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Flash Mayhem onto bare HackRF
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Using firmware file from github release page and the classic hackrf_spiflash tool

Note

⚠️ This guide works for bare HackRF instead of HackRF with a PortaPack.

  • Get the latest firmware from the GitHub release (latest by date) page

Windows

  1. Connect the device via USB.
  2. Double click flash_portapack_mayhem.bat and follow the instructions.
  3. Reboot the device.

Linux

  1. Connect the device via USB
  2. Upload the firmware with hackrf_spiflash -w new_firmware_file.bin (eg. portapack-h1_h2-mayhem.bin for mayhem firmware or hackrf_one_usb.bin for stock HackRF firmware)
  3. Reboot the device

Note

  • To Ubuntu and Mint user: Ubuntu based distro never maintains their repo for HackRF host (cli client) package. Youll face a lot of weird problems if your HackRF is R9. To resolve these, please compile the HackRF package yourself, or use another distro.

MacOS

  1. If necessary, install the HackRF tools: brew install hackrf
  2. Connect the device via USB
  3. Upload the firmware with hackrf_spiflash -w new_firmware_file.bin
  4. Reboot the device