Hi all,
Just wanted to share an issue and a quick workaround I found for it in case
anyone else has the same problem. I believe a cmd2 update is causing
pySim-shell to fail. After installing it on a fresh install of Ubuntu
Server 20.04 and getting the following error when I run "python3
pySim-shell -p0":
>Using PC/SC reader interface
>Autodetected card type: sysmoUSIM-SJS1
>AIDs on card:
> USIM: a0000000871002ffffffff8907090000
>Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "pySim-shell.py", line 512, in <module>
> app = PysimApp(card, rs, opts.script)
> File "pySim-shell.py", line 59, in __init__
> super().__init__(persistent_history_file='~/.pysim_shell_history',
allow_cli_args=False, use_ipython=True, auto_load_commands=False,
command_sets=basic_commands, >startup_script=script)
>TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'use_ipython'
If you run into this you can fix it by uninstalling cmd2 and reinstalling
cmd2 with "pip3 install cmd2==1.5".
Best,
Bryan
Hi,
I had a problem placing MO GSM calls from a Siemens S11E: The calls
were dropped immediately; Osmo-MSC reports "Cannot compose Channel
Type from bearer capabilities"
After investigating the SETUP request from the S11E, the phone does
not use octet 3a (no extension bit set in IE 3). Wireshark decodes the
radio channel requirement as "Full rate support only MS/fullrate
speech version 1 supported", so I added a condition to the gsm48_ie.c
function of libosmocore to include at least GSM FR in the list of
available speech_ver in case octet 3 has no extension.
Attached to this message are the Abis-IP PCAP traces of MO calls, and
the patch for gsm48_ie.c.
Regards,
Lennart
Hi,
My name is Brackley Cassinga Form DRC, we run a community network called
pamoja net where we offer gsm services using osmocom open source software
and OC Base station.
Recently I have tried to install another base station as the same installed
but I could not find any resource guiding through all the steps to take to
run NIB on a base station.
I'm currently running Ubuntu and I will appreciate if you could guide me on
the installation of BSC,hlr,MSC , in order to run a basic gsm network.
Thank you. Regards
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Hi community,
I feel a bit frustrated by how code review is going recently at osmocom.
Let me compare two larger feature branches:
There are weeks of review on 19 patches in osmo-hnbgw/cnpool,
and <24h from submit to merge on 14 patches in osmo-msc.
That may in some situations be ok and justified, but I feel that it is not:
The cnpool patch series for osmo-hnbgw spawned huge discussions and long delays
on account of minor issues: log lines, event names and comments. I said so, yet
it droned on and even spawned offspring.
None of the important features was part of code review:
larger design choices of the API, efficiency in handling the actual signalling,
correctness of the signalling. Maybe that's because all those were mint perfect
and no bugs anywhere, but I doubt that I'm really that good =)
And at the same time I was "just now" asked to review some patches for
osmo-msc, which changes an API that I have recently added and had ideas and
reasons for. Before I get a chance to even glance, I see that all the patches
are already merged! It is now basically too late to bring in my feedback,
because the patches are in, and why spend more time on it. Suck it up, bygones.
This very API that was being changed in osmo-msc in under 24 hours was itself
under code review scrutiny for at least three years.
Also I have (in my own free time) tried to get an improved logging timestamp
into libosmocore. This is tagging along for years and years now, because every
time over it is being blocked by minor details that are matters of taste. For
years I lose precious moments every time i have to read an 'extended-timestamp'
in osmo logging and identify the boundary of hours, minutes and seconds. This I
consider important. AFAIR the reasons for blocking the patches were,
objectively, all not important.
These examples are starkly unbalanced.
I'm sure you're aware of the bikeshed phenomenon -- it is a precise description
of what is happening. It would be great if we could turn that around a bit?
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/bikeshedding.html
Let's say, I know from experience that it is hard to give good code review, so
count me in on this advice.
