War Driving, huh ;-) We have a number of the net4801's in the field running kizmet and NetBSD with a gps device that talks over the internal serial port.
The gps's were provided by a contractor, and I've never been able to get a model number from them that I can cross ref. Little card says 'powered by SiRF' on it, but I never paid it any mind, it just works. Units have a Atheros WiFi mini-pci card, and they're always on the lookout for an AP to attach to. Our remote units are installed in some of the City maintenance trucks, and update a MySQL database on my server here through the network when they can attach to it, showing where they found access points, and whatever info that kizmet can grab from them. System works great, and is NetBSD based. David >>> Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 4/30/2007 3:01 PM >>> We are planning to connect a few of them to roving Soekris boxes on vans to map the AP coverage on our site to get a better idea were coverage is. On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 14:54 -0500, RB wrote: > I've been fantastically happy with my BR355, but it's still the SiRF > StarIII chipset - no problem for me there. As long as you're using a > *BSD or a Linux, GPSd should work fine in your OS of choice, and > speaks SiRF binary just fine. Even has a SHM output driver for NTP, > if you plan on using it as a time source. I've never heavily tested > it's accuracy for timing, but location has been great: the first GPS > system I've tested that I could get a solid in a commercial aircraft > without sticking the puck out in the window. > > I've got to wonder, though - how much of a driver would it take (if > any) to recognize a device presenting 3 UARTs over the PCI bus? It > says they are "16C950" UARTs, which seem to be supported by the Linux > & BSD in-kernel drivers. Not being a driver developer, I'm wondering > if those wouldn't just be automagically picked up and presented as > serial devices... Can anyone more familiar with UART handling come to > bear on the subject? > > > RB _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
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