OpenBSC May 2012

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sim
by Hans Witvliet 24 May '12

24 May '12

Hi all, Perhaps i am completely mistaken.. If so, please make it a "learning-moment" for me ;-) Is it possible to crate your own SIM's ? As far as i can see, these are just small smartcards. And as such, thse can be filled with the tools that come along with OpenSC. I presume the SIM's contain a number of EF's and DF's One set that thighs a SIM to a specific operator (making it possible to SIM-lock a handy) And another set of EF's that identifies a specific user. Within the DB of the operator, the relation between the SIM-identifier and the specific user (with his 06-number and other info) is made. (I know that the sim itself is not unique, because a college had a malfuntioning SIM, and it was replaced by another one, with the same content) Reason why i want to fill my own sims is this; For one of our projects we are using certificates on a smartcard. Currently full-sized, but we think of putting it on a sim-sized card. And use it in a dongle along with 2Gb (bootable) flash storage. So my questions are: 1) can you burn your own sim's 2) would there be any objections to have, beside de GSM-info, also a certificate 3) could you "clone" an existing SIM? With regard to the last one: If i buy a couple of prepaid-sims from a operator, would it be possible to extract that info, and put it along with my own certificates on a sim of my own? Obviously, it is no use to contact the help desks of kpn, tele2, or vodafone at this moment. But _if_ their are no technical limitations i could do a test with some of our own BTS'es. And if that pilot works, we have a business case for any interested operator. Hans

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Query Regarding GSM setup.
by Manan Bhatt 24 May '12

24 May '12

Hi, all. I am beginner to GSM setup.I have gone through osmocom sit and collect the material to build the network.But my query is how i should sync the gnuradio which drives USRP with openBTS or openBSC.. -- Regards, Manan Bhatt

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TODAY: May 23, 7pm / Osmocom meeting in Berlin
by Harald Welte 23 May '12

23 May '12

Hi all! This is the announcement for the 4th incarnation of our bi-weekly Osmocom Berlin meeting. May 23, 7pm @ CCC Berlin, Marienstr. 11, 10113 Berlin There is no particular schedule for now, but if there is interest we can do an introduction + demo of the new sysmoBTS. Also, I'll have my SIMtrace with me, to read out TERMINAL PROFILE from phones for https://terminal-profile.osmocom.org/ . So if you have any phones to read out: Please bring them (with charged battery or charger!) So we'll just meet + talk. There seem to be some SMSC related questions that we would want to adress, so you have been warned ;) If you are interested to show up, feel free to do so. There is no registration required. The meeting is free as in "free beer", despite no actual free beer being around ;) Regards, Harald -- - Harald Welte <laforge(a)gnumonks.org> http://laforge.gnumonks.org/ ============================================================================ "Privacy in residential applications is a desirable marketing option." (ETSI EN 300 175-7 Ch. A6)

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pySIM patch for USIM
by Dragos Vingarzan 22 May '12

22 May '12

Hello Silvain, please find attached a patch for pySIM which I put together today after some work to get the extra parameters which I needed on the sysmoUSIM-GR1. Don't know if it only works for those cards. This fixes some bugs in setting the IMSI and also adds support for selecting USIM and writing binary/records in there. I have also added some parameters like MSISDN or the forbidden MCC to black-list other national networks, in the idea that one would provision on the test 001/01 network. The data formats are not so well defined or clean as I was on a get-it-done schedule and did not actually read the specs. Anyway, the result works fine for me. Otherwise I could only use pySIM with the GemPC Express reader. I read that you have a PC Twin Reader which seems to be more common, but I am getting the following with that, so any help would be appreciated: Programming ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "./pySim-prog.py", line 544, in <module> card.program(cp) File "/root/svn/svnsrv.fokus.fraunhofer.de_OpenEPC/pysim/pySim/cards.py", line 364, in program data, sw = self._scc._tp.send_apdu_checksw("0099000033" + par) File "/root/svn/svnsrv.fokus.fraunhofer.de_OpenEPC/pysim/pySim/transport/__init__.py", line 88, in send_apdu_checksw rv = self.send_apdu(pdu) File "/root/svn/svnsrv.fokus.fraunhofer.de_OpenEPC/pysim/pySim/transport/__init__.py", line 69, in send_apdu data, sw = self.send_apdu_raw(pdu) File "/root/svn/svnsrv.fokus.fraunhofer.de_OpenEPC/pysim/pySim/transport/pcsc.py", line 75, in send_apdu_raw data, sw1, sw2 = self._con.transmit(apdu) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/smartcard/CardConnectionDecorator.py", line 82, in transmit return self.component.transmit(bytes, protocol) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/smartcard/CardConnection.py", line 140, in transmit data, sw1, sw2 = self.doTransmit(bytes, protocol) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/smartcard/pcsc/PCSCCardConnection.py", line 175, in doTransmit raise CardConnectionException('Failed to transmit with protocol ' + dictProtocolHeader[pcscprotocolheader] + '. ' + SCardGetErrorMessage(hresult)) smartcard.Exceptions.CardConnectionException: Failed to transmit with protocol T0. Transaction failed. P.S. I must apologize if the patch is crappy, as I could not yet be bothered to read a book or something on python. Cheers, -Dragos -- ----------------------------------------- Dipl. Eng. Dragos Vingarzan Fraunhofer FOKUS/NGNI Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 31 10589 Berlin,Germany Phone +49 (0)30 - 3463 - 7385 Mobile +49 (0)176 - 48 32 16 00 Web www.fokus.fraunhofer.de www.openepc.net www.openimscore.org -----------------------------------------------------------------

