.!. USB My very next step is a PCMCIA USB adapter. Fortunately these things aren’t too expensive if you’re patient on ebay. I may even build a small 5V power supply that taps off the 12V in to allow more devices. From this point on any other peripherals will have to be USB or RS-232. [...]
I gave my first stompbox presenation at the XCSSA meeting in San Antonio tonight. It was a good mix of old and young geeks, mostly hardware afficianados with a love of the non-standard. I hope everyone enjoyed my first attempt at presenting to a user group. it was good to meet new people and I’ll [...]
Price It’s quite expensive for a toy. I had a hard time justifying the cost to myself but the old laptop I was using had some issues and I didn’t expect it to last long. My wife wasn’t too happy with the expense but she got over it this weekend when she was able to [...]
Configuration By now you should have a login prompt in your serial console. Login as root, no password and run the stompbox config script, /usr/local/bin/initial-setup. The questions are pretty self explanatory. If you don’t know the answer to a question, take the default. I don’t have a camera or gpsd setup but it still asked [...]
Boot Media You’ll need a 128MB CF card and a card reader for your computer. I would think a larger card would work but many people say otherwise on the forums. I happened to have a 128MB card left from my last camera and a Sandisk USB reader so I didn’t have to buy either. [...]
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 [...]