Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Netgear GA311 (Realtek 8169) and USRP 2

[Felipe Gil Castiñeira]

Hi Brett,

I had the same (bad) experience with a RTL-8169 card and USRP2:
approximately 75% of the time "find_usrps" can not detect the USRP2 (the
same for usrp2_fft.py).

I can not confirm the problem (just now I don't have another card with a
different chipset), but I suspect it is related to the RTL-8169 device.

Best,
    Felipe.

Brett L. Trotter wrote:
> The purpose of this email is to ask if anyone (out of the relatively few
> USRP2 users) had happened to bump into this card and had similar
> difficulty as well as to determine if this is repeatable on other
> systems and thus warn others away from the headache I've encountered.
>
> I've been successful with the Attansic Technology Corp. L1 on an AMD
> board I have, but a Netgear GA311 produces odd results. find_usrps
> works, but usrp2_siggen fails to identify the daughterboard. I believe
> the GA311 is at fault. I was originally on Fedora Core 7 but upgraded to
> 10 after the initial problems.
>
> Please let me know if you have any experience with this card in general,
> or even better, with this card and a USRP2. I'm anxious to resolve the
> issue (or return the card).
>
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> -Brett
>