Re: Ubuntu 20.04 cannot find the Hackrf board?

[George Edwards]

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. I installed VirtualBox so that I can install Ubuntu 20.04 to get a Linux environment to install Gnuradio 3.9 in. George

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
>