FarSync TE1e

[janblaesi]

Hi there, it's me again! This will probably not classify as an issue, but probably you can help me: We are trying to get an Farsite FarSync TE1e PCI card working on our Buildroot system with odr-zmq2farsync, we have the farsync and hdlc kernel modules loaded, "hdlc0" is showing up in network devices but passing that name to odr-zmq2farsync shows "Cyclades card identified" and then "hdlc0: Wrong parameter" or something similar. Are we doing something wrong in calling the binary? Or is another driver for the card needed? Greetings, Jan

[mpbraendli]

@stanroehrich do you have some advice for this question?

[stanroehrich]

I Didn't installed since a while a TE1e but the you should be able to call sync0 to pass the card parameter. This using Farutil. The first thing to check is on this link before going further: https://www.farsite.com/custsupp/tsg/Linux_X21/TSG_FarSync_X21_T-Series_farutil_Linux.htm

You should then normally see on the interface list your eth0,1,... lo, and a sync0 interface

This old link give additional information too on the principle (but was old driver) https://wiki.opendigitalradio.org/Farsync_card

As a exemple the call on the mux should use raw output and the interface name (with an external 10Mhz clock feed to the farsync) raw://sync0?clocking=master&extsyncclock=10000000

Don't forget before to use the card with the mux to select the BNC connector (by moving the jumper on the card and to select BNC with farutil argument.

that's the setup you should have with the card then:

firmware id: 5 firmware vers: 1.00.02 Card Rev: 0.3A

Configuration for port 0 physical: E1 active alarms: LOS clock mode: Master datarate: 2048000 start slot: 0 structure: Unframed interface: BNC coding: HDB3 equalizer: Short Haul loop mode: None tx buff mode: 2 frame rx buff mode: 2 frame idle code: 0xFF ext sync clk: Enabled clk d.c. offset: False ext sync clk rate: 10000000 1PPS sync: Disabled 1PPS clk d.c. offset: False Stats: Receive Buffer Delay: 33 Framing Error Count: 0 Code Violation Count: 0 CRC Error Count: 0 Line Attenuation: Unknown protocol: Raw packet interface line mode: Transparent Buffer configuration: no of rx buffers: 8 size of rx buffers: 6144 no of tx buffers: 8 size of tx buffers: 6144

[mpbraendli]

No updates, please open the issue again if your issue is still unsolved.

[mspanc]

What version of ODB-DabMux supports passing extra parameters to the farsync output? I tried to add this and I have the following error

Jan 09 11:53:57 dab-int1-001 odr-dabmux[5701]: Welcome to ODR-DabMux 1.2.1, compiled at Mar  5 2017, 19:36:21
Jan 09 11:53:57 dab-int1-001 odr-dabmux[5701]: Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
Jan 09 11:53:57 dab-int1-001 odr-dabmux[5701]: Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada
Jan 09 11:53:57 dab-int1-001 odr-dabmux[5701]: (Communications Research Centre Canada) All rights reserved.
Jan 09 11:53:57 dab-int1-001 odr-dabmux[5701]: Copyright (C) 2016 Matthias P. Braendli
Jan 09 11:53:57 dab-int1-001 odr-dabmux[5701]: http://opendigitalradio.org
Jan 09 11:53:57 dab-int1-001 odr-dabmux[5701]: Input URLs supported:
Jan 09 11:53:57 dab-int1-001 odr-dabmux[5701]:  prbs udp file zmq
Jan 09 11:53:57 dab-int1-001 odr-dabmux[5701]: Inputs format supported:
Jan 09 11:53:57 dab-int1-001 odr-dabmux[5701]:  raw mpeg packet epm
Jan 09 11:53:57 dab-int1-001 odr-dabmux[5701]: Output URLs supported:
Jan 09 11:53:57 dab-int1-001 odr-dabmux[5701]:  file fifo udp tcp raw simul
Jan 09 11:53:57 dab-int1-001 odr-dabmux[5701]:       ODR-DabMux 1.2.1 starting up
Jan 09 11:53:57 dab-int1-001 odr-dabmux[5701]:       RC: Waiting for connection on port 5001
Jan 09 11:53:57 dab-int1-001 ODR-DabMux[5701]: ODR-DabMux ODR-DabMux 1.2.1 starting up
Jan 09 11:53:57 dab-int1-001 ODR-DabMux[5701]: ODR-DabMux RC: Waiting for connection on port 5001
Jan 09 11:53:57 dab-int1-001 ODR-DabMux[5701]: ODR-DabMux Cyclades card identified.
Jan 09 11:53:57 dab-int1-001 odr-dabmux[5701]:       Cyclades card identified.
Jan 09 11:53:57 dab-int1-001 ODR-DabMux[5701]: ODR-DabMux Can't get raw device MTU!
Jan 09 11:53:57 dab-int1-001 ODR-DabMux[5701]: ODR-DabMux Unable to open output raw://sync0?clocking=master&extsyncclock=10000000

[mpbraendli]

Ooof I don't know by heart! Have a look at the ChangeLog and the git log of src/dabOutput/dabOutputRaw.cpp and maybe the config file parser src/ConfigParser.cpp. Tell me if you get stuck in your search and I'll try to assist.