[Hackrf-dev] Finally I got it .... but , Oh what a ride getting there!

[Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina]

On 09/08/2014 01:09 AM, Brian Riley wrote:
> The FALSE starts:
> 
>    1 -  first I went with Pentoo Live DVD (Mike's idea) — NOPE — it didn't like 
> my wireless card. GRC worked for lesson one solution once I ran an ethernet 
> cable — GRC wants Internet connection. GNU Radio was at  3.7.4

I'd be interested to hear what wifi card you have.  To my knowledge I
support everything that linux supports with an open driver (specifically
that excludes broadcom wl and other "vendor drivers" which seem to crash
the kernel more than successfully pass bits).
> 
>    2 -  then I went with Kali (Darren at Haj5) — Great peripheral support (it 
> even liked Toshiba touchscreen), but Alas GNU radio was topped out at 3.6.5.1 
> and 1.0.7 and 1.0.8 —  then in 1.0.9 they removed GNU radio altogether from 
> both Live DVD and repo.
> 
>    3 -  next on the list GNU radio Live DVD, HURRAY, gqrx and GNU radio all up 
> to snuff — but this this ISO really weird … regardless of whether you burning to 
>   a  USB stick or to an actual DVD, the Ubuntu System insists on treating it as 
> a CDROM …  Will allow no use of  gparted to add space to the active partition 
> or create new writable partition, et cetera
> 
>    4 -  and last on this list of shame… I installed Ubuntu 14.0 4.1 120 GB SSD 
> and then tried to build GNU radio and  GQRX by hand. It worked … but alas the 
> Ubuntu repo topped them
 out at 3.7.2.1 and 2.2.0 respectively. I gave up and 
> went to bed.
> 
> Now for some good news:
> 
>    5  -  I got up from breakfast of  eggs, bacon, and English muffins made by my 
> better half with a clear mind and a pretty good idea what to do … ˆapp-get 
> removed rtl,, gnu, osmo, etc. Then obtained the script build-gnuradioand ran it 
> … and behold I had a working GNU radio at version 3.7.5

The gnuradio team is recommending something called "pyBOMBS" now.  I
don't use it, but people seem to like it.
> 
> 
>   *** TWO PROBLEMS ***
> 
>    6 -  I assume that GQRX would be made by the script, it wasn’t. This URL 
> should be very helpful to get GQRX together:

Again, pyBOMBS.
> 
>    
>   <http://jeffskinnerbox.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/gnu-radio-and-gqrx-sdr-receiver/>
> 
>    7 -  HackRF doesn't show up in the sources menu and I'll be darned if I can 
> figure what the euphemism from the list for it … or …  Do we have a bug here?

That's normal for older versions of gr-osmosdr or if gr-osmosdr is built
without support for hackrf.  You can put hackrf=0 in the "other" box to
test.

Thanks,
Zero
> 
>   *** To Boot or Not to Boot ***
> 
> For this exercise in self abuse I was using three machines; a 2012 iMac, quad 
> core I7 3.1  GHz and 16 GB RAM, a Toshiba Win 8 laptop with 2 core I3 and 4GB 
> and touchscreen, and finally a    4 year old Shuttle XPC   a 2.5 GHz Core 2 Duo 
> , 4 GB and two SSDs (no HDDs at all)
> 
> And the winner is the shuttle XPC! Throughout the exercise I almost never knew 
> which USB stick, DVD, or SD card would condescend to allow itself to be booted. 
> IN the end the old(er) Shuttle loaded all but two or three of the various 
> combinations of LINUX OSes and media presented to it.
> 
> Right now the Shuttle is running Windows 8.1 240 GB SSD and Ubuntu 14.0 4.1 120 
> GB SSD dual-booted under Grub2. The Linux SSD drive is in an external case 
> couple into the system on USB2. This offsets the speed advantage of the SSD some 
> what.  I plant  mount  it inside on the SATA bus.
> --
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> To Error Is Human, To Forgive Divine,
> Neither of Which Is Marine Corps Policy
> --
> semper fi ... brian  riley, underhill center, vermont
>    <brianbr at wulfden.org <mailto:brianbr at wulfden.org>>
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