Solved it:

Installed an old version, GnuRadio 3.1.1, I had on disk and the rev 4.3
USRP1s seem to work fine now on that.

Is this a known/common issue?


On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Phillip Walsh <[email protected]>wrote:

> I am absolutely stumped, any help with this would again be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Last week I had a question trying to get USRP2 to work in my MAC testbed.
> I decided not to worry about that for the time being and borrowed 2 USRP1s
> from another research group to finish a project.  However, I am not unable
> to get benchmark_tx/rx.py or obviously tunnel.py to work with these USRPs as
> I have hundreds of times before with the other USRPs.
>
> My first 2 USRP1 are Rev 4.5.
> I have 4 RFX2400 Rev 30, tested all successfully on 4.5.
> USRP1s in question are Rev 4.3.
> GNU Radio 3.3.2
>
> The Rev 4.3 transmits a waveform that appears on rev 4.5 FFT as a good gmsk
> (tried dbpsk also) signal.  I set the TX amplitude to 5000 and RX gain to
> 30, but have tried many many values.  The rev 4.3 will not successfully
> decode the rev 4.5 signal either.
>
> Literally when I swap the USRPs out with the exact same set up, it works
> with rev 4.5 boxes.  I have tested the usrp 4.3s including FFT, siggen, etc.
> and everything else seems fine other than packet decode and correct
> transmitting.  I also tried RFX900's between those two with no avail.
>
> I've tried all the parameters I could think.  Do I need to use a specific
> older GR revision?  Special decimation, interpolation, samples/symbol, etc?
>
> As a side note: the simple reliable MAC I have implemented which includes
> RTS/CTS (w/ threshold), ACK, multi-hop, multiframe transmit is working great
> (so far).  I look forward to publishing it for the community when I finish
> this project.
>
> Regards,
>
> Phil Walsh
> Auburn University
>
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