Why I Cannot Ping My USRP2 With 192.168.10.2
Once I get my unit of USRP2, then I connect my WBX daughter board onto the
main board. After that, connect the Gigabit Ethernet port of the USRP2 to
the Gi0/1 of my Catalyst 2960, and then power on the USRP2. From the front
panel of USRP2, all six LEDs will flash on for a while and then only LED
with label D and F keep on, all the rest turn off. According to the
official configuration manual as stated below,
http://files.ettus.com/uhd_docs/manual/html/usrp2.html
that means my USRP2 is running well now. Again, according to the manual,
I suppose to get ping reply from the USRP2 with default IP 192.168.10.2,
however, I can't get it. I think I should did something wrong to the USRP2,
and I need something to figure out the problem. Well, according to the
manual again, I can use an USB to serial connector to monitor the boot
message of the USRP2. By simply connecting RX and GND pins of my USB-Serial
connector to the serial port (TX and GND) of USRP2 (located at the
rear side of the mainboard), then I use SecureCRT to connect onto it with
baudrate 230400, 8-N-1. Now, turn it on again, and I get following message,
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Tx dbid: 0x52
No daugherboard code for dbid = 0x52
Rx dbid: 0x53
No daugherboard code for dbid = 0x53
TxRx-NEWETH
00:50:C2:85:3B:15
ethernet flow control: NONE
Speed set to 1000
eth link changed: speed = 1000
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Then everything stop here. It seems my WBX daughter board can't be detected
also. So, it might be something wrong to my firmware here. After some
searching works, I get some firmwares here,
http://code.ettus.com/redmine/ettus/projects/public/wiki/U2binaries
So, I suspect my current firmwares do not support the WBX daughter board.
Well, I then download u2_rev3-20100603.bin as FPGA image and
txrx_wbx_raw_eth_20100608.bin as firmware image. On the other hand, according
to the manual, my USRP2 will detect for FPGA and firmware images from SD
card in the boot process. In other words, wihtout the SD card, my USRP2 will
not boot at all. Now, I need to find a way to burn those 2 new images into
the SD card. I found a good reference here,
http://www.csun.edu/~skatz/katzpage/sdr_project/sdr/loading_sd_card_image.pdf
So, I need to get a python file with the name of usrp2_card_burner_gui.py.
By running the python file, I need to specify 3 things: FPGA image, firmware
image, and SD card device. I was using my Sony Vaio which has built-in SD slot.
However, since I was running my linux environment in VMware, I can't access
to my built-in SD slot. So, I tried with USB based SD card reader instead.
How to determine which device belong to SD card? Of course, you can use
sg_scan or sg_map to do the job, but why waste time? From the UI of
usrp2_card_burner_gui.py you can see a list of devices that detected
automatically. Then, simply plug in the SD card reader and click
"Rescan for Devices" button, the new item generated in the list should be the
SD card device. In my case, it is "sdb". To make thing safer, I tried
"cat /dev/sdb", and I get some related words about "ettus" or "usrp". So,
after specifying the FPGA image and firmware image, select the newly detected SD
card device as writing device, and click "Burn SD Card". After the process done,
I get a proper report prompted out. Now, I put the SD card into the USRP2 again,
and power it on, from serial port terminal, I get,
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Tx dbid: 0x52
Rx dbid: 0x53
TxRx-NEWETH
00:50:C2:85:3B:15
ethernet flow control: NONE
Speed set to 1000
eth link changed: speed = 1000
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Well, my WBX card is finally detected. However, when I tried to ping it again
with its default IP's 192.168.10.2, I still get no reply. From my 2960 switch,
I tried with "show mac-address-table", but Gi0/1 was not listed with USRP2's
MAC address (00:50:C2:85:3B:15). So, the USRP2 might not running IP stack at
all now. After some searching works, it seems I can use 2 tools of GNUradio
to find the USRP2 device. Let's install GNUradio,
# apt-get install gnuradio
.........
.........
# dpkg -l | grep gnuradio
......... 3.2.2
......... 3.2.2
Well, the installed version of GNUradio is 3.2.2. Let's assume the default
IP of USRP2 as 192.168.10.2, so, I set my ethernet interface as 192.168.10.1.
Then I run "find_usrps" and waiting for surprise. Again, I was still out of
luck, with the return message of,
eth0: SIOCGIFINDEX: No such device
No USRP2 found.
