# N210 connects but unreachable, only orange light ON

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/n210-connects-but-unreachable-only-orange-light-on/203341>\
**Category:** GNU Radio\
**Created:** [February 18, 2011, 2:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/n210-connects-but-unreachable-only-orange-light-on/203341 "2011-02-18T02:52:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/0ea827/32.png) [@luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/luislavena)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2011, 2:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/n210-connects-but-unreachable-only-orange-light-on/203341/1 "2011-02-18T02:52:08Z")

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Hi,

The N210 we had was returning ping requests after we managed to burn the  
latest firmware and fpga images on to it from  
[http://www.ettus.com/downloads/uhd\_images/UHD-images-most-recent/](http://www.ettus.com/downloads/uhd_images/UHD-images-most-recent/). At  
that  
point the green light on the ethernet port on the N210 was ON and the  
orange  
light was blinking.

But now we see a solid orange light ON with no blinking and the green  
light  
is OFF. The ping requests are not being returned but the N210 stays  
connected to the PC. Is there anyway to reset the device? My colleague  
is  
not able to remember if he could have possibly burnt some  
incompatible/wrong  
firmware images as we have 2 N210s we’re trying to set up. Is there any  
way  
to revive our N210? These creatures entered our lab only a couple of  
days  
ago!

Thanks,  
Siva

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**Author:** ![Sivaramakrishnan\_B\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Sivaramakrishnan\_B\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Sivaramakrishnan_B_S)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2011, 3:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/n210-connects-but-unreachable-only-orange-light-on/203341/2 "2011-02-18T03:22:49Z")

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> But now we see a solid orange light ON with no blinking and the green light  
> is OFF. The ping requests are not being returned but the N210 stays  
> connected to the PC. Is there anyway to reset the device? My colleague is  
> not able to remember if he could have possibly burnt some incompatible/wrong  
> firmware images as we have 2 N210s we’re trying to set up. Is there any way  
> to revive our N210? These creatures entered our lab only a couple of days  
> ago!

Whoops, sounds like you might have written the fpga and firmware to  
the opposite locations.

As noted in the usrp-users list:  
[http://lists.ettus.com/pipermail/usrp-users\_lists.ettus.com/2011-February/000686.html](http://lists.ettus.com/pipermail/usrp-users_lists.ettus.com/2011-February/000686.html)

We have seen a few people inadvertently suffer from this mistake.

Good news is its fairly easy to get you fixed up. I will follow up  
with you offlist to get this corrected

For others updating their N210 firmware, please make sure to use the  
usrp\_n2xx\_net\_burner.py from January 28th or later

Thanks  
Jason

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**Author:** ![Sivaramakrishnan\_B\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Sivaramakrishnan\_B\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Sivaramakrishnan_B_S)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 5:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/n210-connects-but-unreachable-only-orange-light-on/203341/3 "2012-10-09T17:09:44Z")

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Hi,

This is the first time I work with USRP N210. I can’t ping it  
(Destination Host Unreachable).  
I see a solid orange light ON with no blinking and the green light  
is OFF on the port.  
The leds D & F are ON too.  
I haven’t burn any firmware image yet, so I don’t know what I have to  
do.  
Can anyone help me?

Regards  
Juan P.

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**Author:** ![Sivaramakrishnan\_B\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Sivaramakrishnan\_B\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Sivaramakrishnan_B_S)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 5:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/n210-connects-but-unreachable-only-orange-light-on/203341/4 "2015-12-03T05:09:31Z")

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Hi:

How did you solve this problem? Can anyone help me?

Regards  
Kerry
