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author | Nicholas Corgan <nick.corgan@ettus.com> | 2013-05-03 10:54:36 -0700 |
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committer | Nicholas Corgan <nick.corgan@ettus.com> | 2013-05-03 10:59:37 -0700 |
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UHD has man pages now
* Linux installations will automatically install man pages
* Moved usrp_n2xx_simple_net_burner and usrp2_card_burner into bin
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diff --git a/host/docs/uhd_find_devices.1 b/host/docs/uhd_find_devices.1 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..7dc0dd470 --- /dev/null +++ b/host/docs/uhd_find_devices.1 @@ -0,0 +1,108 @@ +.TH "uhd_find_devices" 1 "3.5.1" UHD "User Commands" +.SH NAME +uhd_find_devices \- USRP Hardware Driver Discovery Utility +.SH DESCRIPTION +Find UHD-supporting Software Radio Peripherals attached by USB, +network or embedded configuration. +.LP +The UHD package is the universal hardware driver for Ettus Research +products. The goal is to provide a host driver and API for +current and future Ettus Research products. Users will be able to use +the UHD driver standalone or with 3rd party applications. +.LP +Hardware supporting UHD drivers includes the Universal Software Radio +Peripheral, or USRP, available in several models. +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B uhd_find_devices [OPTIONS] +.SH OPTIONS +.IP "Device Address Arguments:" +--args \fIarg\fR +.IP "This help information:" +--help +.SH IDENTIFYING USRP DEVICES +.sp +Devices are addressed through key/value string pairs. +These string pairs can be used to narrow down the search for a specific device or group of devices. +Most UHD utility applications and examples have a \-\-args parameter that takes a device address, +where the device address is expressed as a delimited string. +See the documentation in types/device_addr.hpp for reference. + +Every device has several ways of identifying it on the host system. +.SS Identifying by hardware identifier +.sp + +All USRP devices can be found through their hardware series identifier, which match to USRP +devices as follows: + +Argument | Device + +type=usrp1 | USRP1 + +type=usrp2 | USRP2, USRP N200, USRP N210 + +type=b100 | USRP B100 + +type=e100 | USRP E100, USRP E110 + +.SS Identifying by serial number + +All USRP devices are given a unique serial number, which can be used to identify a device as follows: + +serial=12345678 + +.SS Identifying by IP address + +USRP2, USRP N200, and USRP N210 devices connected to the host machine can all be found through their +IP addresses, as follows: + +addr=192.168.10.2 + +.SS Identifying by name + +Users have the option of giving their USRP devices short names using the usrp_burn_mb_eeprom utility +in lib/uhd/utils. Devices that have been given a name can be identified as follows: + +name=foo + +.fi +.SH EXAMPLES +.SS Device discovery via command line +.sp +Device address arguments can be supplied to narrow the scope of the search. +.sp +.nf +.ft C +uhd_find_devices \-\-args="type=usrp1" + +\-\- OR \-\- + +uhd_find_devices \-\-args="serial=12345678" +.ft P +.fi +.IP "Find all devices available to this system:" +uhd_find_devices +.SH SEE ALSO +UHD documentation: +.B http://files.ettus.com/uhd_docs/manual/html/index.html +.LP +GR-UHD documentation: +.B http://gnuradio.org/doc/doxygen/page_uhd.html +.LP +Other UHD programs: +.sp +uhd_usrp_probe(1) +.SH AUTHOR +This manual page was written by Maitland Bottoms and Nicholas Corgan +for the Debian project (but may be used by others). +.SH COPYRIGHT +Copyright (c) 2010 Ettus Research LLC +.LP +This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify +it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by +the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or +(at your option) any later version. +.LP +This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +GNU General Public License for more details. |