Wait, my ethernet interface is eth2, not eth0. I can change the scanning
interface of find_usrps with -e option. So, I run "find_usrps -e eth2" again.
Wow, I get this,
00:50:c2:85:3b:15 hw_rev = 0x0400
Then, I tried again with "usrp2_fft.py -e eth2", it work well also. Now, I
understand what's the meaning of "raw ethernet" as stated in the firmware
download page before. Let's check the ethernet packets with wireshark.
"find_usrps" completed with 2 packets interaction. The host send a broadcast
packet to the network as shown below,
0000 ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 0c 29 f6 c9 f4 be ef 00 00 ........ ).......
0010 00 00 00 00 f8 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff 01 04 00 00 ........ ........
0020 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ ........
0030 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ ........
and the USRP2 reply the host with packet as shown below,
0000 00 0c 29 f6 c9 f4 00 50 c2 85 3b 15 be ef 00 00 ..)....P ..;.....
0010 00 00 00 00 f8 00 00 00 c6 01 95 19 81 2c 00 00 ........ .....,..
0020 00 50 c2 85 3b 15 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .P..;... ........
0030 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ ........
0040 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ ........
Well, ettus has redefine the ethernet type to "beef" instead of common type
such as "0800" for UDP. On the other hand, for "usrp2_fft.py -e eth2",
based on the result of packet analysis, it needs some interaction of
"configuration" phase to the USRP2, as show below,
(I only show the first 2 interaction steps of USRP2 configuration by host)
0000 00 50 c2 85 3b 15 00 0c 29 f6 c9 f4 be ef 00 00 .P..;... ).......
0010 00 00 00 00 f8 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff 07 04 00 00 ........ ........
0020 00 04 00 00 ....
0000 00 0c 29 f6 c9 f4 00 50 c2 85 3b 15 be ef 00 00 ..)....P ..;.....
0010 00 00 00 00 f8 00 00 00 e7 f1 e1 ad 87 04 00 01 ........ ........
0020 00 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ ........
0030 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ ........
0040 00 00 00 00 ....
0000 00 50 c2 85 3b 15 00 0c 29 f6 c9 f4 be ef 00 00 .P..;... ).......
0010 00 00 00 00 f8 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff 09 04 01 00 ........ ........
0020 00 04 00 00 ....
0000 00 0c 29 f6 c9 f4 00 50 c2 85 3b 15 be ef 00 00 ..)....P ..;.....
0010 00 00 00 00 f8 00 00 00 e8 07 5d b3 89 3c 01 01 ........ ..]..<..
0020 00 00 00 52 00 00 41 90 ab 00 00 00 00 08 32 15 ...R..A. ......2.
0030 60 00 00 00 00 00 0c 80 00 0c 00 00 00 00 00 53 `....... .......S
0040 00 00 41 90 ab 00 00 00 00 08 32 15 60 00 00 00 ..A..... ..2.`...
0050 00 00 0f c0 00 40 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 .....@.. ........
After the "configuration" phase, the USRP will keep sending data, I believe
it is "measurement data" to the host continuously. I show one sample packet
here.
0000 00 0c 29 f6 c9 f4 00 50 c2 85 3b 15 be ef 00 00 ..)....P ..;.....
0010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ee 31 51 2e 00 00 00 00 ........ .1Q.....
0020 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ ........
0030 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ ........
0040 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 01 00 01 00 00 00 00 ........ ........
0050 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 02 00 00 ff ff 00 02 ........ ........
0060 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 02 00 00 00 01 ff fe 00 00 ........ ........
0070 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ ........
0080 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 ff ff 00 00 00 03 ........ ........
0090 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 ........ ........
00a0 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 01 ff fe 00 00 00 00 ........ ........
00b0 00 01 00 00 ff ff 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ ........
00c0 ff fd 00 00 00 00 ff ff 00 01 ff fe 00 00 00 00 ........ ........
00d0 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 ........ ........
00e0 00 00 00 01 ff ff 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ ........
00f0 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 ........ ........
0100 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 ........ ........
0110 ff ff ff ff 00 00 ff fd 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ ........
0120 00 01 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ ........
0130 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 ........ ........
0140 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 ........ ........
0150 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 ........ ........
0160 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ ........
0170 00 00 00 01 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 ........ ........
