Thread Jorge Miguel
I forgot to mention, but I get a lot of messages like: .SSS SSaUSSS. I did the calculations and with the 104 interpolation USRP sink and 208 decimatio

[Discuss-gnuradio] How to balance workload among cores? Laptop cannot keep up with the USRP2 data flow.

2010-09-27 Thread Jorge Miguel
Hi all! I am Tx/Rx a FM signal at the same time, but I can see a lot of S messages that mean my CPU cannot keep up with all frames generated by the USRP2 and drop most of them. However I have a quite new laptop with a CPU:Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 520 @ 2.40GHz on Ubuntu 10.4 I guess that

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How to balance workload among cores? Laptop cannot keep up with the USRP2 data flow

2010-09-27 Thread Jorge Miguel
>* *CPU scheduling is generally the responsibility of the operating system >* *kernel, *NOT* Gnu Radio. What Gnu Radio does is schedule > blocks to threads, and the execution of those threads, and CPU > assignment is up to the kernel. In general, the kernel does a good > job of CPU scheduling. >

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How to balance workload among cores? Laptop cannot keep up with the USRP2 data flow.

2010-09-30 Thread Jorge Miguel
't work neither. Could be any reason why by decreasing software computation (and Ethernet traffic as well) in the transmitter path affects the performance of the RX path? Many thanks, Jorge. On 28 September 2010 05:43, Eric Blossom wrote: > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 10:07:07AM +0200, Jor

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How to balance workload among cores? Laptop cannot keep up with the USRP2 data flow.

2010-10-02 Thread Jorge Miguel
oth of them when running alone work. That is the fact I do not understand. Regards, Jorge. On 2 October 2010 17:03, Tom Rondeau wrote: > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 5:52 AM, Jorge Miguel wrote: > > Hi ! > > > > Eric, thanks for your advise. Some results here. > > > &

[Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 Noise figure and Phase noise measurement methods

2010-10-03 Thread Jorge Miguel
Hi all!, I am going to measure both parameters, noise figure and phase noise of my USRP2+XCVR2450 transceiver. After some reading about different methods of measuring them I have some questions. Phase noise. I read that in the lack of a Signal Source Analyzer (SSA) the most spread method of measu

[Discuss-gnuradio] Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8172 (rev 10)

2010-10-04 Thread Jorge Miguel
Hi all! I post a problem I had when transmitting and receiving a FM signal at the same time. I did a much simpler experiment (transmitting a sine wave) at 60MHz and make an FFT of the received spectrum. Unfortunately I faced the same problem. Lots and lots of dropped frames that affects the recei

[Discuss-gnuradio] XCVR2450 simple questions

2010-10-11 Thread Jorge Miguel
Hi everybody! I read a lot of posts about XCVR2450 and I am still confused about its performance. I would like to set up a pulse doppler radar application around 2.4 GHz with USRP2 + XCVR2450 My simple questions are: Does XCVR2450 work in full duplex mode? If yes: Does anybody know the isolation

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] XCVR2450 simple questions

2010-10-11 Thread Jorge Miguel
most of the time of my unambiguous radar range waiting to the system to switch to reception mode. Many thanks, Jorge. On 11 October 2010 20:05, Jason Abele wrote: > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Jorge Miguel wrote: > > My simple questions are: > > Does XCVR2450 work in f

[Discuss-gnuradio] Lissajous figure of two cosines. Transmitted (basic tx); Received (basic rx)

2010-10-12 Thread Jorge Miguel
Dear all, I am trying to understand why my Lissajous plot between two cosine signals is not stable. I transmit a cosine signal with the basic tx. I receive the signal with the basic rx. Interpolation and decimation rates are 500 in both cases. What I get is an ellipse (that means that frequency

[Discuss-gnuradio] Why I cannot see a TX pulse and the RX pulse in the same oscilloscope in time domain

2010-10-12 Thread Jorge Miguel
Hello all, I did some test when transmitting and receiving a pulse. After seeing the transmitted and received signal on a single oscilloscope (in GRC). Flowgraph: Vector source - Oscilloscope A - Rational resampler - USRP2 sink (500 interpolation) USRP2 source (500 decimation) - Rational resample

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] XCVR2450 simple questions

2010-10-12 Thread Jorge Miguel
Hi, Now it is clear enough that the XCVR2450 is not full duplex. The question I asked in my first post in the case it is not full duplex is still unknown for me. How long does it take to the board to switch from transmission mode to reception mode? In the data sheet I can read a picture called "

[Discuss-gnuradio] Switching between TX and RX on XCVR2450

2010-10-17 Thread Jorge Miguel
Hi, I wonder if it is possible to switch between TX and RX on XCVR2450 using GRC (in the same workflow). If not, what is the easiest way to achieve it? I would like to build an application that transmits a signal and then switchs to reception. Afterwards it has to switch to TX again and so on. M

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Switching between TX and RX on XCVR2450

2010-10-17 Thread Jorge Miguel
Hi Kuntal, I´m afraid the XCVR2450 does not allow full duplex working mode. So I need to enable tx, then disable transmission and enable reception. Is it possible in GRC? If nothow is it possible? Many thanks! Jorge. On 17 October 2010 20:26, Kuntal Ray wrote: > > Hi Jorge, > > You can us

