A couple things you can try:

   - Connect your laptop and the X440 to a router and let the router assign
   a DHCP address to the X440 and try to uhd_find_devices/ssh into it that way
   - Connect via the QSFP ports and ssh into the X440 via any of the
   default SFP addresses ( 192.168.10.2, 11.2, 12.2, 13.2 ). You'll need to
   set your computer's SFP interface to be a static IP on the same subnet

Once you're in, you can check the UHD version by running uhd_find_devices
on the X440 itself, and you can change to a static IP by following this
section of the UHD manual:
https://files.ettus.com/manual/page_usrp_x4xx.html#x4xx_getting_started_network_connectivity_ifcs

Hope this helps,
Chris

On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 12:46 PM Daniel White <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear USRP-Users,
>
> I am trying to establish a connection from my laptop (ThinkPad P53) to an
> X440, initially,  via 1G ethernet cable, but uhd_find_devices, or
> uhd_usrp_probe fail despite bring able to ping the device.
>
>    - *Preamble*
>
> I have a USRP-2954 and have had no problem operating this, via the same 1G
> ethernet cable (with 10GB RJ45 to FSP+ adaptor). I have used Ubuntu 22.04
> and 24.04.1 with both building from source and directly apt installing the
> binaries, able to find success with uhd_find_devices afterwards.
>
> A difference between the USRP-2954 and X440 is that the USRP-2954 uses a
> fixed IP address (192.168.40.2) where are Eth0 on the X440 is configured to
> use a DHCP-assigned IP address. For a while I have experimented with
> network settings on the host laptop, with varying levels of insight gained,
> but never able to get a response recognised from uhd_find_devices with the
> X440.
>
>    - *Ubuntu 24.04.1 | apt install libuhd-dev uhd-host*
>
> After installation and verification, and expecting uhd_find_devices to
> work with 1G Ethernet connection, it fails.
>
> I attempted permutating ubuntu network settings to establish a connection.
> Only with the 'shared to other computers' option does ubuntu declare a
> connection has been established. From this, with wireshark I can confirm
> communication from the X440 via its serial number and mac address, and find
> its ip address (10.42.0.159).
> I can ping the device with 'shared to other computers' or with a fixed
> address set on the computer as 10.42.0.1. I cannot however ssh into the
> device, or get a valid response from uhd_find_devices / uhd_usrp_probe with
> known arguments queried.
>
> Connecting the laptop to the 'PS to USB' usb-c port, I expect to see a new
> usb device recognised on the laptop with lsusb, lsblk*, *ls -lash
> /dev/tty*, but never does the number of connections change after powering
> cycling the device while connected in this way. This was my hope through
> after finding
> https://forums.ni.com/t5/USRP-Software-Radio/Unable-to-find-usrp-devices-for-USRP-X440-RJ45-ethernet/td-p/4354614
>
>
>    - *Ubuntu 24.04.1 | building 4.7.0.0 from source*
>
> I installed all dependencies in both
> https://files.ettus.com/manual/page_build_guide.html (only without
> libcurses5 and libcurses5-dev) and
> https://kb.ettus.com/Building_and_Installing_the_USRP_Open-Source_Toolchain_(UHD_and_GNU_Radio)_on_Linux
>  (24.04
> version).
>
> In the cmake stage, I notice that it failed to find modules gevent, mprpc,
> pyudev and pyroute2. Previously I had included this (aside mprpc) with
> similar outcome.
>
> After completing the build, I can ping the device successfully (ICMP Echo
> ping request and reply) with fixed ip set, but attempting uhd_usrp_probe
> with this yeilds Destination unreachable.
>
>    - *Additional notes*
>
> With each attempt I turn firewall off, via ufw and iptables, as I am on a
> closed network.
>
> From the Ettus's X440 Getting Started Guide, "*Note that if you are
> operating the device in Network Mode, the version of UHD running on the
> host computer and the USRP X4x0 must match*".
> With this I need to make sure the UHD versions are matching. However with
> no way found so far to access the X440 to check its UHD version, I have
> tried all versions since 4.5.0.0 not including release candidates.
> I will be doing this with release candidates with Ubuntu 20 in the mean
> time, and will update if I have success with this.
>
>    - *Summary*
>
> Cannot connect to X440 via 1G ethernet, aside ping responses with fixed ip
> address.
> Cannot recognise the X440 as a usb device required to access the
> filesystems directly on the device.
>
> To establish a connection from this as a starting point via networking
> configuration, are there any suggestions?
> To restart the setup from a fresh ubuntu installation, is there anything I
> should change that may improve my chances? It is possible I have missed
> some crucial dependencies for the X440 specifically?
>
> I have saved all logs for the build process and can share these.
>
> Scenere thanks for any and all guidance,
> Dan
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