General Hardware Requirements You’ll need some form of EVDO card with an external antenna jack, an 802.11b card with the Prism 2/2.5/3 chipset, and a small computer with interfaces for both. The Soekris 4521 fits this need nicely without a lot of money. It’s configured with two PCMCIA slots and one miniPCI slot. EVDO Your [...]
This is the start of my Stompbox Network howto. I have 6 parts planned so far, but may add a couple more later when I add GPS and a Webcam to my stompbox. Why A Stompbox The first thing to ask is if you really need one of these, and I suppose the second is [...]
I received the Senao Net2511 MP WiFi card in the mail yesterday and the stompbox booted right up into AP mode. The card’s got a 200mW transmitter and should belt out the signal quite well, even with the antennas I stole from my WRT-54G. One of these days I’ll take the laptop out in the [...]
I’ve got some pictures up on Flickr now. The scripts are coming along and it now tells my webserver every time it reconnects. I managed to screw it all up once, but it only took half an hour to get the disk image back to where I was. Many thanks to the backups. The miniPCI [...]
Listen, just listen There’s a new mp3 player in the gnome world. May have to check it out when Dapper stablilzes and I get mp3 and m4a files working with gstreamer again. With listen you can * Play your favorite songs * Manage your library * Manage your ipod * Make playlists
Voyage – Software | Voyage Linux Weighing the options for another distro to use on the stompbox. Alternately I may consider Pebble x Voyager which adds the Voyager packages to an existing Pebble Linux. Voyage Linux is a Debian sarge-based distro (voyage) built from scratch. It is best run on a x86-based embedded platform such [...]