[Hackrf-dev] HackRF-dev Digest, Vol 44, Issue 10

Cinaed Simson cinaed.simson at gmail.com
Fri Jun 17 12:41:38 EDT 2016


No it doesn't - rfcat is the firmware which runs on the Yardstick One.

On 06/17/2016 03:57 AM, O.T. Powell wrote:
> Hi guys, does hack RF work with RF cat or
> No?  The HackRF command line interface It does basically the same thing
> as RF cat doesn't it?  
> 
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>        1. Re: HackRF Install in Kali Linux 2.0 (O.T. Powell)
>        2. Re: HackRF Install in Kali Linux 2.0 (Adam Blanquart)
>        3. Re: HackRF Install in Kali Linux 2.0 (Dominic Spill)
>        4. Rx Performance new user (Gregory Ratcliff)
>        5. Re: Rx Performance new user (Cinaed Simson)
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>     Message: 1
>     Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 09:31:22 -0400
>     From: "O.T. Powell" <otpowell at gmail.com>
>     To: Dominic Spill <dominicgs at gmail.com>
>     Cc: "hackrf-dev at greatscottgadgets.com"
>             <hackrf-dev at greatscottgadgets.com>
>     Subject: Re: [Hackrf-dev] HackRF Install in Kali Linux 2.0
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>     Ok, thank you very much Dominic!
> 
> 
>     On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Dominic Spill <dominicgs at gmail.com>
>     wrote:
> 
>     > On 29 April 2016 at 00:37, O.T. Powell <otpowell at gmail.com> wrote:
>     > >
>     > > Can someone please tell me how to install the HackRF in Kali
>     Linux?  I
>     > need step by step or a good webpage that explains it.  Do I need
>     to install
>     > pybombs?  I found this info below but perhaps it's incomplete?
>     >
>     > I wrote some sample instructions on a GitHub issue a few days ago
>     and I'm
>     > waiting for them to be verified before we update the wiki.  If
>     you'd like
>     > to give them a try, they can be found here:
>     > https://github.com/mossmann/hackrf/issues/253#issuecomment-215325327
>     >
>     > These instructions use pybombs, which I'm not entirely happy with
>     when it
>     > comes to installing the packages globally (i.e. /usr/local) as it
>     makes
>     > some assumptions about the system which I am not sure are always
>     valid.
>     >
>     > Alternatively you could use Ubuntu or the GNURadio live distro
>     (based on
>     > Ubuntu) which make things a little simpler.  For example, Ubuntu
>     still has
>     > packages for hackrf, gnuradio and gqrx in the repositories; I have
>     no idea
>     > why Kali doesn't have them available to install.
>     >
>     > Thanks,
>     >   Dominic
>     >
>     >
> 
> 
>     --
>     *O.T. Timothy PowellEE Engineering TechM: 386.299.6991
>     <386.299.6991>otpowell at gmail.com*
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>     Message: 2
>     Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 10:15:25 -0700
>     From: Adam Blanquart <ablanquart at gmail.com>
>     Cc: "hackrf-dev at greatscottgadgets.com"
>             <hackrf-dev at greatscottgadgets.com>
>     Subject: Re: [Hackrf-dev] HackRF Install in Kali Linux 2.0
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>     That's odd - I find my hackRF works great with out of the box Kali
>     2.0.  I
>     don't believe you have to perform the rmmod hackrf anymore, as long
>     as you
>     have updated your hackRF's firmware and CPLD versions to the latest
>     versions.  That being said, I've always run into issues installing
>     gnuradio
>     via pybombs on Kali.  I've found it much easier to download the
>     source and
>     build.  I'll try out the install procedure you've come up with as well,
>     Dominic.
> 
>     Thanks,
>     ablanquart / overflow
> 
>     On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 7:48 AM, Dominic Spill <dominicgs at gmail.com>
>     wrote:
> 
>     > On 29 April 2016 at 00:37, O.T. Powell <otpowell at gmail.com> wrote:
>     > >
>     > > Can someone please tell me how to install the HackRF in Kali
>     Linux?  I
>     > need step by step or a good webpage that explains it.  Do I need
>     to install
>     > pybombs?  I found this info below but perhaps it's incomplete?
>     >
>     > I wrote some sample instructions on a GitHub issue a few days ago
>     and I'm
>     > waiting for them to be verified before we update the wiki.  If
>     you'd like
>     > to give them a try, they can be found here:
>     > https://github.com/mossmann/hackrf/issues/253#issuecomment-215325327
>     >
>     > These instructions use pybombs, which I'm not entirely happy with
>     when it
>     > comes to installing the packages globally (i.e. /usr/local) as it
>     makes
>     > some assumptions about the system which I am not sure are always
>     valid.
>     >
>     > Alternatively you could use Ubuntu or the GNURadio live distro
>     (based on
>     > Ubuntu) which make things a little simpler.  For example, Ubuntu
>     still has
>     > packages for hackrf, gnuradio and gqrx in the repositories; I have
>     no idea
>     > why Kali doesn't have them available to install.
>     >
>     > Thanks,
>     >   Dominic
>     >
>     >
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> 
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>     ADAM BLANQUART | ablanquart at gmail.com |
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>     Message: 3
>     Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 11:50:34 -0700
>     From: Dominic Spill <dominicgs at gmail.com>
>     To: Adam Blanquart <ablanquart at gmail.com>
>     Cc: "hackrf-dev at greatscottgadgets.com"
