Dear Paul and Cianed, Thank you very much for Your response and the time you devoted to reply to my question! I do appreciate it.
During the weekend I will try my best to install the upgrade, and I hope I will manage it. Yes, for someone like me it is like a rocket science. Especially, if you work in a Chinese Traditional Medicine area, like me.. Which is a little far from IT and RF's. To say at least. :D Thank you again! Sincerely, Iluta On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Paul Connolly <[email protected]> wrote: > Upgrading the firmware is not rocket science, it is basically two commands > one to upgrade the firmware and one to upgrade the CPLD code. > > 1> goto https://github.com/mossmann/hackrf > 2> click on "releases" > 3> download the latest release (at the time of writing this is "release > 2015.07.2", so I'm clicking on "hackrf-2015.07.2.zip" ) > 4> extract the files > 5> the binary firmware and binary CPLD are in the firmware-bin folder > For a normal upgrade these would be called "hackrf_cpld_default.xsvf" > (CPLD code) and "hackrf_one_usb_rom_to_ram.bin" (ARM firmware) > > 6> Compile and install the tools under Linux as described here (If you > have not installed them already) > https://github.com/mossmann/hackrf/tree/master/host or host/README.md > inside the zip file. If "hackrf_info" works then you have some version of > them installed already. > > Following the example given here: > https://github.com/mossmann/hackrf/wiki/Updating-Firmware the two > commands using the firmware binary release would be: > > Confirm that your hackrf works before attempting to upgrade the firmware: > $ hackrf_info > $ hackrf_transfer -r /dev/null -n 100000000 > (if both of the above commands exited with no error messages (e.g. > "hackrf_open() > failed: HACKRF_ERROR_NOT_FOUND (-5)") then your HackRF should be working > fine, so it should be safe to proceed) > $ hackrf_spiflash -w firmware-bin/hackrf_one_usb_rom_to_ram.bin > (Once it has finished with no errors - unplugging the HackRF and plugging > it back in) > $ hackrf_cpldjtag -x firmware-bin/hackrf_cpld_default.xsvf > (when it is finished with no errors - unplugging the HackRF and plugging > it back in) > > (confirm that the upgrade worked, that the version is what you expected) > $ hackrf_info > > And even if you messed up really badly, there is a special DFU mode > hardcoded into a ROM inside the ARM CPU that you can return your HackRF to > a working state (This mode only needs to be used if "lsusb" does not > display the HackRF vendor and product ID "1d50:6089" when plugged into > Linux). It is not quite as easy as just the above two commands, it is how > they install the firmware in the factory see: > https://github.com/mossmann/hackrf/wiki/Updating-Firmware#only-if-necessary-recovering-the-spi-flash-firmware > > If you were using Ubuntu/Debian/RPi to upgrade the firmware, although out > of date, the following has a very detailed gist of what you need to do: > http://314256.blogspot.com/2014/09/RPi.upgrade.H1.firmware.html > > > On 10/11/2015 23:13, Iluta V wrote: > > Thank you, Sukandar, for your good wish to help and the link. > > I still wonder if here are people around who have made the firmware update > to 2015.07., and could therefore suggest how to do it, so I could update my > HackRF as well. :) > > Otherwise what's the use to talk about far away or expensive IT and SDR > conferences (e.g. Troopers.de charge approx 2,000 eur per entry per > person), if the most basic step by step firmware update instructions for > the latest firmware cannot be found online? Well, just disregard above > rhetorics. > > Sincerely, > > Iluta > > On Tuesday, November 10, 2015, Sukandar Kartadinata <[email protected]> > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 10.11.2015, at 16:34, Iluta V <[email protected]> <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hey, Sukandar, > > Your answer doesn't help me at all. > > sorry then > I’ve never done the update myself, so won’t try to compile a list of > > commands that I’m not certain will help you > > Michael goes thru the update process in #5 of his video lessons. > Maybe that helps somewhat…http://greatscottgadgets.com/sdr/5/ > > Please read my email very carefully...!!!...!!! > > I hope that those who are using HackRF and are NOT programmers or from > > IT, will not get stuck or be doomed with an old HackRF version. > > Still looking for guide instructions how to do firmware update similar > > like in an attached link. > > Iluta > > > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Sukandar Kartadinata <[email protected]> > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 10.11.2015, at 16:20, Iluta V <[email protected]> <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi, everybody, > > I wonder if there is detailed info out there on how to update HackRF > > firmware to 2015.07. and also how to update CLPD and USB files as well. > > Maybe there is a page with instructions on how to do the update? > > how about this?https://github.com/mossmann/hackrf/wiki/Updating-Firmware > > I spent some time looking for it, and found only instructions by Rich > > Sanders for the old version: > > https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00174.html > > So my questions is if there are similar complete instructions for > > firmware update with all command lines out there at all? > > I would be glad if someone could point me in the right direction. :) > > Sincerely, > > Iluta > _______________________________________________ > HackRF-dev mailing > [email protected]https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/hackrf-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > HackRF-dev mailing > [email protected]https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/hackrf-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > HackRF-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/hackrf-dev > >
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