Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] (no subject)

[mgray]

I removed the xerces stuff from the build and install scripts last month.  
You may want to download the scripts again:

http://www.kd7lmo.net/ground_gnuradio_baseline.html




On Sat, 22 Oct 2005, Robitaille, Michael wrote:

> >On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 14:26:23 -0700, Eric Blossom wrote:
> 
>  
> 
> >>On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 03:09:21PM -0600, Robitaille, Michael wrote:
> >> Hello all and thanks for your.
> >> 
> >> I finally got all the baseline and gnuradio software installed per
> >> KD7LMO.net with some modification and still some question, for instance:
> >> 
> >>             1- In the install_baseline.sh there is the installation of
> >> xerces-c-src-2_6_0  but not in the baseline build shell or in the list of
> >> items needed.  I did not install this package, is this ok?
> 
>  
> 
> >You don't need xerces.  This is OK
>  
> It would be good to change the install script at KD7LM0 web site.
>  
> >>             2- Is the Octave/Octave-forge package needed?  I did build
> and
> >> installed these packages.
> 
>  
> 
> >Not required for GNU Radio, but nice to have.
> 
>  
> 
> It would be good to to mention that this is optional at KD7LM0 web site.
> 
>  
> 
> >>             3- Should any of these packages, including gnuradio, be
> 
> >> installed with sudo?
> 
>  
> 
> > Depends on your setup.  I don't install with sudo (being generally
> > paranoid), and have arranged things so that I'm in a group that has
> > write access to everything under /usr/local.  Judicious use of 
> 
> >  chmod g+s on directories under there is useful.
> 
>  
> 
> I like the idea of not having to use sudo.  I will try to change the
> permission on the appropriate directory.
> 
> Does anyone have a list of what those directories are?
> 
>  
> 
> >> I then tried to do install my brand new USRP, =), based on the wiki
> >> UsrpInstall.  Here are the problems I have encountered and need help
> with:
>  
>  
> >> 1-       The directory /usr/local/share/usrp/rev2 was not created with
> the
> >> required files (firmware).  I created the directory and added the files
> as
> >> root manually.  Running the program test_usrp_standard_tx does not seem
> to
> >> install the firmware file in the directory.  Most likely related to #3
> above
> >> but not I did try to do gnuradio install with sudo and it did not put the
> >> fillies.  I did use CVS and per the instruction, I manually copied the
> file
> >> usrp_fpga.rbf to the directory.
> 
>  
> 
> > I think this was a permissions problem.  Unless you're setup to write
> 
> > /usr/local and below, you will want to "sudo make install".
> 
>  
> 
> >> 2-       When I run test_usrp_standard_tx I get the error - can't find
> >> usrp_fpga.rbf.  The LED on the USRP does change from 2Hz to 1Hz, so the
> 
> >> firmware did get loaded.
> 
>  
> 
> > If you're building from CVS, you need to install the .rbf file manually.
> > Grab http://comsec.com/usrp/usrp_fpga_rev2_2005_10_20.rbf
> <http://comsec.com/usrp/usrp_fpga_rev2_2005_10_20.rbf>  and install
> > it as /usr/local/share/usrp/rev2/usrp_fpga.rbf
>  
> I did that (see last sentence in #1) and I still got the error that it could
> not find usrp_fpga.rbf.
> Is this file supposed to be somewhere else to?
>  
> Isn't' there a better method to set this up with the CVS release?
>  
> >> 3-       I do have hotplug running and seem to have permission to access
> the
> >> USRP device (when I had a camera to the USB port, it loaded
> automatically).
> >> When I check the /etc/hotplup/usb, I do not see usrp or usrp.usremap.
>  
> > We don't use the hotplug stuff.  Our library loads the firmware and fpga
> 
> > bitstream when you first open the device.
> 
>  
> 
> Why the the UsrpInstall wiki mention that you need hotplug for setting up
> USB device permission?
> 
>  
> 
> I am on FC4, how can I make sure that I have permission for the USB?
> 
>  
> 
> I do not see any usrp or usrp.usremap in the /etc/hotplug/usb directory but
> I do see some for the USB camera that I connected.
> 
>  
> 
> Can I get more information about the scrip that set the device permission
> mention in the UsrpInstall wiki?
> 
>  
> 
> > There's lots of variation on usb device permissions depending on your
> > distribution.  Under SuSE 9.3 it "just works".  Not sure why!
> > Under Mandrake 10.1 I made myself a member of group usb, which is the
> > group that owns everything under /proc/bus/usb/*
> > FWIW, the gid and perms used by usbfs can be set with a mount command
> > option.  E.g., 
>  
> >   address@hidden ~]$ grep usbfs /etc/rc.d/init.d/usb
> >         action "Mount USB filesystem" mount -t usbfs -o
> devmode=0664,devgid=43 
> 
> >  none /proc/bus/usb
> 
>  
> 
> I am running on FC4, any help with those that have experience or have USRP
> running on FC4 would be appreciated.
> 
>  
> 
> >> 
> >> 4-       When I run the example usrp_oscope.py I get the error No module
> >> named gnuradio.
>  
> > Did you make install?  Did it work?
> > You might try "sudo ldconfig"
> > Is your PYTHONPATH set?  Should be something like:
>  
> >  /usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages
> 
>  
> 
> I did install and will do it again making sure that there are absolutely no
> errors.  Somehow I must have missed an error message about not being able to
> create the /usr/local/share/usrp directories.  I will try it with setting
> write permission for the share directory.
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks for the help.
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