Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] /gnuradio-examples/python/digital/transmit_path.py and bitrate Question?

2009-03-19 Thread Eric Blossom
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 09:27:03AM -0700, Johnathan Corgan wrote: 2009/3/19 w w biscuitk...@gmail.com: I've been trying to analyse the transmit_path.py script and stumped with the bitrate value.   I see bitrate being brought in from the options and also derived from pick_bitrate but I

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] starting with usrp2_fft.py

2009-03-19 Thread Eric Blossom
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 09:28:36AM -0700, leferman wrote: I am having a similar problem. I used ethtool to disable the pause parameters for this interface; here is the output: sudo ethtool -a eth1 Pause parameters for eth1: Autonegotiate:off RX: off TX: off

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] /gnuradio-examples/python/digital/transmit_path.py and bitrate Question?

2009-03-19 Thread Eric Blossom
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 02:28:08PM -0400, w w wrote: What's confusing for me is that I see the bitrate variable (it seems to have a profound importantance) but it looks to me like it never gets assigned to a block. The following is line 119 from transmit_path.py. In my mind the function of

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Discuss

2009-03-19 Thread Eric Blossom
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 03:49:14PM -0400, Dan wrote: 2009/3/16 Philip Balister phi...@balister.org So maybe there is a way to code libusrp to use the libusb1 interface without directly accessing the file descriptor. The other approach is to try to extract the file descriptor from

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP Input Calibration / CIC Filter Response

2009-03-19 Thread Eric Blossom
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 05:43:56PM -0400, Erich Stuntebeck wrote: Hi, I'm trying to calibrate the USRP so I can get true dBm readings out of it. I'm using an LFRX card with 16 decimation and a center frequency of 2 MHz so I can look at the range from DC - 4 MHz. I hooked up a signal

Re: OMAP3 (was Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Discuss)

2009-03-19 Thread Eric Blossom
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 06:18:53PM -0400, Philip Balister wrote: Eric Blossom wrote: Philip mentioned in a previous post that Angstrom can be built with libusb-1.12 as a workaround so we can look into some sort of kernel hacking as well. But if there were a better approach than this it would

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] tunnel.py buffer crash

2009-03-19 Thread Eric Blossom
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 08:21:43PM -0700, yyzhuang wrote: Is it possible a GNU Radio distribution problem? In the new lab we installed the whole GNU Radio again. Thanks. Yanyan Can you more-or-less-reliably reproduce the problem? If so, how often does it occur? Every time? Once every 10

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] tunnel.py buffer crash

2009-03-19 Thread Eric Blossom
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 08:50:13PM -0700, yyzhuang wrote: I'm sorry. If we do ./tunnel and ping between two boxes over the air, both tx and rx breaks after a few ICMP packets exchange. They don't break at the same time though, but it does happen every time. If we do over channel emulator

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Simple USRP Interface Code

2009-03-19 Thread Eric Blossom
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:12:06AM -0700, isaacgerg wrote: Hi everyone, I was wondering if anyone has written a small C++ application which is the bare bones required to interface with the URSP. Thanks in advanced, Isaac Isaac, Take a look at the version of

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Error for gcell while installing gnuradio-3.2

2009-03-18 Thread Eric Blossom
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 06:42:49PM -0700, Somya Ajmera wrote: Hi, my gcell component of gnuradio-3.2 is not gettin configured and because of that all gr dependent commponents are also not gettin configured. It is giving the following error: checking whether host_cpu is powerpc*... no

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Question about loop testing usrp

2009-03-18 Thread Eric Blossom
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:39:00AM +0800, Pete Kay wrote: Hi, I am trying to run siggen-oscope test using the A board for the siggen and the B board for the oscope. I use the command usrp_oscope.py --rx-subdev=A to specify the board side, but this does not work. Could someone please help

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Help polarity inversion

2009-03-18 Thread Eric Blossom
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:04:27AM -0400, Marco Bottino wrote: Hello, I was doing some test with a 6Volts battery with the USRP in order to be able to use my USRP outdoors. (Sonnenschein A506/4.2 s http://www.sonnenschein.org/A500.htm) Everything was fine when I unintentionally inverted the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] libxml2.m4

2009-03-18 Thread Eric Blossom
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 05:13:29PM +0100, Dimitris Symeonidis wrote: I have written a block that reads its parameters from an xml file. For this I need libxml2-dev to be installed. How can I add this condition to my ./configure checks? Is it enough to add an .m4 file under config/ ? If yes,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Slow message queues... How to speed up?

