dfu-programmer: no device present.

[shofti31]

So I am trying to flash new firmware on my ducky and I am having issues with dfu-programmer finding the device under Linux. It works perfectly fine on one of my machines that dual boots windows 10 but I cannot get it to find the device under Linux. I tried this on Archlinux, Debian and Kali with no avail.

 

   root@Cerberus comhack #dfu-programmer at32uc3b1256 dump >dump.bincmd                                                                                                                                   
dfu-programmer: no device present.

Dmesg see the ducky just fine:

[164578.733853] usb 3-1.1: new full-speed USB device number 12 using xhci_hcd

[164578.832128] input: ATMEL AVR HID Keyboard as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-1/3-1.1/3-1.1:1.0/0003:03EB:2401.0009/input/input30

[164578.884027] hid-generic 0003:03EB:2401.0009: input,hidraw2: USB HID v1.11 Keyboard [ATMEL AVR HID Keyboard] on usb-0000:00:14.0-1.1/input0

I did notice one thing though. When I insert the ducky while holding down the button, it stays red on Linux but does not light up on Windows.

I have been researching for about an hour now with no luck. I do notice that most of the documentation and github repos for the ducky are from 2013 or so. Is most of the stuff still compatible or what?

Any ideas? Thanks

 

[UnixSecLab]

Did you compile dfu-programmer from the tarball on the github wiki, or did you install it as a package with (for example) apt-get?  I compiled mine on Linux Mint 17, but I had to do some modification of the Makefile (required) and configure.ac (not sure if this was required, but I did the modification, anyway) based on some errors I was getting, and google-fu search results around those errors.

The steps I took were to download the tarball linked to from the wiki:

https://github.com/hak5darren/USB-Rubber-Ducky/wiki/Flashing-ducky

Unpack the tarball, then change directory into it.

tar xvfz dfu-programmer-0.5.4.tar.gz && cd dfu-programmer-0.5.4

Modify the configure.ac:

sed -i.bak -e ‘s/LDFLAGS/LIBS/g’ ./configure.ac

Run configure as normal:

./configure

Modify the src/Makefile:

sed -i.bak -ne ‘/^LDFLAGS =/{h;s/LDFLAGS = \(.*\)/LIBS = \1/;x;s/LDFLAGS =.*/LDFLAGS =/};/^LIBS = .*/{x;};p’

Compile:

make

Everything worked fine after that.  I did have to install the missing libusb-dev and libusb-1.0.0-dev packages before doing all of the above.

sudo apt-get install libusb-dev libusb-1.0.0-dev

 

[shofti31]

Actually I installed them both via archlinux and debian/kali package managers. I will manually compile when I get home this evening and post my results.

Thanks

[shofti31]

Well I tried your flag but I got an error on modifying the src/makefile:

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root@Europa:~/Downloads/dfu-programmer-0.5.4# sed -i.bak -ne ‘/^LDFLAGS =/{h;s/LDFLAGS = \(.*\)/LIBS = \1/;x;s/LDFLAGS =.*/LDFLAGS =/};/^LIBS = .*/{x;};p'
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `}'

It looks as though you closed all of your arguments so I dunno why it is complaining about }

[UnixSecLab]

18 minutes ago, shofti31 said:

Well I tried your flag but I got an error on modifying the src/makefile:

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root@Europa:~/Downloads/dfu-programmer-0.5.4# sed -i.bak -ne ‘/^LDFLAGS =/{h;s/LDFLAGS = \(.*\)/LIBS = \1/;x;s/LDFLAGS =.*/LDFLAGS =/};/^LIBS = .*/{x;};p'
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `}'

It looks as though you closed all of your arguments so I dunno why it is complaining about }

It could be a copy/pasta error (where the noodles got overcooked.)  What you pasted to show as an example of what you tried looks like it has a back tick ` instead of a single quote ' to open the sed statement (right after the -ne flag.)  There should only be single quotes in the example, so try cleaning those up and give it another shot, maybe?

I should have vetted my example before pasting it here.  I did a raw copy from my blog, and the quotes probably got mangled on my end when I pasted.  I should have pasted into something like notepad first, then re-copied to clipboard to paste here.  You might want to do similar, maybe.  Good luck!

Also, you need to put "src/Makefile" at the end of that sed statement on the same line.  I meant to include it, but somehow missed it.  Sorry.

Edited September 12, 2016 by UnixSecLab

[shofti31]

Sounds good, thanks.

[shofti31]

That was the only line I didn't type out but I just did and the syntax still isn't correct:

 

root@Europa:~/Downloads/dfu-programmer-0.5.4# sed -i.bak -ne '/^LDFLAGS =/{h;s/LDFLAGS -.*/LDFLAGS =/};/^LIBS = .*/{x};p'
sed: no input files

Here is line by line what I did http://ix.io/1mmH

 

 

[UnixSecLab]

4 minutes ago, shofti31 said:

That was the only line I didn't type out but I just did and the syntax still isn't correct:

 

root@Europa:~/Downloads/dfu-programmer-0.5.4# sed -i.bak -ne '/^LDFLAGS =/{h;s/LDFLAGS -.*/LDFLAGS =/};/^LIBS = .*/{x};p'
sed: no input files

Here is line by line what I did http://ix.io/1mmH

 

 

Yep.  I edited my previous comment twice to get my full thought out, and you had already run off before I got the last part out which is to include the src/Makefile on the end so that it knows what file to modify :)  Make sure that's an "M" and not an "m" in the Makefile bit, since case matters.

[shofti31]

Thanks again

[shofti31]

Ok, I got past that part but now I am getting a bunch of usb_* errors but I can figure those out on my own. 

