openBTS

[bnt2025]

ah its /var/run/TMSITable.db by default. Too many parameters in openbts.db!
Thanks for your help.

You mentions that yate worked, did YateBTS work on the up and downlink?

[dk5ras]

Ahh, we must not mix up things

I am only using yate as a SIP PABX, not the yatebts project. I have one virtual machine with a normal OpenBTS setup together with libusrp and a USRP1 radio, and another VM with OpenBTS and a rangenetworks RAD1 radio. Both with identical config, both with OpenBTS in its original version and yate as switch. On this second VM I installed this nuand OpenBTS version into a second directory, and only this one does not work.

Yate only is responsible for phone calls, phones of course do register with or without yate.

So it clearly has to do something with the bladeRF radio, other radios do their job fine, I can use them like normal public GSM BTSs.

Nuand calls us to test OpenBTS, but where is the channel to exchange experiences, if not here?

[blagoja]

Hello,

When I start the OpenBTS (sudo ./OpenBTS) i got the following output:

1395786852.767746 3074549504:
Starting the system...
ALERT 3074549504 23:34:17.7 TRXManager.cpp:434:powerOff: POWEROFF failed with status -1
Using internal clock reference
EMERG 3074316032 23:34:18.2 bladeRFDevice.cppopen: bladeRF transceiver only supports SuperSpeed mode at the moment
ALERT 3074316032 23:34:18.2 runTransceiver.cpp:160:main: Transceiver exiting...

EMERG 3073973056 23:34:18.2 OpenBTS.cpp:156:startTransceiver: Transceiver quit with status 256. Exiting.

Do you know what could be the problem?

The printout of the version command in bladeRF-cli -i is :
bladeRF> version

bladeRF-cli version: 0.10.7-git-b876a96-ppasaucy
libbladeRF version: 0.14.0-git-b876a96-ppasaucy

Firmware version: 1.6.1-git-b7e6642
FPGA version: 0.0.3

I'm loading the fpga with /openbts/trunk/Transceiver52M/hostedx40bts.rbf

Any help apprecated!

With Best Regards,
Blagoja

[dk5ras]

Look at this:

>EMERG 3074316032 23:34:18.2 bladeRFDevice.cppopen: bladeRF transceiver only supports SuperSpeed mode at the moment

Obviously you do not have an USB3.0 or port, or the USB3.0 connection is not functioning properly...

Ralph.

[blagoja]

Yes I don't have USB 3.0 port on my Laptop.

I didn't know that USB 3.0 port is a requirement for the OpenBTS.

Thanks for the provided info.

I have found info regarding the OpenBTS, bladeRF and USB 3.0 here:

https://github.com/Nuand/bladeRF/issues/227

junik wrote:
"The bladeRF functions on USB 2.0 and USB 3.0; I'm not sure what's going on in the OpenBTS code that requires this restriction. If I had to guess, I would expect it to have something to do with some buffers being tailored to the USB SuperSpeed MaxPacketSize of 1024 bytes, as opposed to the USB Hi-Speed MaxPacketSize of 512 bytes... don't quote me on that though."

[veranson]

Iam runing OpenBTS

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[ERROR] Failed to access peripheral: LIBUSB_ERROR_NO_DEVICE
[ERROR] Failed to access peripheral: LIBUSB_ERROR_NO_DEVICE
[ERROR] Failed to access peripheral: LIBUSB_ERROR_NO_DEVICE
[ERROR] Failed to access peripheral: LIBUSB_ERROR_NO_DEVICE
[ERROR] Failed to access peripheral: LIBUSB_ERROR_NO_DEVICE
[ERROR] Failed to access peripheral: LIBUSB_ERROR_NO_DEVICE

1396338345.637254 140253908068160: 
use the OpenBTSCLI utility to access CLI

EMERG 140253906519808 11:46:55.6 TRXManager.cpp:102:clockHandler: TRX clock interface timed out, assuming TRX is dead.

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bladeRF> version

  bladeRF-cli version:        0.10.7-git-5af73b8
  libbladeRF version:         0.14.0-git-5af73b8

  Firmware version:           1.6.1-git-b7e6642
  FPGA version:               0.0.3

tell me why?

[bnt2025]

Just make sure you have libusb installed with this;

sudo apt-get install libusb-1.0-0-dev libusb-1.0.0

(I am assuming you are running this on a Linux based OS)

[veranson]

install
libusb-1.0-0.
libusb-1.0-0-dbg.
libusb-1.0-0-dev.

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use the OpenBTSCLI utility to access CLI

[ERROR] Failed to access peripheral: LIBUSB_ERROR_TIMEOUT
[ERROR] Failed to access peripheral: LIBUSB_ERROR_TIMEOUT
[ERROR] Failed to access peripheral: LIBUSB_ERROR_TIMEOUT
[ERROR] Failed to access peripheral: LIBUSB_ERROR_TIMEOUT

[ERROR] Failed to access peripheral: LIBUSB_ERROR_TIMEOUT
transceiver: /home/veranson/bladeRF/host/libraries/libbladeRF/src/backend/libusb.c:2064: submit_transfer: Assertion `stream_data->transfer_status[stream_data->i] == TRANSFER_AVAIL' failed.
EMERG 140208831444736 13:00:55.2 OpenBTS.cpp:156:startTransceiver: Transceiver quit with status 134. Exiting.
DatagramSocket::read() failed: Bad file descriptor

[veranson]

strange. There is a suspicion that the fault controller usb 3.0 (Express card 54)
Taken another system with usb 3.0 controller NEC D720200F1 all is well and there are no problems

[dk5ras]

Last changes to bladeRF did not change anything regarding non-working OpenBTS, but broke gqrx usage and maybe other stuff See my other topic...

Ralph.

[Olaf]

Did anybody get it working ?
Compiling and installing went like a charm...I see my GSM network on my phone but can't log in...
Tried several arfcn's...nope...
As for legal issues...working with a dummy load

[Olaf]

I did follow this "tutorial" but got some strange noise figures...( http://code.google.com/p/umtrx/wiki/RunningOpenBTS )

[lpcdma]

I have the same problem.

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OpenBTS> EMERG 3271:3278 2014/04/14 20:25:27.3 TRXManager.cpp:101:clockHandler: TRX clock interface timed out, assuming TRX is dead.
Aborted (core dumped)

Like can't solve this problem.

[veranson]

https://github.com/Nuand/dev

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git clone https://github.com/Nuand/dev
Cloning into 'dev'...
remote: Counting objects: 134, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (47/47), done.
remote: Total 134 (delta 87), reused 134 (delta 87)
Receiving objects: 100% (134/134), 38.00 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (87/87), done.
Checking connectivity... done

veranson@veranson-VirtualBox:~$ cd dev/

veranson@veranson-VirtualBox:~/dev$ ./clone.sh 
# cloning asterisk from RangeNetworks
git clone [email protected]:RangeNetworks/asterisk.git
Cloning into 'asterisk'...
The authenticity of host 'github.com (192.30.252.129)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is 16:27:ac:a5:76:28:2d:36:63:1b:56:4d:eb:df:a6:48.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Warning: Permanently added 'github.com,192.30.252.129' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
[b]Permission denied (publickey).[/b]
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.
# ERROR: command failed!
veranson@veranson-VirtualBox:~/dev$

[blagoja]

Hi,

I have the same problem while clonning.

The solution is presented on this page: https://help.github.com/articles/generating-ssh-keys

BR,
Blagoja