2009-03-18 Thread Eric Blossom
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 09:44:05AM -0700, E. Ornelas wrote: Hello! I'm trying to write a program that read data from the usrp, then preforms a fft and plots the values of the maximum frequency and correspondent amplitude in real time. I've come across this problem: - At first I was

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] DBPSK and Carrier Suppressed or Not?

2009-03-18 Thread Eric Blossom
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 02:55:41PM -0400, w w wrote: I'm putting together a DBPSK Tx and Rx and running into problems when the modulated signal hits the USRP. When I receive the signal on the USRP there's a very pronouced carrierI've confirmed with a spectrum analyser that the signal on

[Discuss-gnuradio] usrp2 ethernet

2009-03-18 Thread Eric Blossom
Hi Folks, I know a few of you were having problems with certain gigabit ethernet cards. I've fixed a couple of what I think are relatively minor bugs in how we were setting up the usrp2's ethernet PHY chip to advertise our capabilities. We now correctly advertise: That we ONLY do 1000BASE-T

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] bad usrp followup 2

2009-03-18 Thread Eric Blossom
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 06:12:22PM -0400, emat...@nd.edu wrote: I discovered that F501 is measuring as an open; I take it that this is a fuse, and probably it has blown. Can anybody supply me with the part specification so I can replace it? The BOM data sheet doesn't seem to specify

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Reconfiguring a hier_block2 without locking the top block

2009-03-17 Thread Eric Blossom
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 03:47:54PM +1300, Kieran Brownlees wrote: Hello all, Is the code designed so you can .lock() a individual hier_block2 and reconfigure it without having to lock the overall top_block? IF you do have to lock the top block, why? You can lock/unlock on anything derived

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Stop receiving in tunnel.py

2009-03-17 Thread Eric Blossom
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 09:06:36AM +0100, Natalia Olano wrote: Hello everyone, I am doing some modifications on the tunnel.py example. At some point of the execution, I would like to stop the receive path and not to perform the rx_callback for a very short period, less than one second

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] [USRP2] Some problems by sending sinusoidal signals. :-(

2009-03-17 Thread Eric Blossom
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:32:57PM +0100, Costantini, Andrea wrote: Dear all, the last discussion on sending and receiving the sinusoidal signal raised to me a lot of questions. I am also having some problems with this basic example. I have searched over the whole archive without founding

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 - BasicTX first Nyquist zone frequencies

2009-03-17 Thread Eric Blossom
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 01:08:54PM -0300, Ronaldo Nunez wrote: Thanks Eric, I will try your suggestion, if I get it I will share the information with the community. Regards, Ronaldo Thanks! Eric ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 - BasicTX first Nyquist zone frequencies

2009-03-16 Thread Eric Blossom
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:05:28AM -0300, Ronaldo Nunez wrote: Hello, I read in faq that the bigger frequency of the first Nyquist zone of USRP2 is about 170 MHz, using a BasicTX daughter board. My USRP2 couldn't get more than 50 MHz with this daughter board. I'm using 9939 firmware

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Discuss

2009-03-16 Thread Eric Blossom
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 02:13:28PM -0700, Johnathan Corgan wrote: On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Michael Dickens m...@alum.mit.edu wrote: That said, there is a libusb-compat-0.1 compatibility layer for libusb 1.0 ... anyone tested this out for various-OS usability?  Reading through the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Shutting down a usrp_sink_s

2009-03-16 Thread Eric Blossom
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 09:09:57AM -0700, Johnathan Corgan wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 7:43 AM, Mattias Kjellsson m...@kth.se wrote: If I install a signal handler which catches ctrl+c and sets a flag, and then use (still the same configuration) uses something like: top_block-start();

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio 1.3.1 and SMP

2009-03-15 Thread Eric Blossom
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 03:25:28AM -0700, Hew How Chee wrote: Hi Bob, cat /proc/cpuinfo give 4 processors. Did more test on running the same piece of code, which is basically a modified fm receiver. Usually I see nearly 100% loading on 1 of the 4 processors . But sometimes the load is

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] ImportError: cannot import name packbits

2009-03-13 Thread Eric Blossom
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 07:39:07AM +0100, Jay Kumar wrote: Hello , I have completely installed Gnuradio-3.1.3 on RHEL4.Even I have uploaded the firmware on the usrp.But when i was trying to run usrp_fft.py i got the attribute key error.After searhing through all forum i gor to know that

