Hi Radio User aka "radiogeek381" - USRPs work for me on Big Sur using UHD
from MacPorts; I've tested a B200mini, B210, E310, and X310. I'm mostly
testing UHD 4.0 (port "uhd-devel") rather than 3.15 (port "uhd"), but
either should work. I have a bunch of builtbots for testing MacPorts
builds, including UHD, from OSX 10.4 through current, and I've had success
running UHD 3.9 on a PowerPC Mac running 10.4 (PPC 32-bit) -- it takes some
work, and USB is limited to 2.0 with a PCI adapter ... but it does work! At
one point a month ago, I had buildbots up for 10.4 PPC 32-bit, 10.12 Intel
64-bit, and 11.0-beta ARM 64-bit ... those were some good times!
I find it odd that the hardware Manufacturer is being reported as "Unknown"
... it should be "Cypress". For example on my OSX 10.12 buildbot here's
what I see right after plugging in my rev1 B210:
{{{
WestBridge :
Product ID: 0x0020
Vendor ID: 0x2500
Version: 1.00
Serial Number: 0000000004BE
Speed: Up to 480 Mb/sec
Manufacturer: Cypress
Location ID: 0x14100000 / 14
Current Available (mA): 500
Current Required (mA): 200
Extra Operating Current (mA): 0
}}}
I see the same on Big Sur (and, actually, all of the Macs I've ever tried
this on; the test is the same plus or minus formatting and minor other
differences). After running "uhd_find_devices", the firmware is loaded onto
the USRP and it "morphs" into a different USB device -- same basic info but
it requires the OS USB stack to properly reënumerate ... and OSX / macOS
has some issues here. My current-rev B210 (green board; big-honkin' USB
connector) almost never experiences issues during morphing / reënumeration,
while my rev1 B210 (white board; svelte / thin [and fragile] USB connector)
experiences it reliably -- more than 50% of the time at USRP power-up.
Can you send me (off list) the hardware report for your USRP & I'll work
with you to try to figure out what's going on. - MLD
---
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On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 4:47 PM Radio User via USRP-users <
usrp-users@lists.ettus.com> wrote:
> With the upgrade to Big Sur, I’ve been unable to initialize my B210.
>
> (Hope the markup works…
> ```
> $ uhd_usrp_probe
>
> [INFO] [UHD] Mac OS; Clang version 12.0.0 (clang-1200.0.32.27);
> Boost_107100; UHD_3.15.0.0-MacPorts-Release
>
> [INFO] [B200] Loading firmware image:
> /opt/local/share/uhd/images/usrp_b200_fw.hex...
>
> Error: LookupError: KeyError: No devices found for ----->
> Empty Device Address
>
> $ uhd_usrp_probe
> [INFO] [UHD] Mac OS; Clang version 12.0.0 (clang-1200.0.32.27);
> Boost_107100; UHD_3.15.0.0-MacPorts-Release
>
> Error: LookupError: KeyError: No devices found for ----->
> Empty Device Address
>
> $ uhd_usrp_probe --args type=b200
>
> Error: LookupError: KeyError: No devices found for ----->
>
> Device Address:
> type: b200
>
> ```
>
> This happens after a fresh reboot (where the USB connection was made
> *after* the reboot) and many times thereafter.
>
> Running Big Sur 11.2.1 on a 2018 Mac mini (x86).
>
> In the hardware summary, the device shows up as “Manufacturer: Unknown”
> but the USRP's serial number is reported correctly. This indicates that
> there is enough of a path from host to USRP for the USB driver to see the
> device serial number. But, oddly, not enough to get a product and vendor
> id.
>
> I’m at a bit of a loss.
>
>
> The device works as expected on a linux box with UHD 4.0 as it did with
> UHD 3.15.
>
>
>
>
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