Re: Ubuntu 20.04 cannot find the Hackrf board?

[Cinaed Simson]

Incidentally, don't use sudo to run the hackrf on Linux.

You should be able to run the hackrf on Linux under your login userid - 
you just need sudo to install the software on the system.

I suggest you subscribe to the hackrf list

   https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/hackrf-dev

they should be able to help you.

-- Cinaed


On 8/15/22 03:04, Marcus Müller wrote:
> Hi George,
>
> On 8/3/22 19:23, George Edwards wrote:
> > Hi Marcus,  thanks for the response, very much appreciated!
> > I have a Windows PC and I believe that in order to build OOT blocks, 
> > one needs a Linux environment.
> No, that is not correct.
> > I installed VirtualBox so that I can install Ubuntu 20.04 to get a 
> > Linux environment to install Gnuradio 3.9 in. George
>
> Why would you then build from source? Just install the packages.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Marcus
>
> > On Wed, Aug 3, 2022, 8:26 AM Marcus Müller <mmueller@gnuradio.org> 
> > wrote:
> >
> >     Hi George,
> >
> >     you'll have to do a bit more investigation on your end, I'm
> >     afraid. We don't know how you
> >     set up your VM, or how you're passing through the USB driver.
> >     Generally, USB passthrough
> >     comes at a high overhead, and sometimes that's prohibitively slow,
> >     as well. Also, why do
> >     VirtualBox (and that's not a Microsoft product, so I'm really
> >     confused by what you're
> >     referring to), if you can have WSL2?
> >
> >     Best regards,
> >     Marcus
> >
> >     On 03.08.22 14:15, George Edwards wrote:
> >     > Hello GNURadio Community,
> >     >
> >     > I built a grc flowgraph in Gnuradio 3.9.5 on Ubuntu 20.04 inside
> >     Microsoft VirtualBox. I
> >     > have a HackRF One radio hardware. I installed the hackrf drivers
> >     in Ubuntu with command:
> >     > sudo apt-get install -y hackrf
> >     > and confirmed the installation. I connected the HackRF One board
> >     to my computer and in the
> >     > Terminal prompt entered the command hackrf_info and received
> >     the response that it does not
> >     > see the Hackrf board.
> >     >
> >     > And true to form when I ran the flowgraph, I get the following
> >     error message:
> >     > RuntimeError: no hackrf device matches
> >     >
> >     > Why is Ubuntu 20.04 running inside MS VirtualBox not seeing the
> >     HackRf board with the
> >     > HackRf drivers installed. And, how do I resolve this issue?
> >     >
> >     > Will appreciate any help to resolve this issue.
> >     >
> >     > George
> >     >