0180 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff ff ........ ........
0190 00 01 00 00 ff ff 00 00 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ ........
01a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff ff ........ ........
01b0 00 00 00 00 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ ........
01c0 00 00 00 00 00 01 ff ff 00 00 00 00 ff ff 00 00 ........ ........
01d0 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 01 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ ........
01e0 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ ........
01f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff fd 00 00 ff ff 00 01 00 01 ........ ........
0200 ff ff 00 00 00 00 ff ff 00 00 ff ff 00 01 ff ff ........ ........
0210 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ ........
0220 00 00 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ ........
0230 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ ........
0240 ff ff 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ ........
0250 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff ........ ........
0260 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff ff ........ ........
0270 00 00 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff ff ........ ........
0280 00 00 00 00 00 01 ff fe 00 01 ff fe ff ff ff ff ........ ........
0290 00 00 ff ff 00 00 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 ........ ........
02a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff ff ........ ........
02b0 00 00 ff fe 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 ........ ........
02c0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 ........ ........
02d0 ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff ........ ........
02e0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ ........
02f0 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 ........ ........
0300 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff ff 00 00 00 00 ........ ........
0310 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ ........
0320 00 00 ff ff 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 02 00 02 00 00 ........ ........
0330 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 ff fe ........ ........
0340 ff ff ff fe ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 ........ ........
0350 00 00 00 00 ff ff 00 00 00 00 ff fe 00 00 00 00 ........ ........
0360 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff fe ........ ........
0370 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 ff ff 00 00 ........ ........
0380 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ ........
0390 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 ........ ........
03a0 00 00 ff fe ff ff 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ ........
03b0 ff ff ff fe ff ff 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ ........
03c0 00 00 ff ff 00 00 ff ff 00 02 00 01 00 00 00 01 ........ ........
03d0 00 01 00 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 ff ff ff ff 00 00 ........ ........
03e0 00 00 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 01 ........ ........
03f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff fe ff ff ff fe ff ff ........ ........
0400 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 01 ff fe 00 00 00 00 00 01 ........ ........
0410 00 01 00 01 00 00 00 00 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ ........
0420 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ ........
0430 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ ........
0440 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 ff ff ff ff 00 00 ff fe ........ ........
0450 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 01 ........ ........
0460 00 00 ff ff 00 00 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ ........
0470 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff ff 00 00 00 01 ........ ........
0480 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 ff ff 00 01 00 02 ........ ........
0490 ff fe 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ ........
04a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 ........ ........
04b0 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff ff ........ ........
04c0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff ff ........ ........
04d0 00 00 ff fe 00 00 00 01 ff ff 00 03 ff ff ff fe ........ ........
04e0 00 00 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff fe 00 00 ........ ........
04f0 00 00 ff ff 00 00 ff ff 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff ........ ........
0500 00 00 ff fd 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff fe 00 02 ff fe ........ ........
0510 00 01 00 00 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ ........
0520 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff ff 00 01 00 00 00 01 ........ ........
0530 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 03 ........ ........
0540 00 00 00 01 ff ff 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ ........
0550 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ ........
0560 00 00 ff fe 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff fe ........ ........
0570 00 00 ff ff 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ ........
0580 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff ff 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 02 ........ ........
0590 ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 01 ........ ........
05a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff ff ........ ........
05b0 00 00 ff ff 00 00 00 00 ff ff 00 00 ff fe ff ff ........ ........
05c0 00 01 ff ff ff ff ff fe 00 02 ff ff 00 00 00 00 ........ ........
05d0 00 00 00 02 00 01 00 03 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 ........ ........
05e0 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
So, it seems I definitely cannot ping my USRP2 with its default IP of
192.168.10.2. It runs in raw ethernet. Then how I can ping it? I emailed
to ettus support. The answer is simple, I need to update my USRP2's FPGA and
firmware images into UHD version, which I can get it from,
http://files.ettus.com/binaries/uhd_stable/latest_release/
From the archive, I can see usrp2_fpga.bin and usrp2_fw.bin. So, I need to
update my SD card again. Besides, from the host side, I need to update the
driver and GNUradio also. Still got no time to work on it, but will do it
soon and update to this blog again.
pdf version:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/112331187/Why-I-Cannot-Ping-My-USRP2-With-192-168-10-2
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