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] extract timestamp data / The Plan

2009-03-13 Thread Eric Blossom
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:25:17AM -0500, Douglas Geiger wrote: The details on all of this still need to be flushed out, but this is the basic idea. To all: * Do you think that this would allow you to easily build MACs or other packet based things in GNU Radio? Assume the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] extract timestamp data / The Plan

2009-03-13 Thread Eric Blossom
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:41:22AM -0700, Dustin Torres wrote: Eric, Yes I believe this would tremendously facilitate MAC development within GNU Radio. I have recently begun working on integrating a configurable MAC layer to be used with GNU Radio and a USRP board. Thanks. I am using this

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] tunnel.py buffer crash

2009-03-12 Thread Eric Blossom
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:44:59PM -0700, yyzhuang wrote: Hi, Has anybody got this error when running tunnel.py in gnuradio-example (with virtual IP addresses set up on two PCs and ping each other on this tunnel)? ./gr_buffer.h:125: unsigned int gr_buffer::index_add(unsigned int,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] how to take input from multiple subdevices in the USRP simultaneously

2009-03-12 Thread Eric Blossom
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 09:40:29AM -0700, sHabzbd wrote: Hi Everyone: I am guessing that my last post was not clear since I didnt get any replies. So here I go again. 1. I am using two Flex900 daughter cards on a single USRP. 2. I am getting to select two subdevices (0,0) and (1,0) ie.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Claiming interface 2 (RX) fails!

2009-03-12 Thread Eric Blossom
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 09:03:23PM +0500, Ujala Qasim wrote: Hi! I am trying to write a program in C that interfaces between USRP and Windows, this is my initial code: ... However, the claiming of interface always fails on bulk_udh. Please guide me in this regard as to what I am doing

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Access to history before there is one (Block writing question)

2009-03-11 Thread Eric Blossom
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 02:10:19PM -0500, Jason Uher wrote: I'm in the process of writing a basic block inherited from gr_sync_interpolator which uses the past values to do stuff. When the block first starts, the history is populated with zeros, is there some way to get a pointer to the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Spectrum_sense of a smaller banwidth

2009-03-11 Thread Eric Blossom
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 06:45:02AM -0700, David Adrian wrote: Thank you for the replies Eric! 1.You said about using file_sink , but in my case I do not think that will work because I need to make real time precessing of the signal. If I use files it will take to long. 2. My theses is

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] no module named _gnuradio_swig_python

2009-03-10 Thread Eric Blossom
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 05:59:15AM +0100, Jay Kumar wrote: Hello Eric, I have already tried installing gnuradio-3.1.3 but there were certain bugs in that. I definitely wouldn't go back to anything before 3.1.3. Are you sure you don't have some partial GNU Radio installations laying around?

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Spectrum_sense of a smaller banwidth

2009-03-10 Thread Eric Blossom
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 03:33:32AM -0700, Adi85 wrote: Still getting an error! thank you in advance class topBlock(gr.top_block): def __init__(self): gr.top_block.__init__(self) fftsize = 256 udecim = 256 mywin = window.blackmanharris(fftsize)

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Minimum value for center frequency step size

2009-03-10 Thread Eric Blossom
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 05:33:36AM +0100, Karim El Defrawy wrote: Hi, I am using a FLEX2400 transceiver daughterboard and was wondering what's the minimum step size that I can use to set the center frequency. I tried steps down to 500KHz and I could tell the difference between the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Possiblity of Modulation without the usrp? PSK modulator?

2009-03-10 Thread Eric Blossom
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 09:31:57AM -0400, w w wrote: Greetings, I'm wondering if you all could tell me if it is possible to set up and modulate a signal without the usrp? If so how do you insert the carrier? For a BPSK siganl do you just multiply carrier by the modulated signal? I also

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] puzzle of multi_fft.py

2009-03-10 Thread Eric Blossom
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 06:45:56AM -0700, Ling Huang wrote: Or the usrp just is not able to work fine with two rfx daughterboard? The USRP works fine with two RFX daughterboards. Eric ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Spectrum_sense of a smaller banwidth

2009-03-10 Thread Eric Blossom
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 10:48:10AM -0700, David Adrian wrote: Thanks for the reply Eric, here is what I have now: #!/usr/bin/env python from gnuradio import gr, gru, window from gnuradio import usrp from gnuradio.wxgui import stdgui, fftsink, scopesink import wx class

