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Monthly Archives: March 2006

Stompbox – Howto #2 – Getting The Hardware

29-Mar-06

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 [...]

Stompbox – Howto #1 – Before You Start

29-Mar-06

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 [...]

Stompbox – It’s an Access Point now.

26-Mar-06

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 [...]

Stompbox – Pictures

23-Mar-06

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

21-Mar-06

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

Stompbox – Voyage – Software

20-Mar-06

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 [...]