[hpsdr] Metis - what am I doing wrong?!

[Chris Smith]

Hmmm...

Having shaken off Montezuma, at least to the extent that I feel safe disappearing down the garden to my shack, I installed Metis and a new Netgear GS105 5 port gigabit switch. Installation is as per Figure 2 on page 5 of Metis user manual.

On power up of the hardware Metis appears to get an IP address from my DHCP server and the LEDs settle down to:

14	Slow flash
15	Occasional/random flash
16	-
17	Occasional/random flash
22	-
12	-
11	ON
13	-
21	-
20	ON
19	-
18	-
23	2Hz flash (heart-beat?)

John's HPSDRProgrammer is able to discover Metis and shows me a MAC address and the IP address supplied by my DHCP server - IP is in the correct range.

So far so good. I ran PowerSDR (KD5TFD 2Feb2011b) and selected Connection Type Metis (Ethernet) in Setup and Apply but the Metis Address IP & MAC addresses both remain steadfastly at all zeros.

I dismissed PowerSDR and cycled power on the hardware (later I even restarted WinXP) but on starting up PowerSDR again the Metis Address still shows all zeros and trying to Start PowerSDR gets me, after a several second delay, a message to the effect that HPSDR hardware was not detected and was it connected and powered on? PowerSDR also shows all the installed boards as having version zero installed.

Wondering if I needed Metis_V1.1 I successfully ran HPSDRProgrammer and installed V1.1 though I haven't been able to verify that that is what is loaded on Metis.

I've read and re-read the Metis user manual until I can almost recite it verbatim but can't see what I might be doing wrong.

It appears that although HPSDRProgrammer can see Metis PowerSDR can't.

Help - please!

Cheers & 73

Chris G4NUX

On 11 Mar 2011, at 08:05, Chris Smith wrote:

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> Parcelforce were as good as their word and Metis arrived safely yesterday. Unfortunately I've been struck down with Montezuma's Revenge for the past couple of days so have be able to do nothing but look longingly at the unopened anti-static bag.  :-)
> 
> Cheers & 73
> 
> Chris G4NUX
> 
> On 10 Mar 2011, at 23:26, Paul Fletcher wrote:
> 
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>> Mine is awaiting payment of duty so it's in the UK somewhere.
>> 
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven Doyle" <steve_doyle at o2.co.uk>
>> To: <hpsdr at lists.openhpsdr.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 9:24 PM
>> Subject: Re: [hpsdr] Metis
>> 
>> 
>>> ***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Metis arrived safely today in Blighty.
>>> 
>>> After installing it, I then used HPSDRProgrammer to update to the latest firmware(Metis  V1.1) and then proceeded to update the firmware on Mercury to v6.4(Diversity) & Penelope to v1.3.
>>> 
>>> Everything worked first time :)
>>> 
>>> Many thanks to everyone involved.
>>> 
>>> 73s
>>> 
>>> Steve
>>> G1YLB
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message----- From: Chris Smith
>>> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 1:21 PM
>>> To: hpsdr at lists.openhpsdr.org
>>> Subject: Re: [hpsdr] Metis
>>> 
>>> ***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****
>>> 
>>> Ah-ha!  I've just paid the import VAT on Metis and Parcelforce are promising delivery tomorrow (Thur 10th Mar).  Not bad - payment was taken 26th Feb so 12 days from payment to delivery.
>>> 
>>> Many thanks TAPR and everyone involved.
>>> 
>>> Cheers & 73
>>> 
>>> Chris G4NUX


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