Radioberry installation failure

[w9ran]

I'm trying to install Radioberry on a brand-new Pi 4.0 Bullseye system that was created using the Pi Imager, with only a pi user account. Radioberry hardware is V 2.0 Beta 4. Followed the installation process here: https://github.com/pa3gsb/Radioberry-2.x/releases

Testing the installation with sudo modinfo radioberry fails with modinfo: ERROR: Module radioberry not found.

Examination of the install script terminal shows one problem when installing dependencies:

--- Installing dependency: linux-headers-rpi Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package linux-headers-rpi

The driver installation fails as shown in the terminal snippet below: (I can provide the complete terminal contents if anyone would like to look at it).

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Installing Radioberry gateware Cyclone 10 CL025... Radioberry gateware Cyclone 10 CL025 installed.

Installing Radioberry driver... modprobe: FATAL: Module radioberry not found. make[1]: /lib/modules/6.1.21-v8+/build: No such file or directory. Stop. make: [Makefile:6: radioberry.ko] Error 2 cp: cannot stat 'radioberry.ko': No such file or directory modprobe: FATAL: Module radioberry not found in directory /lib/modules/6.1.21-v8+ chmod: cannot access '/dev/radioberry': No such file or directory modinfo: ERROR: Module radioberry not found. Radioberry driver installed. Installing Radioberry firmware... (lots of gcc warnings omitted) Radioberry firmware installed. Installing radioberry service ...

Radioberry service installed.

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My understanding is that the radioberry installation script does everything but the needed kernel module is missing. and I'm not sure what to do about it. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

I have installed pihpsdr and proved that it works using a different H-L on the network, but with it disconnected, discovery naturally comes up empty.

Thanks and 73,

Bob W9RAN

[SpudGunMan]

I found that .. in a "new install" you need to try adding "arm_64bit=0" to config.txt, reboot and try again

specifically your kernel header directories like build/ are missing and the automation script for driver install on this project will hang and prevent build of .ko

[RichNeese]

Iss there a plan to fix this for arm64. as its default now. we should noth ave to disable arm64

[SpudGunMan]

In my very little research this is a workaround for a rpi-foundation OS decisions.

The install script here is performing automation tasks, while a check could be put in easily...

The larger issue is, where is the proper bits and folders not part of the kernel-headers deb in the first place..

(I think from my limited digging)

[w9ran]

That definitely helped - the installation completed and I now get a proper response from modprobe. I can start and stop radioberry using the command line and it shows the gateware is loaded (ver 73.3) - but unfortunately the radioberry isn't working. All I get is this screen, with no audio or signals present and "sequence error" displayed:

Any help would be appreciated! Bob

[RichNeese]

Still missing line-headers-rpi . So the compile is incomplete.

On Aug 31, 2023, at 11:59 AM, w9ran @.***> wrote:

That definitely helped - the installation completed and I now get a proper response from modprobe. I can start and stop radioberry using the command line and it shows the gateware is loaded (ver 73.3) - but unfortunately the radioberry isn't working. All I get is this screen, with no audio or signals present and "sequence error" displayed: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3194542/264704473-f15ff9e9-9aa1-4c76-8ddc-0d910e405262.png Any help would be appreciated! Bob

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[w9ran]

Arggh! You're right: E: Unable to locate package linux-headers-rpi So on to that issue... Bob

[SpudGunMan]

Can you connect with spark or thetis ?

[w9ran]

Sheesh, my troubleshooting brain is half-asleep today, I hadn't thought of that. But YES I can! Thetis was chugging somewhat but Spark runs nicely with it (probably just the different sample rates). As RichNeese pointed out, there's still a missing package so hopefully once that is corrected it will run locally as well. Many thanks! Bob

[w9ran]

The installation terminal still has this error: E: Unable to locate package linux-headers-rpi

I tried to update this package but it says the latest is already installed: sudo apt install raspberrypi-kernel-headers - evidently that's a different package. Evidently linux-headers-rpi is needed for compiling a kernel module.

Both Radioberry and pihpsdr on this Pi4 work separately - but not at the same time. I can control the Radioberry from another application such as Spark, and I can control a different Hermes-Lite from pihpsdr on the Radioberry Pi - but as soon as I try to do both at the same time, the stream locks up and the Radioberry shows a solid waterfall spike. I have to reboot the Pi in order to clear this condition.

The linux-headers-rpi error is the only one I can find - any suggestions about how to fix that would be appreciated, thanks. Bob