>             <hackrf-dev at greatscottgadgets.com>
>     Subject: Re: [Hackrf-dev] HackRF Install in Kali Linux 2.0
>     Message-ID:
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>     On 16 June 2016 at 10:15, Adam Blanquart <ablanquart at gmail.com> wrote:
>     > That's odd - I find my hackRF works great with out of the box Kali
>     2.0.  I
>     > don't believe you have to perform the rmmod hackrf anymore, as
>     long as you
>     > have updated your hackRF's firmware and CPLD versions to the latest
>     > versions.
> 
>     The work around for the rmmod issue was included in the 2015.07.R1
>     release, so anything since then shouldn't suffer from the problem.
> 
>     >  That being said, I've always run into issues installing gnuradio
>     > via pybombs on Kali.  I've found it much easier to download the
>     source and
>     > build.  I'll try out the install procedure you've come up with as
>     well,
> 
>     I'm not as convinced about pybombs being the right way to install GNU
>     Radio as I was when I wrote those instructions six weeks ago.
> 
>     At this point, I think I'm just going to recommend whatever the GNU
>     Radio project suggests as the best method to install their software
>     and try to make it easy for HackRF to fit around that.
> 
>     Dominic
> 
>     > On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 7:48 AM, Dominic Spill
>     <dominicgs at gmail.com> wrote:
>     >>
>     >> On 29 April 2016 at 00:37, O.T. Powell <otpowell at gmail.com> wrote:
>     >> >
>     >> > Can someone please tell me how to install the HackRF in Kali
>     Linux?  I
>     >> > need step by step or a good webpage that explains it.  Do I
>     need to install
>     >> > pybombs?  I found this info below but perhaps it's incomplete?
>     >>
>     >> I wrote some sample instructions on a GitHub issue a few days ago
>     and I'm
>     >> waiting for them to be verified before we update the wiki.  If
>     you'd like to
>     >> give them a try, they can be found here:
>     >> https://github.com/mossmann/hackrf/issues/253#issuecomment-215325327
>     >>
>     >> These instructions use pybombs, which I'm not entirely happy with
>     when it
>     >> comes to installing the packages globally (i.e. /usr/local) as it
>     makes some
>     >> assumptions about the system which I am not sure are always valid.
>     >>
>     >> Alternatively you could use Ubuntu or the GNURadio live distro
>     (based on
>     >> Ubuntu) which make things a little simpler.  For example, Ubuntu
>     still has
>     >> packages for hackrf, gnuradio and gqrx in the repositories; I
>     have no idea
>     >> why Kali doesn't have them available to install.
>     >>
>     >> Thanks,
>     >>   Dominic
>     >>
>     >>
>     >> _______________________________________________
>     >> HackRF-dev mailing list
>     >> HackRF-dev at greatscottgadgets.com
>     >> https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/hackrf-dev
>     >>
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > --
>     > ADAM BLANQUART | ablanquart at gmail.com |
>     >
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>     Message: 4
>     Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 22:06:51 -0400
>     From: Gregory Ratcliff <nz8r at att.net>
>     To: "hackrf-dev at greatscottgadgets.com"
>             <hackrf-dev at greatscottgadgets.com>
>     Subject: [Hackrf-dev] Rx Performance new user
>     Message-ID: <E39E3362-5CB2-4FA3-BC75-B2D38252448C at att.net>
>     Content-Type: text/plain;       charset=us-ascii
> 
>     Hackrf users,
> 
>     Anyone with both rtl and hackrf, have you found the Rx performance
>     of your hackrf compares to an rtl on say wideband fm broadcast and
>     VHF narrowband on 150 and 450 MHz?
> 
>     I'm just starting initial testing and proving out the hardware and
>     gnuradio systems.
> 
>     Greg
> 
> 
> 
> 
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>     Message: 5
>     Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 21:23:08 -0700
>     From: Cinaed Simson <cinaed.simson at gmail.com>
>     To: hackrf-dev at greatscottgadgets.com
>     Subject: Re: [Hackrf-dev] Rx Performance new user
>     Message-ID: <bee25344-4499-4db8-5228-41442242a9f6 at GMail.COM>
>     Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252
> 
> 
>     If you configure the HackRF with the same bandwidth and sampling rate as
>     the RTL dongle - roughly 2.5 Mbytes/sec, you should find they perform
>     the same below 1.2 GHz.
> 
>     In order to determine if you have enough CPU power to drive the HackRF
>     at 10 Mbytes/sec or higher, type
> 
>       hackrf_transfer -r /dev/null   (Linux)
>       hackrf_transfer -r NUL         (Windows)
> 
>     The number of bytes/sec should be equal to 2*sampling_rate.
> 
>     If it's less, reduce the sampling rate, e.g.,
> 
>       hackrf_transfer -r /dev/null  -s 5000000
>       hackrf_transfer -r NUL  -s 5000000
> 
>     - poke around until you find your maximum sampling rate.
> 
>     See the tutorials on the HackRF at
> 
>       https://greatscottgadgets.com/sdr
> 
>     Until you finish the SDR course, keep your RF gain = 0.
> 
>     -- Cinaed
> 
> 
>     On 06/16/2016 07:06 PM, Gregory Ratcliff wrote:
>     > Hackrf users,
>     >
>     > Anyone with both rtl and hackrf, have you found the Rx performance
>     of your hackrf compares to an rtl on say wideband fm broadcast and
>     VHF narrowband on 150 and 450 MHz?
>     >
>     > I'm just starting initial testing and proving out the hardware and
>     gnuradio systems.
>     >
>     > Greg
>     >
>     >
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