Moreover, the best "tell" is to look at the N210 motherboard. If the SRAM chip is on the top side, it's a rev 2/3. If the SRAM is on the bottom side, it's a rev 4. If you send a picture along of the top of the N210, I can tell you if it's early or late rev.
On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 11:36 AM Ian Buckley via USRP-users < usrp-users@lists.ettus.com> wrote: > Joe, > So I scratched my head about this a little late last night and looked back > through the development repository for the N210 and as far as I can tell > there was never customer facing FPGA code for a Rev2 N210. Chatting with > Matt this morning he shared my feeling that a Rev2 wasn't sold to > customers, so I'm curious if you have a unit that has a factory label that > says N210Rev2 or if you have seen "usrp2 rev2.0" on the PCB (which can be > missleading). > > Also have you tried booting into the safe image and verifying that it at > least pings on 192.168.10.2? > > If we can conclusively identify which rev of h/w you have I can probably > help further. > > Ian > > On Thu, May 9, 2019, 8:05 AM Joe Martin via USRP-users < > usrp-users@lists.ettus.com> wrote: > >> Argh. Yes, maybe that’s what I will need to do then. I’ll try it. >> >> Looks like the earliest vintage of UHD that’s available is Feb 2014 >> (v3.4.0), which is about 4 years after the Rev2 N210, I think. So that UHD >> version may still be too recent to work with the Rev2 N210. That’ll be my >> last attempt before abandoning the thing as you did with yours. >> >> Thanks for the comments and help, Jason. Good luck with your projects! >> >> Joe >> >> On May 9, 2019, at 8:20 AM, Jason Matusiak <ja...@gardettoengineering.com> >> wrote: >> >> Maybe try running a VM of a version of Ubuntu that is roughly the vintage >> of that version of UHD? >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* USRP-users <usrp-users-boun...@lists.ettus.com> on behalf of Joe >> Martin via USRP-users <usrp-users@lists.ettus.com> >> *Sent:* Thursday, May 9, 2019 9:53 AM >> *To:* Joe Martin >> *Cc:* usrp-users@lists.ettus.com >> *Subject:* [USRP-users] Need a little help with running legacy prebuilt >> UHD versions >> >> I need a bit of help to understand how to run legacy prebuilt UHD >> versions from the files.ettus.com/binaries/uhd repository. >> >> I would like to try various UHD versions to try to find a version that >> will run with an elderly (Rev 2) N210 with unknown firmware/fpga images in >> it. After downloading a legacy version, e.g., >> uhd_003.004.000-release_Ubuntu-11.10-x86_64.deb, and clicking “install” I >> am not understanding what I need to do next to actually run the version, as >> uhd_usrp_probe —version reports the version of UHD that I originally had >> installed, not the legacy version I intended to install. >> >> I am running Ubuntu 18.04, should I expect to be able to run the legacy >> versions labeled, for example, *_Ubuntu-11.10-x86_64.deb, as in the example >> above ? >> >> Clearly I’m missing something fundamental, and likely simple, in my >> understanding about how to use these prebuilt older versions. I have had >> no problem building, installing, and running UHD versions from source but I >> have never tried to run a “prebuilt” version before. >> >> Joe >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> USRP-users mailing list >> USRP-users@lists.ettus.com >> http://lists.ettus.com/mailman/listinfo/usrp-users_lists.ettus.com >> > _______________________________________________ > USRP-users mailing list > USRP-users@lists.ettus.com > http://lists.ettus.com/mailman/listinfo/usrp-users_lists.ettus.com >
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