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Listen to Mp3 via FM broadcast

2009-03-09 Thread Eric Blossom
On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 04:01:53PM -0700, didem colak wrote: hi all, does the problem still continue? also i have an error msg at below. di...@didem:~/Desktop/gnuradio/gnuradio-examples/python/usrp$ ./didemdenemeraw.py -1 dodi.pls Traceback (most recent call last): File

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] no module named _gnuradio_swig_python

2009-03-09 Thread Eric Blossom
On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 08:09:32AM +0100, Jaskirat Singh wrote: I have installed gnuaradio-3.0.4 on fedora core7.The installation is complete and whenever i run make check command inget the following error: First off, is there any reason you're trying to install ancient GR code? If not, please

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How can I set mux for two daughterboards(rfx 400 and rfx 2400) receiving simultaneously?

2009-03-09 Thread Eric Blossom
On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 12:22:50AM -0700, Ling Huang wrote: I set: usrp.source(nchan=2) set.mux(0x32103210) di=gr.deinterleave(gr.sizeof_gr_complex) self.connect( self.u, di ) self.connect( (di,0), self.chan0_filt, self.packet_receiver0 ) self.connect( (di,1), self.chan1_filt,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Spectrum_sense of a smaller banwidth

2009-03-09 Thread Eric Blossom
On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 08:34:50AM -0700, Adi85 wrote: Hello! Here is what I would like to do: I want to use spectrum_sense.py in order to detect the amplitude of the maximum power bin from a bandwidth of about 7 khz centered to 10.7Mhz and then display the result. I do not need to change

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] fusb_generic_read (void *buffer, int nbytes) is a part of which class?

2009-03-09 Thread Eric Blossom
On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 08:48:29PM +0500, Ujala Qasim wrote: Hi, Can someone tell me that the function bool fusb_generic_read (void *buffer, int nbytes) belongs to which class? As it is not a part of the fusb_generic or fusb There is no free function called fusb_generic_read. A quick look at

Re: [Discuss-GnuRadio] Series of 'B' with Tunnel.py

2009-03-09 Thread Eric Blossom
On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 12:21:55PM -0400, Ahmed Majeed Khan wrote: Hi, I see a series of 'B' while running tunnel.py on one machine and this series coupled with with 'uO' sequences on the other. While 'uO' is for under-run stuff, what do the series of 'B' means?? -Ahmed Ahmed,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] benchmark_xx Packets

2009-03-09 Thread Eric Blossom
On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 11:29:54PM +0100, William Sherman wrote: Hi, I am planning to modify benchmark_xx to send and receive custom packets (similar to 802.11 packets). I have been rooting around these two files. I would like to know: in benchmark_rx how does the radio know when it has

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] hellos

2009-03-09 Thread Eric Blossom
On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 12:11:33PM -0600, Don Latham wrote: Hello. Another mewling newbie out here. Hoping to implement USRP at 2300 GHz for EME, hook to WSGJ65 somehow. Anyone know where the .PDF file(s) are for the 2400 T/R daughterboard is (are)? I've looked at the USRP trunk, and I can

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Pathological FFT sizes

2009-03-09 Thread Eric Blossom
On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 08:53:26PM -0400, Marcus D. Leech wrote: I discovered, rather by accident, that the FFTW planner seems to get its knickers royally in a twist for certain FFT sizes. The code d_plan = fftwf_plan_dft_1d (fft_size,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gr.file_sink() or connect() limitations?

2009-03-06 Thread Eric Blossom
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 10:35:37PM -0800, Francesco B. wrote: Below is a short GNU Radio pipeline. Its purpose is to write an impulse response to a character device node representing an FPGA (which contains a 4-coefficient lowpass filter), read the FPGA's output, and store said output in a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: how to setup adc_ratein grc_usrp.simple_source_c

2009-03-06 Thread Eric Blossom
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 11:59:13AM +, feldmaus wrote: Josh Blum josh at joshknows.com writes: Simple source exists because actual usrp api is sooo crazy. The goal of the simple source and simple sink is to provide the most useful options to the usrp user. Thank you for your Reply.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] flexrf_base.cc

