[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
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> 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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> 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
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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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> >
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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>
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>
> 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>
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>
>
> 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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> > HackRF-dev at greatscottgadgets.com
> > https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/hackrf-dev
> >
>
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