Let's still give all the code review we can, but let's keep in mind the actual
impact the particular code change has. If it goes in the "fringe detail"
bucket, let's mention it, but just let it pass if the author disagrees.
Hope you understand my frustration and maybe even agree.
Thanks,
~N
Hi Neels,
I checked RF and BB hopping with my MetroSite with my patch added, and
they both seem to work, multi-TRX was tested a couple days ago, that
also works with 2 TRXes. Obviously I did not tested every possible
hopping scenarios, but in both cases the node manager reported the
correct hopping states and I also checked with a spectrum analyzer.
This means that either my UltraSite still has some issues, or that the
config logic for it needs a bit of tuning. The one difference I have
noticed is that the MetroSite does starts the RSL LAPD when the TRXes
reach a configured state, while the UltraSite needs the BSC to start
the RSL LAPD links even after the TRXes reach the same configured
state. FYI, I am running exactly the same BTS SW release on both units
(latest LTS ever released by the vendor), so they should not behave
differently from a pure SW point of view.
Anyway, at this point in time I don't see any particular issues that
indicates a BSC problem. One feature missing is the ability to
configure sectors (Nokia calls a sector a "BTS" while the base station
is called "BCF"). My question is, do we have any BTS type that has
sector configuration support so I can take a look how this was done
(if any) ?
Regards,
Csaba
Hello,
I know it's quite a dummy question (Beginner) but I'm actually trying the
BSC to two external MSCs but the attempt failed.
As per the doc, I did configure the cs7 instance.
Is there an example configuration file which I could go through.
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Best Regards,
Varoon
Hi Neels,
Sorry for the late response.
As there is still a slight chance that the issue on my side is HW
related, I digged out my old MetroSite with 4 TRX as that is a little
bit smaller and easier to move compared to the Ultra cabinet :-)
So I will conduct some tests with it in the next couple days. Lets say
the issue is the same: what exactly do you need from me to maybe look
into it? I assume E1 pcap and logs. If you have a specific log mask,
or you need something else, please let me know.
Regards,
Csaba
Dear Osmocom community,
we're happy to announce the next incarnation of OsmoDevCall.
when:
June 21, 2023 at 20:00 CEST
where:
https://osmocom.org/OsmoDevCall (Big Blue Button)
This time, @falconia will be leading a discussion on
FR/HR/EFR voice codecs in Osmocom RAN
This meeting will have the following schedule:
20:00 meet + greet
20:10 topic as outlined above
21:00 unstructured supplementary social event [*]
Attendance is free of charge and open to anyone with an interest
in Osmocom or open source cellular technologies.
More information about OsmoDevCall, including the schedule
for further upcoming events can be found at
https://osmocom.org/projects/osmo-dev-con/wiki/OsmoDevCall
Looking forward to meeting you soon!
Best regards,
Harald
[*] this is how we started to call the "unstructured" part of osmocom
developer conferences in the past, basically where anyone can talk about
anything, no formal schedule or structure.
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Hi Harald,
I made some progress with the Nokia UltraSite and managed to fix its
backplane, so at least I was able to continue with reintroducing
hopping control with the first 2 TRX slots of the cabinet.
During this process I realized that apparently even multi-TRX support
is broken, which was working on the old OpenBSC codebase in 2016. If
only the first TRX is configured the BTS bootstraps fine, but when a
second TRX is configured, the unit goes into this weird state: the
first TRX loops through configurng and waiting for LAPD states and
stays in configuring state, while the second TRX is stuck ad
supervisory state where TRX test is possible (it does pass the test).
I used my old multi-TRX config file that actually worked with
UltraSite (and MetroSite) where the second TRX only has TCH/F so
nothing fancy, no hopping or anything like that.
I wonder if my modification of moving the RSL bootsrap to after
CONF_COMPLETE somehow changed something, maybe the BTS requires the
RSL LAPD links to be up during the CONF state? Or the new FSM lchan
refactoring might have introduced this in 2018...
So apparently we have some more basic issues here then hopping :-)
Regards,
Csaba
