From a fellow ham thanks for the information. On another note anyone tried to build Allstarlink on OpenBSD? If not any other repeater controller software?
73 diana KI5PGJ On December 13, 2024 1:18:58 PM MST, Paul Tagliamonte <paul...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 10:16:34PM -0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: >> > Currently using a HAM specific Linux distro but I'd like to return to >> > OpenBSD. >> >> I don't have one but I believe hackrf has a bit of support. There >> are a couple of other relevant things in ports, however in general >> you're probably better off sticking to Linux for this. SDRs usually >> want userland support for USB devices and that doesn't work well in >> OpenBSD. > >I have a bucket of SDRs i've tried on OpenBSD. The rtl-sdr does work >under OpenBSD, but the USB stack is particularly fiddly which is a >recurring source of weird hard-to-debug issues. > >I've tried a rtl, hackrf, usrp (b210, b200), airspyhf, and a few others, >and the only which I had any meaningful luck with was the rtl. I >wouldn't suggest this route except in so far as you're looking to >improve the codebase of the SDR libraries or brave enough to work on the >OpenBSD USB stack. > >I sent a patch to USRP upstream that fixed building from source a while >back, so the USRP library *can* work well enough to get metadata back >from the radios, but it won't actually work because (I think?) of the >usb transfer code. > >I posted a while back[1] after digging in a bit to what was causing the >USB issues. I did not isolate the cause, nevermind fix it. > >I still process some RF data on an OpenBSD (mostly for fun/sport) -- but >the only reliable way is to run the radio on a Linux box, and serve IQ >over the network. OpenBSD's network handling code compared to the USB >handling code is a lot more ... robust. > >Fondly, > paultag > K3XEC > > >[1]: <ZCHKm9h7YYQiE4Uc@nysos> > >-- >:wq >
