[hpsdr] [dttsp-linux] intel 330 x86-64

[Bob McGwier]

I see no reason to do anything but the latest distributions.  I see no
reason to prefer one over the other.  For those who wish or insist on having
something besides F10 or Ubuntu 8.10,  they must take on the extra
responsibility of maintaining their own packages outside of these
frameworks.

Right now, ONLY Ubuntu 8.10 bootstraps, configures, makes, installs, and
runs GnuRadio, dttsp/vr, and SDRmax II Linux without modification.  To add
firewire support of the type we are likely to want to use,  YOU MUST install
FFADO and a late version.  You are likely to want to install the latest
"official" jack from source to get usable netjack, etc.

Ubuntu 8.10 comes the closest to complete.  For F10 and GnuRadio,  you must
build and install boost, etc.  As I see it, there is not that much
difference operationally.  The libtool in Ubuntu continues to be a
half-arsed approximation of the one in Fedora but in GnuRadio this has been
worked around.

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: dttsp-linux at yahoogroups.com [mailto:dttsp-linux at yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Edson Pereira
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 12:32 AM
To: dttsp-linux at yahoogroups.com
Cc: hpsdr at lists.hpsdr.org
Subject: Re: [dttsp-linux] intel 330 x86-64



Bob,

Absolutely terrific! Your info is precious.

It seems we are converging on a hardware platform. What do you think 
about using a common distribution? Does the group think we should use 
Ubuntu 8.04.1 or 8.10?

Regards,

-- Edson


Bob McGwier wrote:
>
> Just got back from Puerto Rico, and naturally, the first thing I am 
> doing after reading email, hugging my kids, before I read mail (all 
> bills anyway), is to try and install x86_64 on my Atom330 D945GCLF2 
> motherboard. Of course, it gave me a fit. First, the latest kernels 
> and the BIOS have an incompatibility (but of COURSE). So you must do a 
> bios update to the Dec. 21, 2008 BIOS. The instructions make it seem 
> trivial. Put the iso on a bootable device (such as CD ROM) and let it 
> do the upgrade.
>
> So the CD ROM boots, and it asks you if you want to flash, you say 
> yes, and it does some stuff and then boots. You think you are done so 
> you unload the CD-ROM and you get a CRC checksum message. You say 
> "Self, you have seen this before, the BIOS is updated and the battery 
> backed configuration is not checksummed" and it boots.
>
> You try to start the x86_64 installation disks, and BOOM, kernel panic.
>
> You scratch your head (as I am sure hundreds have done before you), 
> you google, and you see almost no help whatsoever beyond "update the 
> firmware". You confirm that the firmware has NOT been updated and you 
> go hmmmm. Your burn another copy of the CD-Rom, you do it again, same 
> failure.
>
> You boot the firmware update CD-ROM a TH IRD bloody time BUT THIS 
> TIME, you let the computer reboot WITHOUT REMOVING THE CD-ROM and on 
> the SECOND PASS, it flashes the ROM. Not a single word about this 
> being a two pass or two step process ANYWHERE that you can find, but 
> this time it finishes. You confirm that after removing the CD-ROM and 
> going into setup that this time, you have the correct version of the 
> BIOS (it says Intel 64 bit processor compatible and does NOT say EM64T 
> capable). You install your Ubuntu x86_64 live CD and this time it 
> boots without a bloody kernel panic.
>
> I will report more later after I hope I forestall your making the same 
> stupid blunders I did.
>
> 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
>
>  


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