5 Jan
2008
5 Jan
'08
7:56 p.m.
I think the XO is a... ground breaking device.
Did I get one? No, I realized that it is does
not meet my needs and would end up in the
closet or given away to a child...
Mine have done just that since Xmas, until today. ...
I couldn't find my shoulder bag big laptop and so on my way out the door, I grabbed
one of the kids XO's so I could try it out for the 5 hours I would be sitting at the
kids swim meet.
Sitting in the stands, I fired it up, and to my amazement wireless! bingo up came my
favorite web pages, and then email. After reading email I went to edit some of my web
pages. Flipped the screen around to tablet/book style so that the pages were long and I
could read like a book. Holding the device in one hand with the nice finger holes
provided.
Wow, what a neat way to access wireless, email, web pages, and live mobile APRS. Less
than 1/2 the bulk of my big laptop, and only $200 at risk instead of the $1200 labtop.
I can't wait for the ham software to start working with it. Talk about portability...
The ease of use, will assure that I will now probbly have the ham radio laptop apps with
me more often than before since I will be more apt to carry the small XO at low risk then
lug the big laptop.
I'm sold!
And now that my kids see how easy the itnernet access was, I now have to buy my own XO,
since now their inteerest has been re kindled and they do want to take them both back to
school...
Bob, WB4APR
5 Jan
5 Jan
9:40 p.m.
New subject: [amsat-bb] Re: [aprssig] Re: OLPC ... Neat!
Bob Bruninga wrote:
For what it's worth, I've had good success getting Xastir
working on
the box. The only part I'm having real trouble with is soundmodem keeps
crashing when ever it decodes a packet. Otherwise all is compiling and working
nicely, once the appropriate prerequisite packages are installed.
-Paul
--
Paul Kronenwetter - N2KIQ
AEC Technology
Orange County Emergency Amateur Radio Team
Amateur Radio is a hobby, Emergency Communications is a commitment!
http://www.w4mco.org/
I think the XO
is a... ground breaking device.
Did I get one? No, I realized that it is does
not meet my needs and would end up in the
closet or given away to a child...
...
I can't wait for the ham software to start working with it. Talk about
portability... The ease of use, will assure that I will now probbly have the ham radio
laptop apps with me more often than before since I will be more apt to carry the small XO
at low risk then lug the big laptop.
Bob, WB4APR
6 Jan
6 Jan
3:15 p.m.
New subject: [amsat-bb] OLPC meeting in DC area?
For what it's worth, I've had good success
getting
Xastir working on the box. The only part I'm
having real trouble with is soundmodem keeps
crashing when ever it decodes a packet.
Im hopling you will well document the steps so those of us that
follow later will have the benefit of your efforts.
In the DC area, I think we have several Hams with XO's. Maybe
we should schedule a meeting and show and tell so that everyone
cal beenefit from the fruits of our efforts?
Kinda like those early digital meetings we used to have.
TO make it easy to compute the centroid of people, everyone
could beacon their position on APRS using the LAPTOP symbol with
an overlay of "O" and then FINDU.COM can draw us a map. Then we
pick the centroid to plan a meeting...
Thanks!
Bob, WB4APR
7 Jan
7 Jan
11:56 p.m.
New subject: [amsat-bb] Re: [aprssig] Re: OLPC ... Neat!
Paul Kronenwetter wrote:
Bob Bruninga wrote:
For what it's worth, I've had good success getting Xastir
working on
the box. The only part I'm having real trouble with is soundmodem keeps
crashing when ever it decodes a packet. Otherwise all is compiling and working
nicely, once the appropriate prerequisite packages are installed.
-Paul
Hello,
Thanks for the information about Xastir. There seems to be so many
linux projects out there these days that I can not keep track and 10,000
of them are multimedia players. :) I have to try it. I also wish there
were more Radio-related Linux projects and less of duplicate
"mainstream" projects.
I have a number of older laptops (Thinkpad 380 and 600 series) that I
use for mobile dxing of Trunked Radio systems. I have been looking for
something smaller for years to do this. I also want to run Winradio
software and connect up to my D700 on the road.
Besides doing some GNURadio development I have a hand in Trunked Radio
Decoding Software development, in particular LTR, DOS Trunker (Motorola
and EDACS), and Windows ports of Trunker, I want do do Linux versions
but until then I have to use Windows. So I went with the Eee PC because
I could put 2GB of Ram in it and Windows XP can be put on it. I would
not consider the Classmate either since it does not really have enough
RAM to run Windows XP. I still run Windows 98SE and W2K on my older
laptops to minimize the bloat.
I have "standardized" on openSuSE for my linux distribution and on KDE
in particular. Although I have used the built-in OS on the Eee PC for
web browsing, irc, and listening to internet audio, I still installed
openSuSE. I am still setting it up and want to try compiling GNURadio
on it. So I think it is also neat having my familiar Linux environment
in the palm of my hand.
73 Eric
I think
the XO is a... ground breaking device.
Did I get one? No, I realized that it is does
not meet my needs and would end up in the
closet or given away to a child...
...
I can't wait for the ham software to start working with it. Talk about
portability... The ease of use, will assure that I will now probbly have the ham radio
laptop apps with me more often than before since I will be more apt to carry the small XO
at low risk then lug the big laptop.
Bob, WB4APR
13 Jan
13 Jan
6:04 p.m.
New subject: [amsat-bb] Re: [aprssig] Re: OLPC ... Neat!
All,
I've started a page on the laptop.org WIKI, currently at:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Kronenpj to document what I've been
doing. Once I get it a bit further along, I'll see if the OLPC folks
want amateur-radio stuff in their wiki or somewhere else. In the
meantime, anyone with comments or suggestions, please use the discussion
tab and we'll work through things.