2009-03-06 Thread Eric Blossom
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 03:09:54PM +0100, Mattias Kjellsson wrote: Hi list, I was browsing the c++ code in gr-usrp today, and found a strange thing in flexrf_base.cc, line 337 to 349 in svn10524 (included below). == flexrf_base_tx::gain_min() { return usrp()-pga_max();

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Segmentation fault : Try to make dual channel building blocks

2009-03-06 Thread Eric Blossom
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 11:03:28AM -0800, Yong J. Chang wrote: Hi all, Now I'm building some signaling blocks having dual output streams. But if I try to make dual output streams which have different data type from input stream, 'Segmentation fault' error is occurred. How can I make dual

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Segmentation fault : Try to make dual channel building blocks

2009-03-06 Thread Eric Blossom
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 05:22:44PM -0800, Yong J. Chang wrote: Thank you Eric, But I still have a problem. I simply made two blocks. 1) First One gr_data_parser::gr_data_parser () : gr_block (gr_data_parser, gr_make_io_signature (1, 1, sizeof (gr_complex)),

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] OpenBTS with DBSRX?

2009-03-05 Thread Eric Blossom
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 05:14:57AM -0800, George Roberts wrote: I'm trying to run OpenBTS using a USRP1 with an RFX900 transceiver board (to use as the transmitter) and a DBSRX board to use as a receiver. Now that I look at the OpenBTS code in depth (Transceiver/USRPDevice.cpp, specifically

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] blks2impl/dbpsk.py question

2009-03-05 Thread Eric Blossom
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 05:37:00PM +0100, Dimitris Symeonidis wrote: Hi List, I was reading through the dbpsk.py block in blks2impl, and found something that doesn't seem to make much sense (to me). Lines 272-273 read: rot = 1 rotated_const = map(lambda pt: pt * rot,

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Creating a USRP2 C++ Object

2009-03-05 Thread Eric Blossom
ldconfig sometime after installing libgruel? On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Eric Blossom e...@comsec.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 12:47:24PM -0500, Mike Leferman wrote: I'm using Ubuntu 8.10, and /usr/local/lib is in my ld.so.conf. Does ldconfig just update ld.so.conf? My program

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Is it possible to use one GSM phone, one RFX900 daughter card, and one USRP to run the OpenBTS?

2009-03-04 Thread Eric Blossom
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 11:58:51AM -0800, Jane Chen wrote: Hi all,   Because of the tight budget, I only have one GSM phone, one RFX900 daughter card, and one USRP. Is it possible to play with the OpenBTS with one RFX900 daughter card instead of two?   Thank you, Jane Jane, It might

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Creating a USRP2 C++ Object

2009-03-03 Thread Eric Blossom
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 01:19:15PM -0500, Mike Leferman wrote: I'm working on a C++ program which directly creates an instance of a USRP2 object. When the program is being run, the following error is thrown: /usr/local/lib/libusrp2.so.0: undefined symbol: _ZN5gruel7sys_pri13usrp2_backendEv

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] site down?

2009-03-03 Thread Eric Blossom
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 06:53:45PM -0600, Brett L. Trotter wrote: Subversion and www seem to be misbehaving. Is it just me/my connection? Is there an ETA on revival? I just unwedged it. It should be OK now. Eric ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] (old) USRP schematics

2009-03-02 Thread Eric Blossom
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 02:43:11PM +1030, Berndt Josef Wulf wrote: G'day, can someone point me to the schematics of the old USRP in PDF or PS format? I had a browse in usrp-hw couldn't identify anything useful in there. Thanks, cheerio Berndt Try here:

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] audio_alsa_sink problem

2009-03-01 Thread Eric Blossom
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 09:38:31PM +0200, Arto Oksanen wrote: When trying to use audio sink in GRC I get following error: audio: using audio_alsa audio_alsa_sink[hw:0,0]: set_period_time_near failed: Invalid argument Traceback (most recent call last): File /home/gr/top_block.py, line 45,

[Discuss-gnuradio] SIGINT.ccc.de 2009 Call for Proposals

2009-03-01 Thread Eric Blossom
FYI, http://sigint.ccc.de/sigint/2009/wiki/Call_for_Proposals/English Eric ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio

[Discuss-gnuradio] Hacking at Random: Dutch outdoor technology-conference

2009-03-01 Thread Eric Blossom
FYI, These outdoor European hacker get-togethers are a fabulous time! I highly recommend them! August 13-16, near Vierhouten, NL. https://har2009.org https://wiki.har2009.org/page/Main_Page Eric ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Hacking at Random: Dutch outdoor technology-conference

