[Hackrf-dev] Gqrx can't find hackRF

Brian Dickman brian.dickman at gmail.com
Sat Jan 10 17:24:44 EST 2015


A good first step is to make sure that your osmosdr is linked with
libhackrf. Perhaps there is an easier way to do this? Here's my approach.

At a terminal prompt:

1) otool -l `which gqrx` | grep osmo

(those are backticks up by the escape key, not single quotes)

You should get back the full path to your libosmosdr dylib. Take that
filename and feed it into the next command (for example, mine says "name
/usr/local/lib/libgnuradio-osmosdr.0.1.2git.dylib (offset 24)" so I'll use
that path, but use the result you get):

2) otool -l /usr/local/lib/libgnuradio-osmosdr.0.1.2git.dylib | grep hackrf

You should get a result back (for example, mine says "name
/usr/local/lib/libhackrf.0.dylib (offset 24)"). If you don't, then osmosdr
did not get created with libhackrf compiled in. You can also run without
the grep to see all the info that otool knows about libhackrf.

--
Brian

On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 10:16 AM, Jay Hamlin <redwoodranch at mac.com> wrote:

> I have tried hard to solve this problem on my own but I'm stuck and need
> help.  I installed all the software on Macintosh using Homebrew following
> the instructions carefully.  I used hackrf_spiflash and hackrf_cpldjtag to
> update the firmware and hackrf_info reports good information like
> everything is fine. But hackRF does not show up as a device in Gqrx and
> osmocom_fft reports no device found.  I saw one other report like this in
> the archives but with no resolution.  It seems like there must be a simple
> configuration or path wrong but I can't figure it out.  Please help.
> Thanks.  Jay.
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