Xilinx Boards and Kits

[didache]

Hi,

I'm trying to get the Base Reference Design running on the SP605 Spartan-6 Evaluation Board. When I get to "Step 7" in the Hardware Setup Guide, the BRD GUI doesn't connect to the FPGA. The instructions tell you turn off the wireless network card; do you have to do anything about the wired network (other than unplug)?

Does anyone have any suggestions on troubleshooting?

I've run the 'Diagnostic Flash Demonstration' successfully with no problems. Including Ethernet loopback.

Thanks,

Mike

[mcgett]

Step 2 says to connect the Ethernet cable to your PC.  Did you do that?

[didache]

Yes.

[ntropy]

Did you turn your wireless card off?

[mcgett]

I think that the problem is that you either didn't select the wired network interface in the GUI.  Take a look at page 18 in the more comprehenisve getting started guide.

Another possibility is that the wired network interface kept a previously assigned IP address that isn't with in the sub-net that the SP605 is using (192.168.1.x I think). From a command prompt you can try using ipconfig /release all

[didache]

Thanks for your response. Unfortunately, that doesn't work either.

Yes - I've connected the ethernet cable and turned off the wireless adapter. I've selected the wired ethernet adapter in the BRD GUI. I've tried ipconfig /release /all. I've tried manually setting the IP address to 192.168.1.5 (where is the IP address of the board documented?) I've double-checked the jumper settings and switches.

Do you have any more suggestions? Has anyone else had problems like this?

[jamesm]

Mike,

I've rechecked the SP605 hardware with two different computers and it works on both. Can I get your phone number and call you regarding this issue?

Thanks,

Jim McManus

[didache]

Jim,

I'm reluctant to publicise my phone no. on a forum, or my email for that matter. Is there a way of sending messages privately through the forum?

Having said that, I've made some progress. I tried on a separate PC, running Windows XP this time: it worked!! So the board and cables must be okay. I guess the problem's with Vista. I've tried turning the firewall off.Is it all supposed to workunder Vista?

Mike

[unclejoe · Accepted solution]

I had a similar problem with my sp601 board with Vista. I used WireShark to diagnose the connection and saw a bunch of Windows service traffic, which I thought might confuse the board. After turning off client, QoS, IPV6, discovery (safest bet is to disable everything), I finally see the convolved image!

Note: IP addresses are irrelevant because the app uses raw ethernet frames and I didn't need to disable my wireless.

[davidbowman]

This might be no use whatsoever but ......

I was having exactly the same problem on my ML605 board until I discovered that I was setting the dip-switches on SW1 not S1 as per the instructions.

Thought it was worth mentioning