Nice! How long did it take to get your sheevaplug? The web site
says 4 week delivery and I have already passed that milestone and am
still waiting.
I'm planning to use mine for my DX Spider node, but may experiment
with JNOS as well. I have seen some reports that the built-in power
supply is a bit noisy, so may need to work on that before hooking it
to any radios (hopefully it won't interfere with other shack equipment).
73, Bob N7XY
On Jun 11, 2009, at 10:24 AM, Tom Russo wrote:
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 08:29:15AM -0400, we recorded a bogon-
computron collision of the <[email protected]> flavor, containing:
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Dan Zubey wrote:
I keep forgetting to ask, but this just reminded me...has anyone
gotten
Xastir to compile on the ARM architecture?
That's a moot point. The sheevaplug has no display or console,
so it's
not appropriate for an end-user client application. Better suited
for a
headless server app, like a digi or igate.
While you're right about the sheeva not being the appropriate
platform for
running Xastir, check this out:
http://www.swcp.com/~russo/imgs/sheeva.jpg
That's my brand new SheevaPlug (received Monday) running Xastir
with all
optional libraries except festival and gdal, being viewed over the
intarwebz
via VNC. The desktop is the ICE window manager.
At the moment it's only running with data from an internet server
and viewing
online TIGER maps and WMS radar (hey, I *just*this*second* got it
running).
I intend to experiment with AX25 networking Real Soon Now --- built
a new
kernel for the Sheeva with AX.25 support yesterday, and when I have
the time
will try to hook my KISS TNC to it and get it running that way.
While running Xastir this way is cute, ultimately I'm planning on
using the
plug mostly as a central TNC server using AX.25 networking and a
currently-unreleased piece of code called "ldsped" that is a Linux
daemon that
talks AX.25 networking and the AGWPE protocol (currently in beta,
the author
provided me with an x86 binary and says he expects to release
source in July
or August, at which time I plan to try it on the Sheeva).
Another cool application for the sheeva would be to run a web
server with
mapserver. Then we could have a network of Xastir laptops all
pulling maps
off of the plug using WMS and sharing a single TNC. That would be
pretty
killer.
Oh, and about the no-display-or-console deal, check this out:
http://plugcomputer.org/plugforum/index.php?topic=379.0
Guy's got a USB monitor plugged into his SheevaPlug, running X.
This could
be a way-cool application to use that way. The monitor required a
special
X driver, but he provides links for how to get and install it.
Geek-o-meter starting to drift into red zone...
--
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