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laforge, 02/19/2016 10:47 PM
update with information about building openbsc and mISDN only being required for E1

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== Debian HowTo ==
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This page will describe the entire installation process of OpenBSC under Debian Linux.
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This tutorial is based on Debian Netinstall 5.0 but will work with other Debian versions.
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To be able to access your OpenBSC machine easily from a remote Terminal, install ssh.
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This can be easily done with "apt-get install ssh".
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=== mISDN in case of BS-11 ===
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If you want to use a E1-based BTS (like the BS-11), you will need to install mISDN.
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'''If you have an IP/Ethernet based BTS (like the ip.access nanoBTS), you don't need this section!'''
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Because OpenBSC's E1 support relies on mISDN (named ISDN4Linux before) and hfcmulti as an interface to the BS11, it has to be integrated as a module into the kernel.
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First of all you will need to download the 2.6.31 Linux kernel from [http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/].
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Change to '''/usr/src/''' on your OpenBSC machine.
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Then simply do a '''wget [http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.31.tar.bz2]'''
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Unpack the archive:  '''tar --bzip2 -xvf linux-2.6.31.tar.bz2'''
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and create a symlink to fit the Linux standard conventions: '''ln -s linux-2.6.30 linux'''.[[BR]]
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Now change to linux-2.6.30 typing '''cd linux-2.6.30'''.
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You are ready now to prepare for the main part:
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Install some tools needed to build the kernel.
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'''apt-get install libncurses5-dev kernel-package'''
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Now configure the kernel modules with '''make menuconfig'''
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Include the ''mISDN'' modules and ''hfcmulti /hfc e1 drivers''.
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Save the new configuration to '''.config''' .
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You can now try to build the Debian kernel package: '''make-kpkg linux-image --initrd --revision=openbsc01.0''' .
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Go a directory higher (cd ..)
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and install the new kernel package typing:
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'''dpkg -i  kernelpackagename.deb'''
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Now you only have to add the dslot=1 parameter for hfcmulti to load with this parameter.
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Otherwise OpenBSC will talk on signalling timeslot 15 where BS11 uses 1.
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Simply add the following in '''/boot/grub/menu.lst''' :
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Add this line to the "Kernel"-line
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'''hfcmulti.dslot=1'''
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Save changes and reboot your machine with your new kernel.
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=== Compiling + running OpenBSC ===
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You should install the following debian packages before you start:
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 * libdbi0
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 * libdbi0-dev
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 * libdbd-sqlite3
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 * autoconf
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 * git-core
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(The list may be incomplete)
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You can install those packages with {{{apg-get install libdbi0-dev libdbd-sqlite3 autoconf git-core}}}
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Here are the actual instructions
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 * Check out OpenBSC from git using {{{git clone git://bs11-abis.gnumonks.org/openbsc.git}}}
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 * Change into the right directory using {{{cd openbsc/openbsc}}}
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 * Rebuild the configure script using {{{autoreconf -i}}}
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 * Run the configure script using {{{./configure}}}
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 * Build the actual software using {{{make}}}
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Congratulations, you should now have the OpenBSC programs like ''bsc_hack'', ''ipaccess-config'' and others in the 'src/' subdirectory.
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