unable to get BladeRF A4 to work

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L07tB0y
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unable to get BladeRF A4 to work

Post by L07tB0y »

I have tried a MacBook pro with High Sierra 10.13.6 and macports.

Tried a windows VM with the latest windows client from nuand website.

Tried Kali Linux with apt-get and gnuradio

the thing that is not working for me on Mac and Liux is osmodr it will not compile or install etc and I have tried everything I can in my limited Linux knowledge. I believe this is the link that acts as a driver for the A4 board to get it to work with gnuradio?

Ideally I would like to get it to work on a Mac but I would be open to getting it working on any OS at this point.

I have called and left voicemail to Nuand support as well if I do find something that works I will write up the process that worked for me and post here.
bglod
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Re: unable to get BladeRF A4 to work

Post by bglod »

OSX is experiencing some GNU Radio issues at the moment; we are working on this. Windows and Linux are currently working. I recommend Linux from a general debuggability perspective though.

We introduced several changes to gr-osmosdr recently and your Linux distribution's package manager may not have the latest and greatest version. You'll need to build gr-osmosdr, gqrx, and GNU Radio from source. PyBOMBS is a "package manager" or "build system" for GNU Radio that you may want to look into to make this process significantly easier. We have a short PyBOMBS guide on our Wiki.
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