[hpsdr] Sasquatch II

[Bob McGwier]

All I have going right now is Armstrong.  Rick Hambly went through this
first and prodded me along.  He may have done more than I have.  Right this
minute, I basically have it running and talking to the internet.  It is
darned funny to see that tiny computer hooked to my 54" LCD.  ;-).

One of my favorite embedded systems programmers, a regular in the GnuRadio
project, Phil Balister, has been doing some Neon programming and is moving
GnuRadio along on it.  I will ask him his preferred environment, development
tool versions, etc.

This is indeed a good discussion and happy we are all still alive and well
enough to have them!



Bob


ARRL SDR Working Group Chair
Member: ARRL, AMSAT, AMSAT-DL, TAPR, Packrats,
NJQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC.
"And yes I said, yes I will Yes", Molly Bloom


-----Original Message-----
From: hpsdr-bounces at lists.hpsdr.org [mailto:hpsdr-bounces at lists.hpsdr.org]
On Behalf Of Alberto I2PHD
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 11:01 AM
To: hpsdr at lists.hpsdr.org
Subject: Re: [hpsdr] Sasquatch II

***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****

Bob McGwier wrote:
> 
> The OMAP3530 is a good SoC.  It will run Linux and well on the ARM.  The
> NEON is a very good floating point SIMD engine.  We could have a
stand-alone
> dsp enhanced computer with networking capability, monitor as well as small
> LCD support, and burning under 2 watts!

  I have a Beagleboard since two or three weeks, and doing some experiments
with it, made complicated by my lack of 
knowledge of the Linux world. I have been able to put into an SD card the
image of the Armstrong-demo Linux, and run 
successfully it. My attempts to install on a different SD card a version of
Debian Lenny are unsuccessful so far, as the 
  installer at a certain point wants to connect to Internet to download
required pieces of code, and the couple of 
USB<=>WiFi dongles that I tried on the BB are not supported.

My questions :

A) What distribution would you choose to use the BB as a development
platform for SDR-related purposes ?
    Debian ? Armstrong ? Ubuntu (I read that it exists a port of Ubuntu to
the BB) ?

B) Does anybody have a completely installed and usable image of such a
distribution that he is willing to share, so that 
I just need to copy it into an SD card ?

Many thanks from a Linux newcomer...

73  Alberto  I2PHD

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