ANAN-7000DLE MkII Ethernet comms failure
Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2019 6:48 am
Hi
My ANAN-7000DLE MkII S/N 7000DLEMKII-011 failed recently, while receiving a
broadcast station. The failure started with a short crackling noise and then
reception stopped. After this, attempts at restarting mostly failed since the
Transceiver would not respond to discovery. There were just a couple of
successful discoveries but reception would not start. Then the Transceiver
became completely unresponsive to discovery.
To eliminate the possibility of my desktop computer failure, I tried using my
laptop with a clean install of the O/S (Linux) but again I had little success.
I also tried a new Ethernet cable with no luck. I also tried using my desktop
again, with a clean reinstall of the O/S but again no results.
I then tried to reload the firmware using HPSDRBootloader V2 and Protocol 2
.rbf file and somewhat surprisingly this went well. The firmware was reloaded
successfully and the Bootloader could also read and write a static IP address.
So it appears that with the bootloader switch ON the rig responds correctly. I
then switched OFF the bootloader switch and power cycled, before running the
HPSDRProgrammer V2. But the Programmer failed to discover the board, so
whatever the failure is, it manifests in the normal operating conditions.
Another thing I have noticed is that the Ethernet connection takes several
seconds longer to establish in normal operating mode (bootloader switched OFF)
compared to bootloader mode. And pinging the static IP address of the
Transceiver also fails (ping reports Destination Host Unreachable).
Are there any indicators (LED's) in the 7000DLE that might indicate a fault
condition? They might help me to recover the transceiver, if this is not a
permanent hardware failure.
I have not received a response yet from Apache-labs support so I would be
grateful for any assistance here.
My thanks in advance.
My ANAN-7000DLE MkII S/N 7000DLEMKII-011 failed recently, while receiving a
broadcast station. The failure started with a short crackling noise and then
reception stopped. After this, attempts at restarting mostly failed since the
Transceiver would not respond to discovery. There were just a couple of
successful discoveries but reception would not start. Then the Transceiver
became completely unresponsive to discovery.
To eliminate the possibility of my desktop computer failure, I tried using my
laptop with a clean install of the O/S (Linux) but again I had little success.
I also tried a new Ethernet cable with no luck. I also tried using my desktop
again, with a clean reinstall of the O/S but again no results.
I then tried to reload the firmware using HPSDRBootloader V2 and Protocol 2
.rbf file and somewhat surprisingly this went well. The firmware was reloaded
successfully and the Bootloader could also read and write a static IP address.
So it appears that with the bootloader switch ON the rig responds correctly. I
then switched OFF the bootloader switch and power cycled, before running the
HPSDRProgrammer V2. But the Programmer failed to discover the board, so
whatever the failure is, it manifests in the normal operating conditions.
Another thing I have noticed is that the Ethernet connection takes several
seconds longer to establish in normal operating mode (bootloader switched OFF)
compared to bootloader mode. And pinging the static IP address of the
Transceiver also fails (ping reports Destination Host Unreachable).
Are there any indicators (LED's) in the 7000DLE that might indicate a fault
condition? They might help me to recover the transceiver, if this is not a
permanent hardware failure.
I have not received a response yet from Apache-labs support so I would be
grateful for any assistance here.
My thanks in advance.