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21 May '12

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OpenBSC "success stories", anyone ?
by Harald Welte 21 May '12

21 May '12

Hi all! We sometimes get media inquiries about where (and for what) OpenBSC is actually deployed. Like any Free Software project, we of course have no clue how many users there are, and what they do with it. There are some companies that we know of, as we've received their patches, or actually did some consulting for them as part of our paid work. Some of them are actually listed in the source code and/or on our homepage. However, I would like to see more than those "usual suspects". So if you use OpenBSC for anything beyond your personal hobby, I would like to hear from you. If possible, I would like to anything from a small one-line statement to a multi-paragraph explanation about it on our project webpage. It doesn't have to be all-positive. You can even state that you tried it but didn't get So far, I know there are * at least one handful of academic institutions using it for research and/or teaching * at least one company that's using OpenBSC based networks as communications technology at large events (concerts/festivals and the like) * at least one company operating OpenBSC on board of maritime vessels * at least one company building systems for desaster / emergency relief based on OpenBSC So if all of you (or at least some of you) could step forward and send me a notice (either privately or Cc to this list), I would appreciate it a lot. Regards, Harald p.s.: And yes, I'm talking about the OpenBSC homepage, not the sysmocom company page. We keep a strict separation between those two, and if you ever think that we might not follow that clear distinction. -- - Harald Welte <laforge(a)gnumonks.org> http://laforge.gnumonks.org/ ============================================================================ "Privacy in residential applications is a desirable marketing option." (ETSI EN 300 175-7 Ch. A6)

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Query ragrding libosmocore installation
by Manan Bhatt 19 May '12

19 May '12

Sir, I am working on a project to implement a GSM test-bed scenario. I need do install openBSC. I go through your page indicating the installation guide. My problem is git clone is not working.Everytime it is telling that the server is not responding. When i tried to install using tarballs the version conflict is coming in case of libosmo-abis and openbsc as the tarballs are provided of different versions. libosmocore 0.1.30 but libosmo-abis needs libosmocore >=0.3.0 . Please help me regarding this. -- Regards, Manan Bhatt

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nanoBTS
by Stuart Baggs 18 May '12

18 May '12

Hello All I know the list isn't for advertising but I thought some of the list members trying to source a nanoBTS may find this useful. We currently have 2 model 139 1800 MHz units here in our office which we pulled from a live GSM network earlier in the week. We've got them working with openBSC just fine. If anyone is interested please give me an email. P.S. We've sold quite a few of these to list members before so referencing isn't a problem. Kind Regards Stuart

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OsmoDevCon'12 video recordings are available
by Alexander Chemeris 14 May '12

14 May '12

Hi all, (and apologies for cross-posting) OsmoDevCon'12 was a great event and a lot of fun. There were also a lot of information about the state of the art open-source in telecom and some of this information is now available for everyone as video recordings. Quality of recordings is not so great, so please make sure you enjoy the content. http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL07C78AF831FFE8F9 Slides for some of the talks could be found at the end of the OsmoDevCon'12 wiki page: http://openbsc.osmocom.org/trac/wiki/OsmoDevCon2012#Videorecordings -- Regards, Alexander Chemeris. CEO, Fairwaves LLC / ООО УмРадио http://fairwaves.ru

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OpenMSC (OpenBSC without BSC) talking SIGTRAN (M3UA).
by Henrik Aagaard Sørensen 09 May '12

09 May '12

Are there any work being done or already implemented solutions towards having OpenBSC work without the BSC-part and having the MSC-part talking SIGTRAN (M3UA)? All help is very much appreciated. Regards, Henrik

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