hi LRK, Eric, and other USRP users: thank you for your answer. unfortunately i was not able to solve my problem :(
On Friday 20 January 2006 22.14, you wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 04:56:37PM +0100, Pacho V wrote: > > i'm a new user of the USRP and have encountered the following problem. > > when trying to run 'test_usrp_standard_tx' i get the following messages: > > > > usrp: failed to find usrp[0] > > die: lt-test_usrp_standard_tx: usrp_standard_tx::make > > > > i'm using a quite recent version of mandriva, i installed python and > > wxpython using the package manager available from the distribution. all > > the other needed packages (gnuradio-core, etc) were installed in one > > subdirectory of my home directory. to do that i used > > > > ./configure --prefix=$HOME/gnu-radio --enable-maintainer-mode > > > > the installation went more or less alright. when doing 'make check ' i > > got the message that Numeric couldn't be loaded. i decided to ignore this > > message since typing 'import Numeric' inside python worked fine. > > > > the usb connexion seems to work smoothly: > > > > Jan 20 04:29:41 localhost kernel: usb 3-2: new high speed USB > > device using > > ehci_hcd and address 73 > > > > can anyone suggest how to identify the problem? thank you very much for > > your answers. > > usrp[0] not found is usually a permission problem. I have system running > Mandrake 10.1 and remember having to find where the device actually is > and either change permission or add my user to /etc/group. could you give more details on this? i'm configured as follows: (i'm using mandriva 2006) uid=500(renato) gid=500(renato) groups=4(adm),10(wheel),43(usb),500(renato) moreover, i noticed the directory /proc/bus/usb/ is empty and it has the following permissions: dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan 25 03:51 usb/ another thing is that usbview (that i installed) doesn't work because it tries to read the file '/proc/bus/usb/devices' which does not exist! > > The '--enable-maintainer-mode' is not supposed to be required now. i decided to cvs-rebuild everything from scratch and install everything in the default locations (as root via 'su -m'). this time i omitted --enable-maintainer-mode > > The 'make check' problems are various but usually some environment > variable is set wrong or you have an old installed library that is > found by the scripts before the new one. this time 'make check' did not produce any errors. however, i still got the same problem, i.e. failed to find usrp[0]. someone suggested me to use 'strace' to see what's going on with 'test_usrp_standard_tx'. the result was the following (follow link): http://cui.unige.ch/~villan/logs/usrp-tx-test.log there are many 'No such file or directory' messages. i also tried a python example (usrp_oscope.py) and obtained the same error. here is the log: http://cui.unige.ch/~villan/logs/usrp-tx-test.log the following env. variable is set: PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages:/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages > > > Good luck. (not sent to the list) i'm getting nuts... does someone know what's wrong? thank you very much for your answers. _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
