[hpsdr] Penelope Firmware Upgrade: "Programming hardware cable not detected"

[Jeremy McDermond]

Jack --

I think you're missing the part where you load the USB Blaster into the FX2 chip.  See "Preparation" from the "Quick Start Guide:"

3. THE FIRST TIME YOU UPGRADE
The following procedure loads a USB Blaster capability into your Ozy. This makes it possible to update the firmware on your other HPSDR boards without purchasing additional programming hardware. Once the Ozy/USB Blaster firmware has successfully loaded, you should not have to repeat this step.
a. Connect just your Ozy board to the Atlas bus, connect the USB cable and power it on.
b. Run the file usbblaster.bat. This will load the code in the FX2 to make it appear to be an Altera USBblaster.
c. Windows will detect a new USB device. You need to install the drivers for it. Click here for driver installation instructions. What you need can be found in section 1.3.
d. The Found New Hardware Wizard will open.
Select Install from a list or specific location and browse to C:/altera/[installed version]/qprogrammer/drivers/usb-blaster. The Wizard will then install Altera USB-Blaster
Check that the drivers have installed correctly by looking in Start\Control Panel\System\Hardware\Device Manager\Universal Serial Bus controllers there should be an entry marked Altera USB-Blaster

I think the "first time you upgrade" is a little misleading.  I believe you need to run usbblaster.bat every time you intend to do programming.  It loads the necessary FX2 firmware.

On Aug 10, 2010, at 12:53 PM, Jack Speer wrote:

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> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
>  Penelope is in J6, Magister is in J5.  Nothing else is installed.
> 
>  When I power up the radio I do hear the USB device detected sound.   In Device Manager I see "LibUSB-Win32 Devices", and "OZY Host Assisted Firmware Load", the driver version for that is 0.1.12.1.
> 
>  Here is the sequence of events (I'm on Windows 7 32-bit:)
> 
> -Turn on radio
> -Run Command Prompt as Administrator
> -Run Program-Penelope-EPCS4.bat
> -Hear several USB insert/remove sounds, various message scroll by in the command prompt (all look ok but I can send if needed.)
> -Windows pops up the Found New Hardware window.  I ignore it at this point (correct?)
> -Batch file asks what version of Quartus, I answer 8, which is Quartus 10.0.
> -Batch file asks what version of Penelope, I answer B, Penelope_v1.2
> -Within a second or two receive error message in red type "Error: Programming hardware cable not detected"
> 
> 
> 73,
> 
> Jack N1BIC
> 
> 
> At 10:52 AM 8/6/2010, Bill Tracey wrote:
>> Jack,
>> 
>> Can you describe your setup a bit more - what cards in what slots?  If it's saying it can't find the programming cable it sounds like it's not finding Ozy/Magister posing as a USB blaster.  When you plug in/power up Ozy/Magister do you hear the windows sound indicating it found a new usb device?   If you look in device manager, do you find Ozy/Magister as a USB device?  What drivers does it show for it?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Bill
>> 
>> At 09:08 AM 8/6/2010, Jack Speer wrote:
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>>> 
>>>  Good, glad to know that's the right one.
>>> 
>>>  Does anyone have any ideas on the error message?  Penelope is dead in the water until I can figure out what's causing the error.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 73,
>>> 
>>> Jack, N1BIC
>> 
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Xenotropic Systems
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