Radio Configuration Problems

[powster]

When I try configuring the radio I always get the error message "Bridge Configuration failed: IP address not changed. Please ensure the bridge is connected to this computer and try again."

I've connected the new Radio to the correct power and put the ethernet cable in the correct spot. On the Radio, the power led is stable and the led that I think signals a connection to the computer is blinking. I'm not sure what to try to fix this issue. Ideas?

[RyanN]

Originally Posted by powster

When I try configuring the radio I always get the error message "Bridge Configuration failed: IP address not changed. Please ensure the bridge is connected to this computer and try again."

I've connected the new Radio to the correct power and put the ethernet cable in the correct spot. On the Radio, the power led is stable and the led that I think signals a connection to the computer is blinking. I'm not sure what to try to fix this issue. Ideas?

I got ours working. Try to do a few things.

The port to use is the one on the edge of the device and not the middle. You should know that already though.

Disable your firewall. My firewall blocked me from configuring ours.

Try another Ethernet cable. They can and do break.

[jkoritzinsky]

Try running the configuration tool as admin. That worked for us.

[powster]

I tried a few times with another Ethernet cable and with the firewall turned off but I got the exact same result each time.

I'll try the admin advice tomorrow and let you guys know how it turns out!

[rsisk]

Every time I ran into this problem on Saturday's RQBS, I followed the instructions on the Radio Configuration Utility screen and got it to work.

[epylko]

powster - did you image the radio by following the instructions on AndyMark? The radio is shipped without code on it.

[IronMustang9]

Team 3711 is having a similar problem - the bridge won't connect with first basic config so in trying next step to re-flash, we start the flash update process, it says it found it, but the flash update keeps timing out. Anyone else having this same problem and got around it?

[epylko]

I think the first time we tried to image the radio it timed out. We rebooted the radio and then ran the image utility. The upgrade worked after that.

[controls weenie]

We were able to configure the router once it but we were not able to log into the bridge/router. We were concerned that we could not log into the router. Is there any reason to log into the router this year and set properties?

We tried to configure it again to use a password and now we are getting 50% throughput when we ping the RoboRIO. (ping 10.29.73.2)

We have to deploy our programs to the RoboRIO using a USB cable until we fix this issue. Our Driver Station (DS) appears to be working but I am sure the DS is getting 50% throughput.

[IronMustang9]

After our initial flash timeouts and giving up on the first unit, we had another spare radio of same type and it fired right up without having to flash, with everything else being the same. So it appears our first radio was bad and we will try to exchange it.

[powster]

The radio was successfully imaged and I have tried with multiple ethernet cables. Still not working

EDIT: I am reflashing the radio (I had to go through Ethernet and not Local Area Connection like the guide says) and will see if it works after.

EDIT: reflash was successful... But I still can't configure it!!!

[IronMustang9]

It turns out our first radio was OK after all. I had a forehead-slapper moment when I realized the first radio I tried to set up was one we ordered as a spare directly from Andy Mark, which means it does not have any configuration at all like the KOP radio does.

So I followed the base setup instructions downloaded from http://www.andymark.com/om5psetup and it appears to be working fine now.

[controls weenie]

We fixed our radio configuration. We had a high packet loss % and then we placed a 5 port switch on our robot for one RoboRIO and two PCDuinos. Then we connected the bridge to the 5 port switch. This will be our competition configuration since the new radio only has two ports.

We had to use the bridge connector farthest from the power input cable. If we used the other (closest to the power connector) then we got (50-75)% packet loss. Does anyone else had hi-packet losses using the port near the power connector?

[Loxmyth]

After a couple hours of troubleshooting, I finally figured out that the FRC Radio Configuration Utility puts the ethernet adapter's TCP/IPv4 settings to "use the following IP address" but never changes it back to autodetect after closing the program. After I set it back to auto, I was able to connect to OpenWrt.