[Openbts-discuss] First installation problems

[Balthasar I. <ba...@in...>]

Hi all,

I just installed this for the first time on a ubuntu 14.04 machine
that serves other SDR needs well, i.e. B200 connected via USB3 works
very well. Not so with OpenBTS unfortunately.

I followed the O'Reilly instructions to the iota: git, clone.sh and
switch to v5, then build.sh B200, install the dpkg's and am now stuck
at the "getting the hardware to work" step: the transceiver executable
is not doing what it should by the looks of it.

The first problem I had is there seems to be no way to tell
transceiver which B200 to use - I have two connected to this system.
transceiver -h does nothing, nor is there any text in the book
describing operation of this. Odd. I temporarily solved that by
disconnecting one - then the transceiver loads and initialises the
B200. But then nothing happens. No lights come on, nor does anything
show up on the terminal after the standard messages it prints when
starting up the B200. It stops on the "Performing timer loopback
tests" and that's that.

Can anyone provide some help here? Can transceiver be run in verbose/debug mode?

Thanks

- Balt