2009-03-01 Thread Eric Blossom
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 12:56:12AM +0100, Martin Dvh wrote: Eric Blossom wrote: FYI, These outdoor European hacker get-togethers are a fabulous time! I highly recommend them! August 13-16, near Vierhouten, NL. https://har2009.org https://wiki.har2009.org/page/Main_Page

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Testing Whether USRP Can Transmit

2009-03-01 Thread Eric Blossom
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 02:59:40AM +0100, William Sherman wrote: I am working with a USRP1. I eventually will want to transmit and receive data packets between USRP1s, but right now I am getting to grips with the system. I am currently trying out the benchmark_tx, benchmark_rx programs. I

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 on Mac OS X

2009-02-28 Thread Eric Blossom
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 06:49:21PM -0500, Jakub Moskal wrote: Hello, I am debating whether to buy USRP or USRP2.. Is there any progress on the USRP2 drivers for the Mac OS X? It seems that the USRP2 FAQ hasn't been updated for a while - as far as this issue is concerned. Nothing has been

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Disconnect parts of multiple flowgraphs

2009-02-28 Thread Eric Blossom
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:13:39PM -0800, Paul Mathews wrote: I have a nice gnuradio app running using USRP, with 3 FFTsinks going at once, with the 1st FFTsink taking data from the USRP and the 2nd and 3rd FFTsinks each showing the results of further processing: 1) USRP downconverting to 1

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Details on USB buffer

2009-02-27 Thread Eric Blossom
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 04:05:52PM -0800, Tony wrote: The USRP C++ example program uses this code to move USRP USB data into a buffer:   urx-read(buf, bufsize, overrun); If this line is called many times in a short period of time will the buffer have some of the data leftover from

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] UCLA Zigbee Phy Updated

2009-02-27 Thread Eric Blossom
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 05:05:11PM -0800, Leslie Choong wrote: Hi Everyone, Just wanted to let everyone know that I've merged my RX changes and Sanna Leidelof's TX path changes and updated the CGRAN repository. You can check it out here: https://www.cgran.org/browser/projects/ucla_zigbee_phy

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Installing Gnu Radio 3.2 on centOS machine

2009-02-26 Thread Eric Blossom
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 03:14:38PM -0500, Bruce McGuffin wrote: OK, we were able to find compile-mbh.scm on the trunk, copy it, and ran make. Make didn't complain about compile-mbh.scm, but we got a lot of complaints about missing gnu-radio macros. So we gave up on the tarball, and used SVN

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] usrp2_wfm_rcv.py: prerequisites of hardware

2009-02-26 Thread Eric Blossom
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 07:01:50PM -0300, Roberto de Matos wrote: Hi, I'm a newbie and I'm trying to test my new hardware (USRP2). Can I listen a FM station with DBSRX or RFX900 or RFX2400?? My hardware: - USRP2: SW - txrx-edk10.1-r10524.binFPGA -

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] usrp alternat

2009-02-25 Thread Eric Blossom
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 06:17:35AM -0800, islam saber wrote: i buy fpga kit ( EZ1CUSB-12) and i want to know if i can make by this kit with daughterboard the usrp or not .if not please tell me alternative design for usrp thanks Using the amazing power of goggle, I found the data sheet within

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Guide for Reporting Errors and Asking for Help

2009-02-25 Thread Eric Blossom
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 04:59:43PM +0100, Patrick Strasser wrote: Hello! I wrote some lines for people asking for help in the wiki [1]. For the old stagers, please look through it, it can certainly need some polishing. Especially the common-mistakes section could need some more

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] New implementation for fusb_linux withoutallocs/frees

2009-02-24 Thread Eric Blossom
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 01:07:34PM -0500, Marcus D. Leech wrote: Eric Blossom wrote: Marcus, in my experience, USB performance has not be limited by cpu cycles. It seems to be primarily a function of the design of the host controller, the firmware in the device, and a reasonable way to get

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Timers

2009-02-24 Thread Eric Blossom
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 05:57:35PM -0500, Marcus D. Leech wrote: What's the best way to setup a timer routine that has access to the bits of the flowgraph? I'm using an external process (UI) to set dynamic values for certain USRP attributes, and one of the mechanisms I'm thinking of using

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] New implementation for fusb_linux without allocs/frees

