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

[Brian Riley]

	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

  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-gnuradio	and ran it … and behold I had a working GNU radio at version 3.7.5


 *** 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:

   <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?

 *** 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
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semper fi ... brian  riley, underhill center, vermont
  <brianbr at wulfden.org>








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