[hpsdr] difficulties with ghpsdr3 and ubuntu 10.04

[Erich Heinzle]

I fired up a old copy of ghpsdr customised for my netbook and it worked with the HPSDR over USB.

I then struggled to find an SVN for the latest ghspdr version, as the ones listed in the wiki are not responding.

Thinking it was time to properly try ghpsdr3, I went to

https://github.com/alexlee188/ghpsdr3-alex/blob/master/README and installed the relevant packages needed (except for qtmobility-dev which could not install/be found)

I then used the ppa from sudo add-apt-repository ppa:andrew-montefusco/ghpsdr3 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ghpsdr3 to install ghpsdr3

qtradio launched but was unable to fire up the HPSDR

I sucked down ghpsdr3-2.0 and tried to ./configure

I was told "The libusb-0.1 library and header file required to build ghpsdr3."

and the ./configure output mentioned

"checking for library containing usb_init... no"

I tried to install libusb-0.1-4 and was told

"libusb-0.1-4 is already the newest version."

thinking the missing qtmobility-dev package might be to blame somehow

I did:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install <package name>

I installed qtmobility-dev

this de-installed ghpsdr3!!

on trying to re-install ghpsdr3 I am told:

"Depends: libqt4-multimedia but it is not going to be installed"

the libqt4-multimedia broke/was deinstalled when installing the qtmobility-dev backport

I was now worse off than when I began.

There is some chatter about broken dependencies with debian Qt library upgrades https://bugs.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/+bug/629349

I deinstalled everything Qt4 related I also removed the ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports source

and was then able to reinstall GHPSDR3 and the required qt4 packages

On firing up hpsdr-server, it sees the HPSDR, but does not seem to be able to feed the QtRadio app. I found that I had to fire up hpsdr-server while in a directory containing the rbf and hex files for it to find them.

QtRadio says connection refused when I try to connect to the server under the receiver - > connect menu.

I am not sure if there is a firmware issue, as it seems to bomb out while trying to load the ozy fpga (See attached output)

Ozy FX2 20090524 Ozy Sw v 17

mercury v 29

penelope v 12

ozy is a fully populated board that can also handle an SDR-1000, from Gerd, as is Mercury

After quitting the hpsdr-server, I can fire up the GTK ghpsdr software and the HSPDR works.

Any ideas on how I might get ghpsdr3 "server" and "Qtradio" working on lucid ubuntu? I have tried power cycling the HPSDR after quitting ghpsdr and before running QtRadio and vice versa.

Thanks for any pointers.... could it be a firmware version issue?

Erich Heinzle VK5HSE

here's a dump of hpsdr-server's output

Listening for TCP connections on port 11000 loading ozy firmware: ozyfw-sdr1k.hex loading ozy fpga: Ozy_Janus.rbf 120049 bytes transferred. ozy_load_fpga: failed @ FL_END Ozy FX2 version: 20090524 ozy_prime: configure=6 sent to Ozy:(0) [0000] 7F7F7F00D9001804 0000000000000000 [0010] 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 [0020] 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 [0030] 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 [0040] 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 [0050] 0000000000000000 0000000000000000

Snip ... there's more but the mail server spat the dummy.....