2009-02-23 Thread Eric Blossom
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 07:38:14AM +0100, Stefan Bruens wrote: Hi, attached is a new version for fusb_linux.cc. The current implementation uses three std::list lists for free, pending and completed urbs, so submitting a single urb causes three allocs and three frees (pushing and

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] bbn_80211b_tap.py with tcpdump or wireshark

2009-02-22 Thread Eric Blossom
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 09:00:34PM -0800, Jane Chen wrote: Hi all,   I ran the bbn_80211b_tap.py.  I used both tcpdump and wireshark to try to  capture the packets. However, it doesn't work.   My steps: 1. ./bbn_80211b_tap.py. 2.ifconfig gr0 192.168.111.2 3. tcpdump -i gr0 -e -X   I

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 DBSRX testing

2009-02-22 Thread Eric Blossom
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 06:16:28AM -0800, RH200 wrote: We have got a new USRP2 and TVRX and DBSRX recievers. Though the system seems to work when the TVRX daughter board is installed using the USRP2 fft script, it does not seem to work with the DBSRX board installed. That is there seems

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Re: Re: USRP2 and external clock (from GPS receiver)

2009-02-20 Thread Eric Blossom
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 06:52:43AM +0100, Changkyu Seol wrote: Changkyu Seol wrote: Matt Ettus wrote: Thank you for the files. I tested as you suggested with firmware and fpga files you sent me and it is locked!! I used it other USRP2s and all worked fine. I modified and compiled

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 and external clock (from GPS receiver)

2009-02-20 Thread Eric Blossom
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 02:03:08PM -0600, Douglas Geiger wrote: It looks like usrp2_impl.cc never passes on the argument when you call config_mimo - I've attached a quick patch that I believe does the job correctly. When I run my host code now the clocks on my USRP2's remain synchronized

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Required Hardware

2009-02-20 Thread Eric Blossom
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:02:45PM -0800, Trevor Bosaw wrote: Hey, I'm trying to set up a transmitter that simply broadcasts voice (AM quality is fine) over a range of a few miles. It would be implemented in developing world situations, such as rural India or Africa, and therefore

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP 2 Daughter Cards

2009-02-19 Thread Eric Blossom
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:15:29AM -0500, jim graham wrote: I am trying to use the USRP 2 radio. I have been using the rx_streaming_sample script to collect data. If I use the rfx1800 daughtercard the results from the set_center_freq command seem correct but the output looks as if the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP 2 Daughter Cards

2009-02-19 Thread 'Eric Blossom'
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 01:21:37PM -0500, jim graham wrote: Eric We are using Fedora Linux version 7 on an x86 machine. OK. [Please be sure to hit Reply-All to reply to the writer and the list.] The GNU radio software is Revision 10211 (jcorgan) Last change date 1/12/2009 We have the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 Gnuradio 3.1.3 and BBN 802.11 Code Working?

2009-02-19 Thread Eric Blossom
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:40:42AM -0800, Miklos Christine wrote: Hello, I'm working on a project that involves the USRP2. I've downloaded the lastest version of Gnuradio and the BBN 802.11 code. I've come to realize that the newest release of Gnuradio is not compatible with the BBN code.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP 2 Daughter Cards

2009-02-19 Thread 'Eric Blossom'
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 02:52:41PM -0500, jim graham wrote: Eric, rx_daughterboard_id() returns id 0x0034 for the RFX 1800 daughtercard? That's a MIMO B board, so you should be fine. For the comment on the RFX boards; does this mean we are unable to use the dbs daughtercard on the USRP 2

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 and external clock (from GPS receiver)

2009-02-18 Thread Eric Blossom
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 02:20:38AM +0100, Changkyu Seol wrote: Hi! I am planning to implement multiple synchronized transmitters using USRP2 and GPS receiver. Before that I checked whether the USRP2 is locked to external clock through following experiment. 1) Connect the 10MHz and 1PPS

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Problem with How-to-write-a-block-tutorial

2009-02-18 Thread Eric Blossom
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 03:39:52PM +0100, Emil Molin wrote: Hi and thanks for the help, yes ive run it (and ive renamed the block to 'test' instead of 'howto_2' but i still get something wrong obviously because when running the test script i get this error: File ./qa_test.py, line 6, in

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 with PCMCIA Gigabit Ethernet

