Re: Problem seeing Hackrf One Hardware properly going through VirtualBox

Okay, this output looks better -  it appears you now have the libraries installed.

I don't understand the output

   Board ID Number: 2

If you have more then 1 board installed, unplug all the boards except for 1 board.

To run multiple boards you need to use serial numbers - but you need to get hackrf_info working correctly.

Type

   groups | grep plugdev

If it doesn't print anything, you need to add yourself to the group plugdev.

To do that use

   sudo usermod -a -G plugdev <userid>

where <userid> is your login name.

Then logout and then login again and type

  groups

and you should see an entry for plugdev.

And then run

  hackrf_info

-- Cinaed

On 8/12/22 09:20, George Edwards wrote:

Hello GNURadio Community, 

I designed an FM receiver in Gnuradio-Companion to receive an FM broadcast signal from the Hackrf One. I am running Gnuradio-Companion 3.9 on Ubuntu 20.04 inside VirtualBox 6.1. I installed the Hackrf software on Ubuntu and set VirtualBox USB port to see the Scott Gadget Hackrf One. Problem is: when I execute the command "hackrf_info" in the Ubuntu Terminal, it reads the Board ID, Firmware Version, and Part Number, but says the hackrf_info version and libhackrf version are "unknown". This is a snapshot of the terminal response from executing the hackrf_info query:

I cannot find any info online to solve this problem (allow the Terminal query "hackrf_info" to return all the board information). As a result when I run the GRC flow graph, it fails because it cannot open hackrf. I would appreciate any suggestions.

Thank you!

George