Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Is WUBI (Lucid) a viable environment for GNU-Radio (3.2.2) ?

[Eric Blossom]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 08:24:53PM +1200, John Shields wrote:
> I recently purchased a USRP and have a fresh install of WUBI (HP Pavillion 
> DV5 , Windows Home Vista) and used 
> gnuradio.org/redmine/wiki/gnuradio/UbuntuInstall to install things. 
> 
> I passed 'make check' correctly
> 
> I have my username in the group usrp
> 
> address@hidden:~/gnuradio$ ls -lR /dev/bus/usb | grep usrp
> crw-rw---- 1 root usrp 189, 132 2010-09-21 11:14 005
> 
> when I execute ./usrp_benchmark_usb.py I get:
> 
> 
> Testing 2MB/sec... gr_vmcircbuf_createfilemapping: createfilemapping is not 
> available
> /home/john/.gnuradio/prefs/gr_vmcircbuf_default_factory: Permission denied
> uUuOuUuOuUuOuUuOuUuOuUuOuUuOuUuOuUuOuUuOuUuOuOuUuOuUuOuUuOuUuOuUuOuUuOuU^Z
> 
> 
> and it hangs so I kill it
> 
> [1]+  Stopped                 ./usrp_benchmark_usb.py
> 
> I cannot repeat this operation as I get
> 
> Testing 2MB/sec... usrp_open_interface:usb_set_alt_interface: failed
> could not set alt intf 0/0: Connection timed out
> open_nth_cmd_interface: open_cmd_interface failed
> usrp: failed to load firmware /usr/share/usrp/rev4/std.ihx.
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./usrp_benchmark_usb.py", line 106, in <module>
>     main () 
> 
>           snip.........

Just to rule out a flakey cable, can you try using a different USB 2 cable?

Eric