[Hackrf-dev] Jawbreaker firmware update fail

[hackgnar]

You should be able to get this going on a mac.  That is what I am currently using.  I use homebrew, but port should be even easier for the dependancies.  Both have dfu-util, etc.

Ryan

On Jul 29, 2013, at 8:37 PM, Graham Cottew <gc at zendata.com> wrote:


> Thanks Ryan.

> 

> Step 1 done.

> 

> Step 2 in progress. I may be making life even more difficult than I need as I am running on a Mac. 

> 

> But before I had this flash problem I have been going great guns with gnu radio 3.7, gr-osmosdr and with the Jawbreaker working well on receive and transmit using a bunch of gnuradio companion programs I have created. Put up a lovely discone wide range antennae about 20 meters above ground and just starting to get into it!

> 

> If the Mac proves to hard to get all the dependancies running on then I am building an ubuntu 13.04 notebook up as we speak (I also have a number of Ubuntu VMs running gnuradio 3.6.4 and 3.7 that work fine with the Jawbreaker as well).

> 

> 

> 

> On 30/07/2013, at 10:52 AM, hackgnar <ripper at hackgnar.com> wrote:

> 

>> Graham,

>> 

>> I think you may just be stuck on a bad flash.  The first time this happened to me, I had to bang my head on the table for a few minutes.  These are the detailed steps on how to recover.

>> 

>> 1) Following the steps on the wiki firmware section, I unplugged the hackrf, shorted the two pins to enter DFU boot mode and then plugged in the board with the pins still shorted.

>> 

>> 2) I ran "make program" from inside the hackrf_usb directory.  I got stuck here as I didn't have the program "dfu-program" installed.  After installing this I was fine.  You'll obviously also need other build dependancies up and running.  The trickiest being  https://code.launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded , but you can read the readme.md located here https://github.com/mossmann/hackrf/tree/master/firmware

>> 

>> 3) After running "make program" successfully, you can then change into the hackrf_usb_rom_to_ram directory, compile the hackrf_usb_rom_to_ram.bin file and install it with: 

>> hackrf_spiflash -w hackrf_usb_rom_to_ram.bin

>> This assumes you installed hackrf_spiflash to your base bin directories.

>> 

>> Let me know if you need any more help.

>> 

>> Ryan

>> 

>> 

>> On Jul 29, 2013, at 6:36 PM, Graham Cottew <gc at zendata.com> wrote:

>> 

>>> Happy to do that but do not know how to recover from my failed flash. The board appears to be in DFU mode even without the jumper in.

>>> 

>>> What is the process for recovering if I am unable to run 'make program' ?

>>> I do not have a hackrf_usb.bin but I do have a known good hackrf_usb_rom_to_ram.bin from 2013.06.1 

>>> 

>>> What are the steps to get the DFU'd Jawbreaker to download these files?

>>> 

>>> 

>>> On 30/07/2013, at 9:15 AM, Michael Ossmann <mike at ossmann.com> wrote:

>>> 

>>>> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 09:06:55AM +1000, Graham Cottew wrote:

>>>>> 

>>>>> Is that the expected LED status for DFU mode?

>>>> 

>>>> Yes.

>>>> 

>>>> I recommend using the binary firmware image from 2013.07.1 or 2013.06.1

>>>> in order to avoid problems with your compilation environment until you

>>>> have the hardware concerns sorted.

>>> 

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