2009-02-18 Thread Eric Blossom
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 07:02:47PM -0300, Roberto de Matos wrote: Hi, Someone knows if the USRP2 works with PCMCIA Gigabit Ethernet adapter, like this: http://www.trendnet.com/products/proddetail.asp?prod=235_TEG-PCBUSRcat=42 My notebook has only 10/100 ethernet, and the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] problem while running find_usrps command

2009-02-18 Thread Eric Blossom
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 05:13:26PM -0800, Smith L. wrote: Hi, When I run ./find_usrps to detect usrp2 it gives following error: error while loading shared libraries: libboost_thread-gcc43-mt-1_38.so.1.38.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I already installed this

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] implement d8psk on benchmark_tx.py

2009-02-17 Thread Eric Blossom
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 08:30:26PM -0800, Firas Abbas wrote: Hi, On Tue, 2/17/09, George Nychis gnyc...@cmu.edu wrote: Hello, Tianning/Bill/Daniel! The performance of 8PSK matches pretty similarly to 16-QAM. So, 8PSK is usually never used in a real system as you get better

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] buffering in gr_file

2009-02-17 Thread Eric Blossom
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:20:31AM -0500, Marcus D. Leech wrote: Is there a way to turn off buffering on gr_file? (Short of adding an fflush in the C++ code that implements the work function?). I have an app that writes a single floating-point number to a FIFO at a rate of 2Hz, and it

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] How to read rx_unpack.dat in MatLab

2009-02-17 Thread Eric Blossom
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:16:49PM -0500, Bishal Thapa wrote: Hi, I am a newbie to Matlab and less experienced (not a newbie anymore :)) in GNUradio. I have a quick question. How can I load rx_unpack.dat in the Matlab. The simple load function didn't work. Most probably it is because, it

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNURadio/USRP build issue

2009-02-17 Thread Eric Blossom
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:46:59PM -0500, Ahmed Majeed Khan wrote:  Hi, I am working over a research project employing GNU-Radio over USRP. Presently I am developing tool-chain for the Radio. While I completed all the steps mentioned on: http://gnuradio.org/trac/wiki/FedoraInstall

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Need help with USRP simulation test

2009-02-16 Thread Eric Blossom
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 08:51:07AM -0500, Pete Kay wrote: Hi, I am running siggen and oscope test with USRP1. I am expecting a smooth sine waveform with this: c[r...@fodora usrp]# usrp_siggen.py --sine -f 1e6 -i256 Using TX d'board A: none But I am getting some error in oscope.py

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Frequency dependent problem after syncronizing , Please help!

2009-02-16 Thread Eric Blossom
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 02:17:05PM -0800, Johnathan Corgan wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Bruhtesfa Ebrahim li...@ruby-forum.com wrote: What makes it strange is the dependence on gain.when the linear gain in the spectrum panel(usrp_fft.py)is set to 0,the signal at the center(the

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Standalone USRP2

2009-02-16 Thread Eric Blossom
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:50:54AM +0100, Yongsang Kim wrote: We want to make several standalone transmitters which transmit OFDM signals synchronized with 1pps signal and external 10MHz closk using USRP2. We want to implement the transmitters using FPGA, while daughter board parameters

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Using the USRP LFRX daughterboard to receive a complex baseband signal (I+Q)

2009-02-16 Thread Eric Blossom
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 02:24:32PM -0800, Matt Ettus wrote: Josh Blum wrote: The current USRP API does not support receiving complex signal (I on RXA and Q on RXB) from LFRX and BasicRX boards. At least not in an easy way... In the future, the USRP API will support complex samples, and

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] usrp_siggen.py underruns

2009-02-12 Thread Eric Blossom
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:07:43AM +0100, Dominik Auras wrote: Hi! Yes, there are lots of ways to do this. In this particular case, you're going to want to keep track of the worst case and average run times. Hm run times may not be the appropriate performance measure in my case. The

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: some usrp modules are missing

2009-02-12 Thread Eric Blossom
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:18:55AM +, feldmaus wrote: Markus Feldmann feldmann_markus at gmx.de writes: the usrp_diagnostic is missing. As i read, the usrp_diagnostic Tool is now called usp_probe. Regards Markus I have no idea what you're talking about :-) Have you tried

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Make fails in gr-how-to-write-a-block

2009-02-11 Thread Eric Blossom
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 03:45:54PM +0100, Emil Molin wrote: So i want to learn how to write a block but it fails to install apparently. after doing ./bootstrap and then ./configure make gives the following message: libtool: Version mismatch error. This is libtool 2.2.6, but the

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