More detailed report on bizarre USRP failure

Ok, this is my attempt at a definitive bug report for this problem.
Since
it’s mysterious, I’m going to try and be as descriptive as possible.
Thanks
in advance for your patience and help.

I am on a second gen macbook, OSX, running the latest (as of a day or
two
ago) from the svn trunk

First, running usrp_print_db.py, I get this

usb_control_msg failed: usb_control_msg(DeviceRequestTO): pipe is
stalled
usb_control_msg failed: usb_control_msg(DeviceRequestTO): pipe is
stalled
usb_control_msg failed: usb_control_msg(DeviceRequestTO): pipe is
stalled
RX d’board A: Basic Rx
RX d’board B:
TX d’board A:
TX d’board B:

I imagine that to get this information, information had to be sent over
the
USRP to my computer, so both sending and receiving information over the
USB
is possible.

Here is the info from system profiler:

USRP Rev 4:

Product ID: 0x0002
Vendor ID: 0xfffe
Version: 1.04
Speed: Up to 12 Mb/sec
Manufacturer: Free Software Folks
Location ID: 0x04100000
Current Available (mA): 500
Current Required (mA): Unknown (Device has not been configured)

This is a screenshot of what happens on running usrp_fftp.py

http://www.jcoveney.com/Picture%201.png

As you can see, everything loads properly, but then it doesn’t capture
any
data. Very odd. Could this perhaps be a problem with the batch USB data
transfer? IE for some reason, I can still send and receive data, but not
in
bulk?
(also, there is a wx related error that I’ve always gotten and has never
effected it before, and doing some research seems not to matter, but if
you
think it would help to fix it, I’m all ears)

Obviously, if I run other stuff relying on the daughterboard, the same
happens. I’ve talked to some people and they think that it could be
static,
but I don’t know. What on the board could be whacked such that this is
what
does not work?

Is there any recourse for fixing USRP’s, or am I at the western frontier
of
open source development? As always, your help is greatly appreciated.

Ah, and I forgot to mention one more thing. The errors that I get when
running usrp_fft.py are methodical, with one every second or so, which
seems
odd. if I wasn’t getting anything I’d imagine it to flood the screen
(which
is what happens i the USB cord is yanked)

2009/7/30 Jonathan C. [email protected]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 03:51:52PM -0400, Jonathan C. wrote:

Ah, and I forgot to mention one more thing. The errors that I get when
running usrp_fft.py are methodical, with one every second or so, which seems
odd. if I wasn’t getting anything I’d imagine it to flood the screen (which
is what happens i the USB cord is yanked)

Did you try replacing the USB cable as was suggested a couple of days
ago?

Eric

Yes, I did. No difference was made, the exact same results were seen.

2009/7/30 Eric B. [email protected]