My weird place

20090222

10.140 MHz QRSs beacon

Filed under: FreeBSD, HamRadio, Hardware, Homebrew, Software — xride @ 11:56:22

Got samples from analog.com.brNow to put them into use:

1) get geda installed

2) check/find the schematic symbols

3) check/find the pcb footprint

4) draw the schematc

5) layout a pcb

6) ask a friend to make the pcb

7) go into soldersmoke ( is a podcast actually)

8) make program for a pic or simply control it with an USB to lpt converter

#1 is done, to #2 though symbols needs to be created.

20090120

I’m still alive

Filed under: FreeBSD, HamRadio, Hardware, Software, Work — xride @ 15:13:36

Though having a hard time to find sparetime at the moment.

20080715

Ham radio project.

Filed under: FreeBSD, HamRadio, Homebrew — xride @ 17:58:37

 have been looking at this program for a while: glfer. though i haven’t been able to get it running.

To test it i’m using a homebrewed magnetics loop antenna with an amp and bp filter.

New job.

Filed under: Hardware, Software, Work — xride @ 17:50:42

Started July 1. at Innocom. I finally get to work with both hardware and software.

Not like till now where the majority has been software.

This is going to be fun.

So what am I going to be woking with CATV and other RF applications.

.. Let the fun begin ..

20070506

syslog to a FreeBSD syslogd host.

Filed under: FreeBSD — xride @ 08:08:11

Today I decided to set up some syslog logging of my router.

I enabled syslog logging on the router and pointed it in direction of the syslogd box.

I could see that the syslog packets got to the interface of the syslogd box, but nothing in the logs.

First removed -s from syslogd_flags in /etc/rc.conf, then added -a syslog_src_ip/bitmask to syslogd_flags.

Still nothing in the logs.

Then added -dv to the flags, and found that i got:

rejected in rule 0 due to port mismatch

Well after some searching i found that one could add :* to the -a ip:bitmask line.

Did so and messages got into syslogd, but they did not end up in the right log file.

‘+hostname’ to the rescue, added it at the end of /etc/syslog.conf, still nothing in the right logfile.

Then noticed that the logfile specified in the +hostname block was assigned to the last !program block.

I figured that the right order of /etc/syslog.conf should be:

1) General logging.

2) +hostname block(s).

3) !program block(s).

If not in this order it will not work.

20070426

SD/MMC support for IBM/Lenovo with Ricoh hw

Filed under: FreeBSD — xride @ 22:12:21

About a week ago i came across this post:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2007-April/009666.html

This evning i decided to give it a try.

For a starter, my laptop is a Lenovo 3000 N100 (<LENOVO TP-61> according to acpi).

#pciconf -lv

[SNIP]

none2@pci5:6:1: class=0×080500 card=0×207717aa chip=0×08221180 rev=0×19 hdr=0×00
vendor     = ‘Ricoh Company, Ltd.’
device     = ‘SD Bus Host Adapter’
class      = base peripheral
none3@pci5:6:2: class=0×088000 card=0×207817aa chip=0×08431180 rev=0×01 hdr=0×00
vendor     = ‘Ricoh Company, Ltd.’
device     = ‘unknown Ricoh MMC Host Controller’
class      = base peripheral
none4@pci5:6:3: class=0×088000 card=0×207917aa chip=0×05921180 rev=0×0a hdr=0×00
vendor     = ‘Ricoh Company, Ltd.’
device     = ‘unknown Ricoh Memory Stick Host Controller’
class      = base peripheral
none5@pci5:6:4: class=0×088000 card=0×207a17aa chip=0×08521180 rev=0×05 hdr=0×00
vendor     = ‘Ricoh Company, Ltd.’
device     = ‘unknown Ricoh xD-Picture Card Host Controller’
class      = base peripheral
This are some of the hard facts.

Getting src/sys patched up was somewhat easy. There is one small problem though.

The function ‘ bus_setup_intr()’ has lately changed the number of arguments.

after looking at some other drivers i decided to try and just add NULL,.

It compiled then, even loaded as a module.

sdh0: <SD Host Controller> mem 0xb0300400-0xb03004ff irq 23 at device 6.1 on pci5

sdh0: Found 1 slots

sdh0: [ITHREAD]

Everything looks fine.. atleast till i decide to hotplug a sd card .. whoops reboot no panic.

Debugging will continue later..

20070425

What things are called and can do

Filed under: FreeBSD, Uncategorized — xride @ 12:16:19

Dru posted this on IRC today:

http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/unix/bsd/archives/unix-humour-15908

I specially like the ‘make love’ one.

20070319

What am I doing?

Filed under: FreeBSD, HamRadio — xride @ 15:03:40

Currently looking on http://www.scps.org

Why am I doing this? To figure out if it could be usable for Ham Radio instead of tcp/ip over ax.25.

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