Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Broadcast flag: FCC and MPAA Response Briefs

2005-05-06 Thread James S. Tyre
"In sum, because the rules promulgated by the Flag Order regulate demodulator products after the transmission of a DTV broadcast is complete, these regulations exceed the scope of authority Congress delegated to the FCC. And because the Commission can only issue regulations on subjects over which i

[Discuss-gnuradio] FCC's broadcast flag struck down in federal court

2005-05-06 Thread bernieS
good news on the legality of GNUradio software and the USRP board. let's hope this isn't overturned on appeal. -bernieS Court says FCC's 'broadcast flag' is toast By Declan McCullagh http://news.com.com/Court+says+FCCs+broadcast+flag+is+toast/2100-1030_3-5697719.html Story last modified Fri Ma

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP-KNOPPIX Beta

2005-05-06 Thread Angilberto Muniz Sb
Folks, Do I need some special config or setup? Under this distro my USRP shows up as FULL-Speed but under FC-3 it shows up as HIGH-Speed. Audio examples runs ok on a standard linux but under KNOPPIX no good -- it says I have no audio card! The other examples say "...cant find USRP0..." Has anyb

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP-KNOPPIX Beta

2005-05-06 Thread Matt Ettus
Angilberto Muniz Sb wrote: > Folks, > Do I need some special config or setup? > > Under this distro my USRP shows up as FULL-Speed but > under FC-3 it shows up as HIGH-Speed. try "modprobe ehci_hcd" before plugging in the USRP. > Audio examples runs ok on a standard linux but under > KNOPPIX no

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] FCC's broadcast flag struck down in federal court

2005-05-06 Thread Bob Poortinga
bernieS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > good news on the legality of GNUradio software and the USRP board. let's > hope this isn't overturned on appeal. I'll wager that there will be no appeal. It will be easier and more cost-effective for the MPAA and RIAA to lobby Congress to give the FCC the

[Discuss-gnuradio] GNU.org GNUradio web page.

2005-05-06 Thread Lamar Owen
Out of curiosity, who is the webmaster for the gnu.org gnuradio web page? Is there a need for help in that area, keeping things updated, etc? The GNU.org page is quite a bit out of date: there's no mention of the USRP shipping, for instance, in the news frame. -- Lamar Owen Director of Informa

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP-KNOPPIX Beta

2005-05-06 Thread Angilberto Muniz Sb
> > from gnuradio import audio > to > from gnuradio import audio_oss as audio > That worked out -- audio ok! > > try "modprobe ehci_hcd" before plugging in the USRP. > Still no go! When I "modprobe ehci-hcd" I get: ".../ehci-hcd.o: init_module: No such device" If try 'usrp_siggen.py' as

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP-KNOPPIX Beta

2005-05-06 Thread Matt Ettus
o go! > > When I "modprobe ehci-hcd" I get: > > ".../ehci-hcd.o: init_module: No such device" > Its ehci_hcd -- use an underscore matt ___ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradi

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] implementing state flow

2005-05-06 Thread Rahul Dhar
On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 11:52:23AM -0700, Eric Blossom wrote: > On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 04:07:04PM -0700, Richard Cagley wrote: > > To implement MAC layer elements, i.e. waiting for data to arrive, is the > > best strategy to program these elements in python? > > This is an area of active explora

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU.org GNUradio web page.

2005-05-06 Thread Eric Blossom
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 03:08:20PM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: > Out of curiosity, who is the webmaster for the gnu.org gnuradio web page? By default, I am. > Is there a need for help in that area, keeping things updated, etc? The > GNU.org page is quite a bit out of date: there's no mention of th

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP-KNOPPIX Beta

2005-05-06 Thread Angilberto Muniz Sb
Matt, If I "modprobe ehci_hcd" I get "cant find module.." There is a ehci-hcd.o module under /lib/modules/... /usb Would it be some permissions issue? Reading some parts of hotplug I see that the USP ID is ../2 before firmware loading and ../102 after firmware loading (supposedly). If I unpl

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] FCC's broadcast flag struck down in federal court

2005-05-06 Thread John Gilmore
> good news on the legality of GNUradio software and the USRP board. let's > hope this isn't overturned on appeal. The ruling was made by the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. The only place it could go from here is the Supreme Court -- and they're unlikely to take it (because the issue of FCC's lac

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] USRP-KNOPPIX Beta

2005-05-06 Thread Matt Ettus
Angilberto Muniz Sb wrote: > Matt, > If I "modprobe ehci_hcd" I get "cant find module.." > > There is a ehci-hcd.o module under /lib/modules/... > /usb > > Would it be some permissions issue? > Reading some parts of hotplug I see that the USP ID is > ../2 before firmware loading and ../102 af

[Discuss-gnuradio] FPGA utilization

2005-05-06 Thread Rahul Dhar
Are there any numbers on FPGA utilization? Some folks at NTT built an SDR platform with 3 boards that each contain 2 1M gate FPGAs. Max utilization was 33% on 802.11 receiving [1,2]. I'm wondering how the USRP compares. 1. http://www.ntt.co.jp/tr/0307/files/ntr200307015.pdf 2. http://www.ntt.co

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] FPGA utilization

2005-05-06 Thread Damien B.
Hi, >From my measures: Bit stream 0.8 original : logic elements 56%, Memory bits 27% One cordic unit is 6% of the logic elements Damien On 5/7/05, Rahul Dhar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are there any numbers on FPGA utilization? Some folks at NTT built an > SDR platform with 3 boards that each

[Discuss-gnuradio] handling bursty data

2005-05-06 Thread Rahul Dhar
In HDTV streams, there is a large quantity of data that is always there. Each block, therefore, always has data to send to the next block, and the scheduler happily keeps iterating over the flowgraph. In a data network, we have bursty traffic. Are there any complications because of this? I'm thi