-Paul
Paul Kronenwetter wrote:
Bob Bruninga wrote:
For what it's worth, I've had good success getting Xastir working on
the box. The only part I'm having real trouble with is soundmodem keeps
crashing when ever it decodes a packet. Otherwise all is compiling and working
nicely, once the appropriate prerequisite packages are installed.
-Paul
--
Paul Kronenwetter - N2KIQ
AEC Technology
Orange County Emergency Amateur Radio Team
Amateur Radio is a hobby, Emergency Communications is a commitment!
http://www.w4mco.org/
I think
the XO is a... ground breaking device.
Did I get one? No, I realized that it is does
not meet my needs and would end up in the
closet or given away to a child...
...
I can't wait for the ham software to start working with it. Talk about
portability... The ease of use, will assure that I will now probbly have the ham radio
laptop apps with me more often than before since I will be more apt to carry the small XO
at low risk then lug the big laptop.
Bob, WB4APR
18 Apr
18 Apr
7:36 p.m.
New subject: [amsat-bb] APRS and the OLPC
All,
I've updated the laptop.org Wiki page with locations to download the
packages I'm using on the XO. I had a bit of a delay because I tried to
update to one of the Joyride builds and it toasted the data on my SD
card. I lost all my work. So, with that out of the way, here are the
links:
http://n2kiq.dyndns.org.nyud.net/xoaprs/
http://n2kiq.dyndns.org/xoaprs/
If you can, please use the Coral network to get a faster download speed.
I'm also looking for help getting Thomas Saylor's soundmodem package to
work with Alsa and a 2.6 kernel. It builds and runs fine until it goes
to actually do something with the sound card. This problem isn't
specific to the XO, it's just keeping me from using it and another
system the way I want to.
Thanks all & 73!
-Paul
Paul Kronenwetter wrote:
All,
I've started a page on the laptop.org WIKI, currently at:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Kronenpj to document what I've been
doing. Once I get it a bit further along, I'll see if the OLPC folks
want amateur-radio stuff in their wiki or somewhere else. In the
meantime, anyone with comments or suggestions, please use the discussion
tab and we'll work through things.
-Paul
Paul Kronenwetter wrote:
--
Paul Kronenwetter - N2KIQ
AEC Technology
Orange County Emergency Amateur Radio Team
Amateur Radio is a hobby, Emergency Communications is a commitment!
http://www.w4mco.org/
Bob Bruninga wrote:
For what it's worth, I've had good success getting Xastir working
on
the box. The only part I'm having real trouble with is soundmodem keeps
crashing when ever it decodes a packet. Otherwise all is compiling and working
nicely, once the appropriate prerequisite packages are installed.
-Paul
I think
the XO is a... ground breaking device.
Did I get one? No, I realized that it is does
not meet my needs and would end up in the
closet or given away to a child...
...
I can't wait for the ham software to start working with it. Talk about
portability... The ease of use, will assure that I will now probbly have the ham radio
laptop apps with me more often than before since I will be more apt to carry the small XO
at low risk then lug the big laptop.
Bob, WB4APR
19 Apr
19 Apr
8:13 p.m.
New subject: [amsat-bb] Re: [aprssig] APRS and the OLPC
I've done a little more investigating and the only consistent error I'm
receiving is this:
sm[3179]: audio: snd_pcm_writei: File descriptor in bad state
I've briefly looked at the code in the alsaio.c modules and been tempted
to add code to help it recover from this state, but I'm not an alsa
programmer so I haven't a clue how far I'd need to go. I welcome and
appreciate any help the community has to offer.
Soundmodem stays running and still properly decodes packets, but won't
encode anything. It just outputs a large quantity of those error
messages. What else can I provide?
-Paul
Paul Kronenwetter wrote:
All,
I've updated the laptop.org Wiki page with locations to download the
packages I'm using on the XO. I had a bit of a delay because I tried
to update to one of the Joyride builds and it toasted the data on my
SD card. I lost all my work. So, with that out of the way, here are
the links:
http://n2kiq.dyndns.org.nyud.net/xoaprs/
http://n2kiq.dyndns.org/xoaprs/
If you can, please use the Coral network to get a faster download speed.
I'm also looking for help getting Thomas Saylor's soundmodem package
to work with Alsa and a 2.6 kernel. It builds and runs fine until it
goes to actually do something with the sound card. This problem isn't
specific to the XO, it's just keeping me from using it and another
system the way I want to.
Thanks all & 73!
-Paul
Paul Kronenwetter wrote:
--
Paul Kronenwetter - N2KIQ
AEC Technology
Orange County Emergency Amateur Radio Team
Amateur Radio is a hobby, Emergency Communications is a commitment!
http://www.w4mco.org/
All,
I've started a page on the laptop.org WIKI, currently at:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Kronenpj to document what I've been
doing. Once I get it a bit further along, I'll see if the OLPC folks
want amateur-radio stuff in their wiki or somewhere else. In the
meantime, anyone with comments or suggestions, please use the discussion
tab and we'll work through things.
-Paul
Paul Kronenwetter wrote:
Bob Bruninga wrote:
> I think the XO is a... ground breaking
device. Did I get one? No,
> I realized that it is does not meet my needs and would end up in the
> closet or given away to a child...
>
...
I can't wait for the ham software to start working with it. Talk
about portability... The ease of use, will assure that I will now
probbly have the ham radio laptop apps with me more often than
before since I will be more apt to carry the small XO at low risk
then lug the big laptop.
Bob, WB4APR
For what it's worth, I've had good success getting Xastir
working on
the box. The only part I'm having real trouble with is soundmodem
keeps
crashing when ever it decodes a packet. Otherwise all is compiling
and working
nicely, once the appropriate prerequisite packages are installed.
-Paul
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