From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brett Mueller Subject: Embedded Linux and Amateur Radio Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 10:34:45 -0700 Message-ID: <42B84FB5.8090907@wa7v.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Linux-Hams -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Good day all, I am currently brainstorming on developing and implementing a amateur network in our region (northeast Oregon, southeast Washington), to include using 802.11 devices running under US FCC part 97 regulations, similar to Green Bay Professional Packet Radio: http://www.qsl.net/n9zia/ But, having had some very positive experience with commercial outdoor 802.11a/b/g access points built around Linux single board computers (SBC), I'd really like to move in that general direction. That is, I'd like to build a system with no moving parts, using Linux as the operating system, with miniPCI 802.11 radio cards, and having serial ports to support KISS or 6PACK on TNCs. I'd like the ability to run LinuxNode at the least, or preferrably (X)Net. I'd imagine that the latter would mean that the CPU would have to be x86 compatible, since (X)Net is not open source and only binaries are available for it. The ability to compile the kernel is almost certainly a must, to roll in AX.25 support, etc. Since some of the sites are fairly remote and inaccessible for six months of the year, stability and reliability is an absolute must. For that reason, I'm leaning towards the 2.2 series kernels, as my experience was that it was always rock solid with AX.25 compiled in -- although I did just have 190 days uptime on my gateway with 2.4.24 before it inexplicably rebooted (power bump? -- my UPS is shot). Has anyone already expended some energy along these lines, either time on the drawing boards, or actually spent building such a system? Any words of wisdom? It would be much appreciated. 73 es tnx, Brett Mueller, WA7V -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) iD8DBQFCuE+1+/Ps1x4JxWYRAk7mAJ9JJoNk3vZ0ERokIddWTNpG+N8piACfdx5Q X8hPIkxiQhV27ABjrHsQq78= =dxDx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----