[Hackrf-dev] FATAL: No supported devices found to pick from.

[Dominic Spill]

On 11 January 2017 at 11:22, Marc Pàmies Massip <mpamies247 at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> I am having some problems trying to use GNUradio together with a
HackRF-One. The hardware seems to be fine as the LED lights turned ON and
it works with SDR# on Windows.
>
> After running command "hackrf_info" on a Linux distro it returns this:
>
> Found HackRF board 0:
> Board ID Number: 2 (HackRF One)
> Firmware Version: 2014.08.1
> Part ID Number: 0xa000cb3c 0x00554743
> Serial Number: 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x466c64c8 0x278a43c7

This suggests that the hardware is accessible and you have permission to
access it.

> Until here everything seems to work as expected. The problem comes when I
execute a flowgraph with an osmocom source on it, then the program displays
the following message:
>
> gr-osmosdr v0.1.4-75-gae686c46 (0.1.5git) gnuradio 3.7.10
> built-in source types: file fcd rtl_tcp rfspace redpitaya

This line of output suggests that the installed version od gr-osmosdr was
either built without HackRF support or it cannot find libhackrf at runtime
(I don't know how gr-osmosdr finds the libraries for hardware support).

> I am running a Kali Linux as a virtual machine (with VMware), which is
supposed to include multiple sdr tools. I think that the problem has to do
with some libraries or tools for HackRF, but when I try to install or
upgrade libhackrf or hackrf-tools the followin message appears in the
terminal:
>
> root at kali247:~# apt-get install hackrf-tools
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> E: Unable to locate package hackrf-tools
>
> The same message appears for libhackrf. Any idea of what could be wrong?
I am a bit lost right now, any help is welcome. I don't know if I am
missing something, if you need further information just ask.

It seems likely that your version of the HackRF tools was installed from
source rather than the package repositories.  It could be fairly out of
date too.

How old is the Kali install in the VM?  Would it be possible to update it
or, as Chuck suggested, try another one such as pentoo or the GNU Radio
live image?

Thanks,
  Dominic
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