Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] usrp1 suddenly stops communicating

[Thomas Tsou]

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Patrik Tast <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> The free USRP1 has suddenly decided to stop communicating. We suspect (from
> the output)
> that it might be an USB problem?

Very likely.

> It runs for about 30 - 60 secs and then freezes. The led on the motherboard
> is still blinking though.
> We've tried to plug into other USB ports and using different cables but the
> result is always the same.

Is the led blinking slow - signifying loaded firmware - or fast like
at power up? Do any notable USB messages show up in the dmesg output?
Have you tried the usrp on another machine?

> F12 is used with all the latest updates.
>
> Screenshots when it halts @
> http://www.poes-weather.com/~patrik/usrp/usb-fail/
> Notice the serialnumber is all zeros, perhaps cos it is a preversion?

What is the actual serial number marked on the board?

  Thomas