Re: Ubuntu 20.04 cannot find the Hackrf board?

[George Edwards]

Thanks Cinaed,

I am going off on vacation, but will definitely contact the hackrf_dev group when I return.

George

On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 7:58 PM Cinaed Simson <cinaed.simson@gmail.com> wrote:

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
>>     >
>>
>