[Hackrf-dev] Help Installing HackRF on Ubuntu for Linux Newbie

[pete M]

Evidently the fact that you stayed too long in front of a computer screen and keyboard, broke your communication skills. Try a softstart by going outside for 5 minute and try to talk to someone. If you cant handle the light of day or the conversation end with " go fuck yourself jerk" or something like this. You Will need a hard reset. For that you Will need to close all computer device or cell Phone that you can acces for a day and try to have some small talk with a real person. If that dont work, you Will need to cute all caféine and or energie drinks. And go to a forest or à Nice place where you can hear bird sign and See water cascade. If after a week you still cant calm down enough to have small talk with someone real, by real I mean a real human, not the voice in your head. Well you Will need to go to the next hospital and try to explain to them how to compile a Kernel for the routed of the company next door. If that does not incite them to lock you up, you are good to come back.

Sometimes in Life it is good to smile a bit... Even when you look like a foul. 



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> Le 16 juil. 2017 à 14:26, Cinaed Simson <cinaed.simson at gmail.com> a écrit :
> 
>> On 07/15/2017 11:01 AM, Jerry wrote:
>> I have my new HackRF working with GNU radio in Windows 7.  I updated the
>> firmware and clpd to latest I want to learn to use SDR in a Linux
>> environment so I installed the Ubuntu package 16.04.2 LTS onto a
>> dedicated HP i5 M520 Quad core laptop.  I tried to install pip then
>> PyBOMBS to use to install GNU radio but there are many slightly
>> different instructions that I encountered error messages along the way. 
>> I wiped my drive/partition and reinstalled Ubuntu 16.04.2 and then used
>> the recommended approach on
>> https://wiki.gnuradio.org/index.php/InstallingGR
> 
> https://wiki.gnuradio.org/index.php/InstallingGR
> 
> Evidently you didn't read it. From the quote in bold fonts:
> 
> "Do check if the version you're installing is up to date! Sometimes old
> versions slip into the packaging systems. If you're using an outdated
> version, don't expect any help on the mailing list!"
> 
> In other words, file a bug report with Ubuntu.
> 
> Post your gnuradio radio questions on
> 
>  https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
> 
> This is the HackRF mailing list.
> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> $ apt-get install gnuradio
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> This ran for a while installing and it seems to have installed OK.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I next queried my HackRF with
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> $ hackrf_info
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> and got a message to install it with $ apt-get install hackrf, which I did.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Now when I run $ hackrf_info I get the apparently notorious:
> 
> The same thing applies for the HackRF mailing list as for the gnuradio
> mailing list. If you have trouble with distro version, and you can't
> find some to help you with distro problems, try filing a bug report with
> Ubuntu.
> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Found HackRF board 0
>> 
>> hackrf_open() failed: HACKRF_ERROR_LIBUSB (-1000)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I checked the FAQ’s and ran hackrf_info as root but got same message.  I
>> also ran it a few times with same result, so it doesn’t seem to be a
>> permission problem.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I read that if the install was with PyBOMBS that udev rules need
>> updating but I don’t know if the install procedure I followed used pybombs
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Any advice appreciated.
> 
> The HackRF is research instrument.
> 
> Unless you're capable of installing the latest software release
> 
>  https://github.com/mossmann/hackrf/releases
> 
> and updating the firmware if necessary - and possibly on occasion,
> putting the device into the dfu mode when it appears dead, then you're
> not ready to play with the big boys.
> 
> The people on this mailing list will help with problems related to the
> HackRF.
> 
> Unless you state the version of the libhackrf library and the firmware
> on the HackRF, then don't expect any help - as far as I know nobody on
> this mailing list is capable of mind reading.
> 
> It's most likely missing the file
> 
>  /etc/udev/rules.d/53-hackrf.rules
> 
> If it's missing you can find it in the source file.
> 
> And then take that as a red flag that the people porting the software
> don't know the first thing about the HackRF.
> 
> Post the output of
> 
> hackrf_info
> 
> -- Cinaed
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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>> 
>> 
>> Jerry NY2KW
>> 
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