Thanks

[UnixSecLab]

Do you have lib-usb-dev and libusb-dev and libusb-1.0.0-dev installed? You might need to install those, then re-run ./configure && make.

sudo apt-get install libusb-dev libusb-1.0.0-dev

If you have those installed, you may need to paste the errors so we can see what you see.

[shofti31]

Yes, they are installed:

    root@Europa:~/Downloads/dfu-programmer-0.5.4# sudo apt-get install libusb-dev libusb-1.0.0-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'libusb-1.0-0-dev' for regex 'libusb-1.0.0-dev'
libusb-1.0-0-dev is already the newest version (2:1.0.20-1).
libusb-dev is already the newest version (2:0.1.12-30).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded.

Here is the output from make:

   root@Europa:~/Downloads/dfu-programmer-0.5.4# make
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory '/root/Downloads/dfu-programmer-0.5.4'
Making all in src
make[2]: Entering directory '/root/Downloads/dfu-programmer-0.5.4/src'
gcc -Wall -g -O2   -o dfu-programmer main.o arguments.o atmel.o commands.o dfu.o intel_hex.o util.o  
main.o: In function `main':
/root/Downloads/dfu-programmer-0.5.4/src/main.c:62: undefined reference to `usb_init'
/root/Downloads/dfu-programmer-0.5.4/src/main.c:110: undefined reference to `usb_release_interface'
/root/Downloads/dfu-programmer-0.5.4/src/main.c:123: undefined reference to `usb_close'
/root/Downloads/dfu-programmer-0.5.4/src/main.c:81: undefined reference to `usb_set_debug'
dfu.o: In function `dfu_transfer_out':
/root/Downloads/dfu-programmer-0.5.4/src/dfu.c:845: undefined reference to `usb_control_msg'
/root/Downloads/dfu-programmer-0.5.4/src/dfu.c:845: undefined reference to `usb_control_msg'
dfu.o: In function `dfu_transfer_in':
/root/Downloads/dfu-programmer-0.5.4/src/dfu.c:872: undefined reference to `usb_control_msg'
/root/Downloads/dfu-programmer-0.5.4/src/dfu.c:872: undefined reference to `usb_control_msg'
dfu.o: In function `dfu_transfer_out':
/root/Downloads/dfu-programmer-0.5.4/src/dfu.c:845: undefined reference to `usb_control_msg'
dfu.o:/root/Downloads/dfu-programmer-0.5.4/src/dfu.c:872: more undefined references to `usb_control_msg' follow
dfu.o: In function `dfu_device_init':
/root/Downloads/dfu-programmer-0.5.4/src/dfu.c:475: undefined reference to `usb_find_busses'
/root/Downloads/dfu-programmer-0.5.4/src/dfu.c:476: undefined reference to `usb_find_devices'
/root/Downloads/dfu-programmer-0.5.4/src/dfu.c:479: undefined reference to `usb_get_busses'
/root/Downloads/dfu-programmer-0.5.4/src/dfu.c:492: undefined reference to `usb_open'
/root/Downloads/dfu-programmer-0.5.4/src/dfu.c:494: undefined reference to `usb_set_configuration'
/root/Downloads/dfu-programmer-0.5.4/src/dfu.c:495: undefined reference to `usb_claim_interface'
/root/Downloads/dfu-programmer-0.5.4/src/dfu.c:506: undefined reference to `usb_release_interface'
/root/Downloads/dfu-programmer-0.5.4/src/dfu.c:507: undefined reference to `usb_close'
dfu.o: In function `dfu_make_idle':
/root/Downloads/dfu-programmer-0.5.4/src/dfu.c:816: undefined reference to `usb_reset'
dfu.o: In function `dfu_device_init':
/root/Downloads/dfu-programmer-0.5.4/src/dfu.c:516: undefined reference to `usb_close'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Makefile:235: recipe for target 'dfu-programmer' failed
make[2]: *** [dfu-programmer] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/root/Downloads/dfu-programmer-0.5.4/src'
Makefile:264: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/root/Downloads/dfu-programmer-0.5.4'
Makefile:200: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2
root@Europa:~/Downloads/dfu-programmer-0.5.4# 

 

[UnixSecLab]

Those were the errors I got before I found the fixes I listed when I originally did this.  I did this on Linux Mint, which is Ubuntu and thus Debian based.  Something might be "off" from all of the troubleshooting you were doing, so the best I can suggest at this point is to do the following:

1) Delete the dfu-programmer-0.5.4 directory.

2) Untar the tarball to get a fully clean slate.

3) Do the "sed" to fix the configure file.

4) Run ./configure.

5) Do the "sed" to fix the src/Makefile file.

6) Run make

If it still fails, you might try blowing it away again, and do your ./configure and make without the sed modifications and see if it compiles on your system.  If you still have issues, I'll gather more information about the binary I built when I get back to work tomorrow (in case there are other libraries missing.)  Sorry this is giving you so much trouble.

[shofti31]

Trying now.

[shofti31]

Everything is working. No errors on make or make install and dfu-programmer is working with my ducky.

 

Thanks again

[UnixSecLab]

33 minutes ago, shofti31 said:

Everything is working. No errors on make or make install and dfu-programmer is working with my ducky.

 

Thanks again

Sweet.  Glad you got it working!  Sorry I gave muddled instructions the first time around.  I'll try to pay more attention in future ;)

[shofti31]

Not a problem, I appreciate it. I learned years ago that Open source is all about giving back and I do the same thing through support (Google+ Communities and a few forums I admin). 

 

Thanks