Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Unable to build gr-wxgui on Mac OS X 10.6.1

2010-07-08 Thread Bruhtesfa Ebrahim
Hi Michael, Yes, I came up with this post: (http://www.mail-archive.com/macports-us...@lists.macosforge.org/msg19898.html), where installing mesa is suggested before installing wxWidgets. It is not listed in the dependencies though. That did the trick and I now installed gnuradio including

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] UHD Announcement - July 6th 2010

2010-07-08 Thread Zohair
Dear Josh, I have successfully installed the UHD branch from jblum.git repo and have tried out using the MIMO sources available. I have a few points to raise here regarding this release and block: 1- I am using a PC with four Ethernet ports. I burned the firmware and the fpga images created on

[Discuss-gnuradio] what is latest stable release?

2010-07-08 Thread Don Ward
It has been a while since gnuradio-3.3.0 was sent out as a release candidate, but the Download page on the wiki still points to gnuradio-3.2.2. Is there a reason not to use 3.3.0 or is the wiki just out of date? -- Don W. ___ Discuss-gnuradio

RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] UHD Announcement - July 6th 2010

2010-07-08 Thread Per Zetterberg
If I use the UHD driver directly (i.e. not using gnuradio framework) should I call mimo_usrp::make with argument addr=192.168.10.11 192.168.20.11 192.168.30.11 192.168.40.11, addr=192.168.10.11 192.168.20.11 192.168.30.11 192.168.40.11 to achieve the same or how should the string be formatted

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] UHD Announcement - July 6th 2010

2010-07-08 Thread Zohair
Regarding my post below, I have traced back the error and came to a result that the error is occurring in device.cpp file. This line in the catch block throws an error: device::sptr dev = maker(dev_addr); I beleive there is something wrong in : Arg: addr=192.168.10.11 192.168.20.11

[Discuss-gnuradio] idea under GRC

2010-07-08 Thread fangming he
Hi, Josh,Could you distribute some documents about how to implementing the function of generating code in GRC? How to add new graphic signal processing block in GRC?I hope to get to know some ideas on designing GRC, such as why do you extract five basic primitives in XML: block, parameter,

[Discuss-gnuradio] question to gmsk.py (modulation)

2010-07-08 Thread Thilo Mönicke
Hi all, I'am doing some stuff with gmsk and so I had a look to gmsk.py (gnuradio-core/src/lib/python/gnuradio/blks2impl/gmsk.py). In the modulation part of the file, the incomming stream is nrz coded, gaussian filtered and frequency modulated... so far so good. But the gaussian taps for the

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Help required tunnel.py

2010-07-08 Thread Tuan Ta
Juan, Thanks a lot for your response. I tried stopping at the ifconfig stage and wait for both PCs to be ready before hitting enter. But all I saw was TX and no RX. Do you have any idea where the problem might be? Tuan On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Juan Quiroz asd...@yahoo.com wrote: I have

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Help required tunnel.py

2010-07-08 Thread chuck lorres
Hi, I have successfully run digital folders tunnel.py. However, I am not receiving anything when i run the ofdm folder tunnel.py. Whereas the benchmark_ofdm_tx+rx.py is running perfectly. I have varied almost all the available parameters but to no avail. Please help me out. Thanks in advance.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Help required tunnel.py

2010-07-08 Thread Tuan Ta
That's pretty much the same settings that I have. Can you clarify a bit more: - How far apart are your boards? - What options did you use to run tunnel, benchmark_ofdm_*, benchmark_*. - When you run benchmark_*, did you get a lot of packet drops at the end of transmission (about 15%)? Thanks a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Unable to build gr-wxgui on Mac OS X 10.6.1

2010-07-08 Thread Michael Dickens
Hi Bruh - Glad to hear you're getting Wx to work for you. We're working on getting the Qt GUI working as well. I know that the state of Wx on MacPorts is confusing right now -- to me as well. If I were you, now that you've got it working, I'd leave my MacPorts install alone until the Wx

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Gigabit Ethernet cards

2010-07-08 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, July 02, 2010 04:40:42 pm Marcus D. Leech wrote: I suspect that my GiGE NIC may be dropping packets. It's an RTL8168d-type chip, according to dmesg. Are there known-to-be-good-with-GnuRadio NICs for PCI with low-profile brackets out there? This is for a 2U server platform.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Gigabit Ethernet cards

2010-07-08 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 07/08/2010 11:50 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: Since you said PCI, I'm assuming this isn't a PCI Express box we're talking about here, since that changes everything. A single lane PCI-e slot is capable of 250MB/s throughput, if the chipset can keep up. Typical server GigE cards for PCI-e can

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Gigabit Ethernet cards

2010-07-08 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, July 08, 2010 12:01:53 pm Marcus D. Leech wrote: I have a PCIe x16 slot on the mobo, it's a GigaByte GA-880GM-UD2H, so I guess what I really need is a PCIe GiGE card. Broadcom is the biggest player in this market; eBay item # 150455393659 is one such example and only needs a x1

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Help required tunnel.py

2010-07-08 Thread Tuan Ta
I finally found a setting that actually works. So the real problem I think lies in the bit rate. I had no communication whatsoever in low bit rate (~250k). I started to have unreliable comm. at 500k and at 1Mbps I got no packet drops for tunnel.py. However, even at 1Mbps I still got about 5% drops

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] UHD Announcement - July 6th 2010

2010-07-08 Thread Josh Blum
Zohair, 1- I am using a PC with four Ethernet ports. I burned the firmware and the fpga images created on 6-7-2010. Also, I tried assigning IP addresses from the same subnetwork: 192.168.10.X/24. However, Only a single USRP2 is discovered at a time while others are unreachable. (USRP2s IPs are

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] UHD Announcement - July 6th 2010

2010-07-08 Thread Josh Blum
The make takes a device_addr_t which means you may pass in the formatted string or a device_addr_t dictionary object: mimo_usrp::make(addr=192.168.10.11 192.168.20.11) or device_addr_t dev_addr; dev_addr[addr] = 192.168.10.11 192.168.20.11 mimo_usrp::make(dev_addr); -Josh On 07/08/2010

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP2 and Data Rate

2010-07-08 Thread Garrett Wenger
I went ahead and locked the USRP2 to my signal analyzer's reference clock and that seemed to knock the error down to about 11-14%, which is obviously much improved. However, I then looked at the signal on an oscilloscope and it looks like the USRP2 is sending out short bursts of data instead of a

[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Help required tunnel.py

2010-07-08 Thread chuck lorres
Thanks for your reply.Well I am trying to run the tunnel.py in ofdm folder. However there is no bit rate option in it.If you have been able to successfully run it, please send me the parameters that you changed?I have tried all day to run it but to no avail.Not even a single packet is

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Re: Help required tunnel.py

2010-07-08 Thread Tuan Ta
Unfortunately tunnel.py in the ofdm folder doesn't work for me either. Since you had benchmark_ofdm_* running, I would use the same settings for tunnel. I don't even have benchmark_ofdm_* going at any setting. I'm trying to get a hold of a spectrum analyzer. Hopefully it would help to clear things

[Discuss-gnuradio] Patch to increasy dynamic range of usrp2 by adding shift_iq setting

2010-07-08 Thread Martin DvH
Hi All, I created a patch which adds a shift_iq setting to the usrp2. This can shift the output of dsp_core_rx by 0 to 3 bits. (= Multiply by 1, 2, 4 or 8) It does proper rounding and clipping. With the shift_iq setting in combination with the already existing scale_iq you can optimize the