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. > -- > > > To Error Is Human, To Forgive Divine, > Neither of Which Is Marine Corps Policy > -- > semper fi ... brian riley, underhill center, vermont > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > HackRF-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://nine.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/hackrf-dev >
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