![]() ![]() This short note is to document my recent research on that front to help others who want to do the same (as there doesn't seem to be a lot of good current info around). This blog is full of past experiences (some of them quite time-consuming) on finding notebook hardware that will work without too much fiddling. ![]() Unfortunately it is still much harder than necessary to find notebook hardware to use with Ubuntu (or other Linux variants). Unfortunately, this seems to be no exception with electronics manufacturers (Hello Kerlink!). There are several reports of such problems in the forum with no answers. No thanks to Microchip as their forum and firmware release policy is a bit of a shocker. home/USERID/.java/.userPrefs/dfu/prefs.xml /home/USERID/.java/.userPrefs/fed/prefs.xml If you chose the default install location you can now start the utility java -jar ~/Microchip/LoRaSuite/Applications/LoRaDevUtility/LoRaDevUtility.jar A big thank you goes to The Things Network user JBI - who provided this answer in a TTN forum post. Change the following files to include the FilePath entry. ![]() Unfortunately, this is documented NOWHERE. LoRaSuite-linux-1.0.run Fix User Preferences This step is required for the Utility to run. sudo apt install openjdk-8-jre-headless openjfx Download & install utility Download location: LoRa® Technology Evaluation Kit cd ~/Downloads/ chmod +x LoRaSuite-linux-1.0.run. I ended up installing Oracle JDK 8 as well as I thought the error might be related to OpenJDK. This should work with the default OpenJDK 8 or 9 which comes as part of the Ubuntu repositories. Prerequisites Install a Java JDK + JavaFX. Having just wasted a few hours on getting this Java software running on Linux I am documenting this for future reference and hopefully saving other LoRa / TTN folks some time. ![]()
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