[Discuss-gnuradio] usrp2_card_burner_guy.py

2010-10-18 Thread Jorge Miguel
Hello all, Does anybody knows why I get this error when trying to execute the card burner tool? $ python usrp2_card_burner_gui.py File "usrp2_card_burner_gui.py", line 1 http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";> ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax Many thanks, Jorge. __

[Discuss-gnuradio] Dynamic range of USRP2-XCVR2450

2010-10-19 Thread Jorge Miguel
Hi, I am trying to find out the dynamic range of the system USRP2-XCVR2450. Looking at the schematics it seems there isn't automatic gain control in the whole RF chain, Isn't it? Thus the dynamic range of the system would be the ADC dynamic range, which is 2 volts Am I right? Cheers, Jorge. ___

[Discuss-gnuradio] UDP driver

2010-10-20 Thread Jorge Miguel
Hello, I burned in my SD card the UDP FPGA image and the FIRMWARE of basic tx and rx for UDP http://code.ettus.com/redmine/ettus/attachments/74 http://ettus.com/u2bin/txrx_udp_20100507.bin After powering the USRP2, only the two leds of Image and FPGA and on, which is fine. My feeling was that I

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Dynamic range of USRP2-XCVR2450

2010-10-24 Thread Jorge Miguel
^14))^2]/Rin) + 72.4 dB = Maximun input power Am I right? Many thanks, Jorge On 19 October 2010 19:18, Marcus D. Leech wrote: > On 10/19/2010 12:21 PM, Jorge Miguel wrote: > > Hi Marcus! > > How do you get the 85 dB value? Is the Intermodulation distorsion of the > page 3 ADC

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Dynamic range of USRP2-XCVR2450

2010-10-24 Thread Jorge Miguel
2*N + 1.76) There is something I miss..grr ! Many thanks. Jorge. On 24 October 2010 19:57, Marcus D. Leech wrote: > On 10/24/2010 01:07 PM, Jorge Miguel wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am trying to find out the minimum/maximun input power of the ADC > > LTC2284. >

[Discuss-gnuradio] Leds on XCVR2450 transceiver

2010-10-28 Thread Jorge Miguel
HI, I wonder if the red Leds of the XCVR2450 have any meaning. Many thanks, Jorge ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio

[Discuss-gnuradio] How is gain sorted between the two LNAs around the mixer in the XCVR2450

2010-10-31 Thread Jorge Miguel
Hello, I would like to know how the gain setting (up to 92 dB in Rx mode) of the MAXIM2829 is sorted between the two amplifiers placed around the mixer. I is clear in the data sheet what the total gain is depending on the gain settings but it is not clear where the gain is. Most of them can be be

[Discuss-gnuradio] RF Gain and BB gain of XCVR2450

2010-11-01 Thread Jorge Miguel
Hello, I will rephrase former question. When using the XCVR2450, up to 92dB gain in rx mode is allowed. However this gain is shared between to places. Gain at RF and then gain at baseband (after the mixing) It is very important (from the point of view of the Noise Figure) how gain is shared. The

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] RF Gain and BB gain of XCVR2450

2010-11-01 Thread Jorge Miguel
ric Blossom wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 05:36:35PM +0100, Jorge Miguel wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I will rephrase former question. > > > > Jorge, I don't know the answer to your question, but I do that the > > answer is in the source cod

[Discuss-gnuradio] LO of the USRP2 motherboard

2010-11-09 Thread Jorge Miguel
Hi, I have an easy question. When I use my basic T/Rx daughterboards I can tune the receiver to an specific frequency. Since the basic T/Rx doesn't have any LO, I would like to know where is physically that LO in the USRP2 motherboard. I cannot find anything in the schematics. Where is it? Is that

[Discuss-gnuradio] XCRV2450 tx gain

2010-11-22 Thread Jorge Miguel
Hi, I can see that the XCVR2450 allows to set a TX gain from 0dB to 30dB. I see in the XCVR2450 schematics that in the TX path path there is a MAXIM2829 chip (which has a programmable TX gain register from 0 to 64 value) and then a power amplifier which amplifies 25-30dB (depending on the frequen

[Discuss-gnuradio] Create a discontinuous and timed Tx/Rx stream from/to XCVR2450

2010-12-06 Thread Jorge Miguel
Dear all, I would like to build an application that: Between T0 and T1: Transmit my wave Between T2 and T3: Receive data Between T4 and T5 Transmit my wave Between T6 and T7 Receive data Where Tx should be totally defined and controlled (from the minimum possible value to any other value) H

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Create a discontinuous and timed Tx/Rx stream from/to XCVR2450

2010-12-10 Thread Jorge Miguel
Hi people, Can anybody give me his/her impression about my problem detailed bellow? I would really appreciate it Regards, Jorge On 6 December 2010 21:17, Jorge Miguel wrote: > Dear all, > > I would like to build an application that: > > Between T0 and T1: Transmit my wave >