[hpsdr] Sasquatch II

[Frank Brickle]

In preparation for order a BB for myself, I'm going through the list of
necessary and recommended (connectors, PS, and whatnot) add-ons. It's very
confusing. Most of the Shopping List is of the form, "If you want to do X,
you'll need Y." My problem isn't knowing whether I need Y, it's knowing
whether I'll need to do X.

(The mere fact of finding this so confusing probably should probably
disqualify me from taking it on at all, but never mind.)

Can anybody suggest a reasonably rich starting config, that is, enough to do
some real development without going overboard on bells and whistles?

73 and thanks
Frank
AB2KT



On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Bob McGwier <rwmcgwier at gmail.com> wrote:

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> And I strongly recommend this group:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/beagleboard?hl=en
>
> The Armstrong developers are there and there is a huge amount of traffic.
> The archives are brimming with details.
>
> Bob
>
>
>
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> -----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 *****
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> 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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