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

Berndt Josef Wulf wulf at ping.net.au
Fri Mar 11 05:09:33 PST 2011 

G'day Chris,

have you tried with a later version of PowerSDR? I've been successful in using 
PowerSDR 1.16.3 and PowerSDR 1.19.3 and Metis V1.1

cheerio Berndt
 
On 11/03/11 Chris Smith wrote:
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> 
> Hi John
> 
> I haven't downloaded WireShark yet but in answer to your question: there is 
only one NIC on the PC and the port on the switch that this connects to shows 
a 10Base1000 connection.
> 
> A clarification: D20 LED(9) only comes on when Metis responds to a discovery 
packet from either HPSDRProgrammer or PowerSDR otherwise it remains OFF after 
a power cycle.
> 
> I'm off to the shack again to run WireShark though I feel that the behaviour 
of D20 indicates that PowerSDR and Metis are talking to each other at least in 
the discovery phase. It appears to be after that that things go wrong.
> 
> Cheers & 73
> 
> Chris G4NUX
> 
> 
> On 11 Mar 2011, at 12:44, John Melton wrote:
> 
> > Hi Chris,
> > 
> > everything sounds OK with Metis and DHCP and HPSDRProgrammer.
> > 
> > I do not use PowerSDR so cannot comment on it, but you could try running
> > WireShark to capture the packets. You should see PowerSDR send a
> > discovery packet (to address 255.255.255.255) and then see a response
> > from Metis.  As HPSDRProgrammer is working you could also watch this
> > with WireShark as well.
> > 
> > Do you have more than 1 network interface on the PC?
> > 
> > -- John g0orx/n6lyt
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, 2011-03-11 at 12:07 +0000, Chris Smith wrote:
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> >> 
> >> 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:
> >> 
> >>> ***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****
> >>> 
> >>> 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:
> >>> 
> >>>> ***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****
> >>>> 
> >>>> 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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