no42 Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 ok open up the script and change the line (line 588) *6.0*|*wheezy*|*sid*|*7.1*|*7.0*|*7.2*) to *6.0*|*wheezy*|*sid*|*7.1*|*7.0*|*7.2*|*7.3*) and try running the script again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TN.Frank Posted February 2, 2014 Author Share Posted February 2, 2014 I'm done. I'm going to do a bit torrent download of Kali 1.0.6 one more time and see if I can get it to install. If I can then great, it should have all the stuff I need for SDR. If not I'll just wait until someone brings out a .deb package that'll work with my dongle. Way too many hoops to jump through just to listen to a radio. I DO appreciate all the help but for now it's just becoming more work then it's really worth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
no42 Posted February 2, 2014 Share Posted February 2, 2014 (edited) your dongle actually works; the problem is the 3rd-party software driving the dongle referring to http://sdr.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/rtl-sdr sudo rtl_fm -f <frequency of station in hertz> -W -s 200000 -r 48000 - | aplay -r 48k -f S16_LE replace <frequency of station in hertz> with a local FM radio station, and hopefully it should play, and you'll hear the local radio example FM station 90.1 would be entered above as 90100000 Edited February 2, 2014 by midnitesnake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mw3demo Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 I have been following this new forum and would just like to say a quick thanks to midnitesnake. You have been extremely patient and firing replies away in this, and other threads! It's great to see. Might be worth doing a FAQ and pin it at the top eventually with the main bits of info regarding SDR. Your enthusiasm and helpfulness gave me the confidence to take a leap and order one. Keep it up! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TN.Frank Posted February 4, 2014 Author Share Posted February 4, 2014 Yep, midnitesnake really tried to help me get things going but I guess to answer the original question "Now What?", Install Kalli Linux 1.0.6 and use their pre-installed Gqrx to get things up and running. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
no42 Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Gnuradio can be tricky on different flavours of linux, and OSX; had a nightmare of a time when OSX updated to Mavericks! But we definately got the drivers working :) I've even tried running an old version of Gnu-radio for the GSM sniffing (personal mobile in small faraday box) and have been unsuccessful; SDR can be very fun and very challenging! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 Okay. Tag! I'm in. I know little about the Debian specifics but I do know a thing or two about build scripts. So, when we last looked at this conversation I got the impression that the building was pretty much complete. The udev rules wouldn't install (hint: do so manually by copying them yourself, assuming they're in the source tarball) but the program itself seemed to be responding properly. The lack of udev rules meant that the SDR device was only readable by root forcing you to use sudo to run the program you were trying to run. With that little recap, what's working and what isn't yet working? Regarding the bits that aren't working, what, specifically, is the output you're getting (if it's a long lump of text, use the spoiler tag)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TN.Frank Posted March 25, 2014 Author Share Posted March 25, 2014 Okay. Tag! I'm in.Good, I can use all the help that I can get. The udev rules wouldn't install (hint: do so manually by copying them yourself, assuming they're in the source tarball) but the program itself seemed to be responding properly. The lack of udev rules meant that the SDR device was only readable by root forcing you to use sudo to run the program you were trying to run. I actually have no idea how to do that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 udev rules are files with the ".rules" extension. Looking at the git repo for rtl-sdr there's only the "rtl-sdr.rules" file in the root folder. If you look at that file, the 'special sauce' in there is the MODE bit at the end. It tells udev to give the device RW rights for everybody which might be a little lax but will do for a private machine. The udev rules files are expected under /etc/udev/rules.d but if Debian tries to be a unique snowflake and place them somewhere else, you should be able to find them with the command "find /etc -name \*.rules" So what you need to do is to manually copy the "rtl-sdr.rules" file into the udev rules.d folder: cp rtl-sdr.rules /etc/udev/rules.d It will be necessary for you to restart the udevd daemon for these changes to take effect (or outright restart the box if you can't be arsed). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TN.Frank Posted March 25, 2014 Author Share Posted March 25, 2014 I wish some of ya'll lived near by so you could come over and give me some lessons in stuff like this. I've learned a lot in the last year but dang, there's just some stuff where you need someone sitting next to you to walk you through it. I appreciat the info, I'll try to use it if I get to that point but for now it looks like I'm just going to take the easy way out and run Kali. So I eat up a bit more drive space with all the extra stuff that I have no clue as to how to use, not a big deal as long as I can get my SDR on. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NuclearC Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 (edited) Hello all I'm new here. I just picked up the SDR Dongle and went to snag a copy of the sdr-sharp software and find the author has a "gone fishing" graphic on his homepage and taken his site down. I've been searching around for an alternative place to download the software this evening without luck. Does anyone know where I can find a copy of SDR-Sharp at. Thanks! Edited May 2, 2014 by NuclearC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james92 Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 I found a mirror at http://66.172.11.41/ and this is the site I got it from http://www.rtl-sdr.com/rtl-sdr-quick-start-guide/ hope that helps :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 (edited) See this thread: http://forums.radioreference.com/software-defined-radio/290177-has-creator-sdrsharp-closed-shop.html TL;DR The guy is probably working hard on what looks like a commercial solution on http://www.airspy.com and with the development of SDR# itself he got burned by a few people for denying a contribution on technical merit... Yeah, the nerve of some people... Read the thread for a couple of backup download links to SDR#. Edited May 2, 2014 by Cooper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TN.Frank Posted May 2, 2014 Author Share Posted May 2, 2014 Since I switched to Manjaro (Arch based Distro) getting Gqrx is a non-issue. I just go into Octopi and check for "gqrx" in yaourt and it'll use cmake and whatever else it needs to to configure and set up Gqrx for me. Easy as pie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NuclearC Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 James92 - Thanks for the mirror link. Much appreciated. Cooper - Thanks for the thread. Nice to meet everyone! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james92 Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 (edited) Was cruising the net today found a lovely ham setup http://50.59.92.11:8080/ Edited May 20, 2014 by james92 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD6W Posted May 31, 2014 Share Posted May 31, 2014 hmmm, nothing here... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted May 31, 2014 Share Posted May 31, 2014 Yeah, when he posted it there was a big desk with all sorts of hardware on there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badscr Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 i had the same problem with osmosdr here is what i did that got a install git clone git://git.osmocom.org/gr-osmosdrcd gr-osmosdr/ git checkout standalone mkdir buildcd build/cmake ../makesudo make installsudo ldconfig Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badrigm Posted October 27, 2014 Share Posted October 27, 2014 Hi, IF you are trying a PC Based SDR then check this Device and manual on how to start with using SDR Devices in Different IDE's. http://agile-sdr-solutions.com/SDR_STARTER_KIT.html http://www.agile-sdr-solutions.com/SDR-STARTER-KIT.pdf Regards, Badrinath GM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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