I'd also be interested to know if anyone has attempted to build ASL3.
I believe getting the PTT/COS working on the CM108 device could be
interesting.
M0ZAH
On 14/12/2024 01:08, deich...@placebonol.com wrote:
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>
