I’m having issues with the install of LimeSDR-USB related software on both Windows 7 and Linux. I will limit this to the Windows issues. I installed PothosSDR. I proceeded to the LimeSDR Quick Test but could not get as far as loading the Self_test.ini file. I would get an warning window saying “Failed to load file: Write(64bytes)failed”. Just for fun, I did a save .ini and tried to read that one back in and got the same error. As such I don’t think there is anything corrupted in the ini file itself and in looking at it nothing looks out of order. Within LimeSuite I go to Module Device Info and I see Firmware 3, Hardware 4, Protocol 1, Gateware 0 and Gatware rev 0. From reading other post it appears that these last two should not read zero. I ran the same test on my Linux machine and it reported Gateware is 2 and the Gateware Rev is 6. I also ran the all the Quick Tests successfully on Linux.
On Win7 I went on to Pothos and instantiated a source and spectrogram block. When running I would get a gateware version mismatch error (expecting 2 and 6 and getting 0 and 0). It would end with SDRBlock call setupDevice threw:Exception:ResetChip() failed.
I could not get gqrx or CubicSDR to work either but won’t go into more detail here unless it is of use to someone.
On my Linux machine I went to LimeSuite and ran the Module Programming Automatic it appeared to run ok and all the revisions levels stayed the same (F3,H4,P1,G2,GR6),. Back on windows and it continues to show the gateware’s at 0.
If anyone can give me some next step, I would appreciate it. I will create a second post with my Linux problems. This is a brand new v1.4 board shipped two days ago.