[Hackrf-dev] ubuntu 14.04lts

Fri Jul 17 12:56:09 EDT 2015

I get this on my Nvidia Jetson bd.  Google this and it turns out it was just
introduced in (I forget which) libusb or ubuntu 14.0x.   So it's known,
and it acts like you describe.

So I'm waiting for a fix.

eddie af5sa

On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Rainer Matla <rainer at matla.me> wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> i tried to use the installation script from Donald. Everything seems to
> work, so i don’t get any errors during the installation or so.
>
> But when i try to run the hackrf_info command i get the following error:
>
> Found HackRF board 0:
> hackrf_open() failed HACKRF_ERROR_LIBUSB (-1000)
>
> Okay, i know this error could be from the missing dev rules. But they are
> all there.
>
> The real crazy part is: When i’m trying the command a second time, i get a
> correct output.
>
> Firmware Version: 2014.08.1
> Part ID XXX
> Serial XXX
>
> When i retry it: every next try works. But when i’m waiting 2 minutes, i
> get the same libusb error from above.
>
> Can anyone help me with that? (i tried the hacker on my MacBook and it
> works fine so it should not be a Hardware Issue… )
>
> Thank you!
>
> Am 13.07.2015 um 00:38 schrieb Donald Pupecki <pupeckd at sunyit.edu>:
>
> No problem. I'll add that if you switch between the hackrf and the ettus
> board in gqrx it may eventually tell you an error about gain settings not
> being correct and refuse to start. Not sure if it's been fixed yet. But if
> you get it, its due to gqrx saving the gain settings and trying to apply
> the wrong ones when you load up the ettus board. The fix is to remove the
> gains=<blah> line from ~/.config/gqrx/default.conf
>
> Or just rm the whole file. (Tho that will clear some settings.)
> On Jul 12, 2015 3:20 PM, <tokens at myranch.com> wrote:
>
>>   Donald,
>>
>> Thank you for your script!!!! After spending the last four days (on and
>> off) trying Pybombs and other methods, reinstalling Ubuntu each time, your
>> script was the thing that worked for me.
>>
>> Al
>>
>>  *From:* Donald Pupecki <pupeckd at sunyit.edu>
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 08, 2015 3:56 AM
>> *To:* Paul Connolly <eeipcy at gmail.com>
>> *Cc:* hackrf-dev at greatscottgadgets.com
>> *Subject:* Re: [Hackrf-dev] ubuntu 14.04lts
>>
>>
>> Well,
>>
>> Heres an argument for just doing it from source. I made a little script
>> that builds gqrx and gnuradio with support for hackrf, uhd, and rtlsdr on
>> 14.04lts.
>>
>> I highly encourage anyone who wants to use it to not just run it but open
>> it up and copy/paste the lines into a terminal so you see the process. It's
>> written such that it avoids any real need to know bash to use. All the
>> commands are just as if you would have typed them into a terminal yourself.
>>
>> I included some commented out lines on the bottom that should show you
>> how to uninstall or update.
>>
>> And lastly... it's not very robust, in favor of simplicity, so I wouldn't
>> try to rerun it without uninstalling and then deleting the SDR directory it
>> created. It should be considered more like a how to that happens to be
>> executable.
>>
>> Hope someone finds it useful.
>>
>> https://github.com/Flamewires/u14lts-gr-build/blob/master/build.sh
>> On Jul 7, 2015 5:59 PM, "Paul Connolly" <eeipcy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Either way is fine, just choose one and stick to it. Me personalty I use
>>> packages, but I re-pointed my Debian machine from wheezy to jessie, so
>>> I at the cost of being behind on security updates (machine is not
>>> networked) I'm slightly closer to the cutting edge, but still behind
>>> using  ppa:gqrx/(releases and snapshots), mostly because I did not know
>>> that it existed when I set the machine.
>>>
>>> packages
>>> -------------
>>> pros:
>>> Easy to install (
>>> https://github.com/mossmann/hackrf/wiki/Installing-gnuradio-on-Ubuntu-14.04-with-the-packaging-manager
>>> )
>>> Fast to install
>>> Easy to update (sudo apt-get update)
>>> Fast to update
>>> cons:
>>> Can lag behind the cutting edge of changes to the source code ( releases,
>>> but maybe not snapshots )
>>> In theory a malicious person could own your machine, but the same is
>>> true from an OS distributor.
>>>
>>> pybombs
>>> pros:
>>> Works on more Linux distributions
>>> At the cutting edge of changes to the source code
>>> Easy to install ( http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/pybombs/wiki )
>>> Easy to update (./pybombs update)
>>> More secure since you have built the binaries, no  need to trust that
>>> the package binaries are not malicious (99.999999999% of the time, not an
>>> issue).
>>> cons:
>>> Always at the cutting edge of changes to the source code
>>> Slower to install and update - compiling all the source code into
>>> binaries takes time
>>>
>>>
>>> On 07/07/2015 22:06, tokens at myranch.com wrote:
>>>
>>> There have been several suggestions as to how to install. What are the pros and cons of the methods. I am Linux illiterate so please be explicit.
>>>
>>> Thank you all for your help.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Al
>>>
>>>
>>>
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