Hi Sunil, I recently wrote a quick few internal notes for my colleagues to use Simtrace2+Wireshark on Ubuntu 18.04 I'll share with you in the case it helps. Using Simtrace2 I had not to flash any firmware, it works out of the box. ------ h1. Simtrace and Wireshark h2. Simtrace2 The official installation steps are here: https://osmocom.org/projects/simtrace2/wiki But !! Follow this installation steps for a full-debian-packaged installation (tested on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS). Let's first prepare your system to compile debian packages, let's install some recurring compiling dependencies and then devscripts (the utilities for building debian packages): $ sudo apt install build-essential libtool libtalloc-dev shtool autoconf automake git-core pkg-config make gcc $ sudo apt install devscripts First, install libosmocore dependencies, download libosmocore itself and build the debian packages and install $ sudo apt install libgnutls28-dev doxygen libtalloc-dev $ git clone git://git.osmocom.org/libosmocore.git $ cd libosmocore $ debuild -uc -us $ cd .. $ sudo dpkg -i *deb Next, install simtrace2 dependencies, download simtrace2 itself and build the debian packages and install $ sudo apt install libusb-1.0-0-dev libpcsclite-dev $ git clone git://git.osmocom.org/simtrace2.git $ cd simtrace2 $ debuild -uc -us $ cd .. $ sudo dpkg -i *deb Finally, let's configure perms to launch simtrace2 in user space $ sudo adduser $USERNAME plugdev $ sudo wget -O /etc/udev/rules.d/99-simtrace2.rules https://git.osmocom.org/simtrace2/plain/host/99-simtrace2.rules $ sudo service udev reload $ sudo udevadm control --reload-rules $ sudo udevadm trigger Plug simtrace2 and test !!! $ simtrace2-sniff simtrace2-sniff - Phone-SIM card communication sniffer (C) 2010-2017 by Harald Welte &lt;laforge(a)gnumonks.org&gt; (C) 2018 by Kevin Redon &lt;kredon(a)sysmocom.de&gt; Using USB device 1d50:60e3 Addr=15, Path=1-3, Cfg=1, Intf=0, Alt=0: 255/1/0 (SIMtrace Sniffer) Entering main loop Card state change: reset asserted ATR: 3b 9f 96 80 1f 87 80 31 e0 73 fe 21 19 67 4a 55 73 30 31 07 46 be PPS: ff 10 96 79 PPS: ff 10 96 79 Fi/Di switched to 512/32 TPDU: 00 a4 00 04 02 3f 00 61 2c TPDU: 00 c0 00 00 2c 62 2a 82 02 78 21 83 02 3f 00 a5 09 80 01 71 83 04 00 03 18 9c 8a 01 05 8c 04 26 1a 00 00 c6 0c 90 01 60 83 01 01 83 01 81 83 01 0a 90 00 TPDU: 00 a4 08 04 02 2f e2 61 21 .. .. h2. Wireshark Install wireshark, run as root, capture localhost. Apply the following wireshark filter: udp port 4729 -- *J. Félix Ontañón* Director of Research and Innovation Pod Group felix.ontanon(a)podgroup.com www.podgroup.com <https://podgroup.com/> www.podm2m.com <https://podm2m.com/> www.pod.solutions <https://pod.solutions/> UK: +44 (0)1223 850 900 <+44%201223%20850900> USA: +1 415 7070 500 Spain: +34 954 050 200 <+34%20954%2005%2002%2000> [image: Facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/PodM2M/> [image: Twitter] <https://twitter.com/podm2m> [image: LinkedIn] <https://linkedin.com/company-beta/236154/> [image: Instagram] <https://www.instagram.com/podm2m/> *Sales*: sales(a)podgroup.com *Support*: support(a)podgroup.com

Hi J. Felix and Sunil, I'm wondering: Are you actually intending to do development on the SIMtrace2 software, or do you just want to use it? If you just want to use it, why not simply use the osmocom packages provided for Ubuntu 18.04 at http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:/osmocom:/nightly/xUbuntu… as explained at https://osmocom.org/projects/cellular-infrastructure/wiki/Nightly_Builds Building from source should generally only be done by developers who want to contribute to development/extension of the software. And for those, I would sort-of expect that they know how to do system-level C development on Linux, including auto-tools, pkg-config, etc. Regards, Harald -- - Harald Welte &lt;laforge(a)gnumonks.org&gt; http://laforge.gnumonks.org/ ============================================================================ "Privacy in residential applications is a desirable marketing option." (ETSI EN 300 175-7 Ch. A6)