Re: ARM/Linux based car stereo?

2011-12-22 Thread Ivan Jager
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 02:27:56PM -0800, Bill Gatliff scribbled: > Thinking out of the box, pardon the pun... > > What if you just put a bluetooth speaker system in your car, and drive > it with your phone or other device? Not as cool! ;) Ideally I'd also like it to not require extra fiddling e

Re: ARM/Linux based car stereo?

2011-12-22 Thread Bill Gatliff
Ivan: On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Ivan Jager wrote: > I suppose I could leave bluetooth on my phone on all the time and have it > start playing automatically when it sees the car, although I > don't expect that would be great for battery life... (It might > not be too bad though.) That is p

Re: single device to replace ADSL router, WiFi/Ethernet router, SIP router?

2011-12-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Lennart Sorensen, Am 2011-12-22 17:08:56, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > Nice CPU. Even has VFP (FPU). Too bad it is ARMv5 so it can't run the > armhf Debian port. Still armel isn't bad. With some hacks I have gotten Debian/ARMEL runing on it without using the provided Closed-Sourc

Re: single device to replace ADSL router, WiFi/Ethernet router, SIP router?

2011-12-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Lennart Sorensen, Am 2011-12-22 10:45:01, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > Sangoma makes FXS/FXO cards and ADSL2+ cards for PCs. Sangoma has only the S518 card which is an old outdated ADSL card which support only 8 Mbit RAW downstream and 762 kbit RAW upstream. Paul and me searching for

Re: ARM/Linux based car stereo?

2011-12-22 Thread Bill Gatliff
Thinking out of the box, pardon the pun... What if you just put a bluetooth speaker system in your car, and drive it with your phone or other device? b.g. On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Ivan Jager wrote: > Hi, > > I'm in the market for a new car stereo, and was wondering if yinz > would know

Re: single device to replace ADSL router, WiFi/Ethernet router, SIP router?

2011-12-22 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:07:08PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hello Rob J. Epping, > > > The ADSL (PCI-)cards I found all implement a modem with a network > > card. The network card is detected by the OS and you manage the ADSL > > modem by telnet. Other than the cable there is no advantage.

Re: single device to replace ADSL router, WiFi/Ethernet router, SIP router?

2011-12-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton, > not being funny or anything, but i did a single-box setup. got an > ADSL PCI modem card (which required non-free firmware) Which PCI ADSL2+ Modem card? Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening Michelle Konzack -- # Debian GNU/Linux

Re: single device to replace ADSL router, WiFi/Ethernet router, SIP router?

2011-12-22 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:02:29PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > This sounds for a > > 1) Marvel Discovery MV78100 (Singel-Core 1 GEth) > or MV78200 (Dual-Core 2 GEth) Nice CPU. Even has VFP (FPU). Too bad it is ARMv5 so it can't run the armhf Debian port. Still armel isn't bad. > 2)

Re: single device to replace ADSL router, WiFi/Ethernet router, SIP router?

2011-12-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Rob J. Epping, > The ADSL (PCI-)cards I found all implement a modem with a network > card. The network card is detected by the OS and you manage the ADSL > modem by telnet. Other than the cable there is no advantage. I have the need for a PCI 2.2 ADSL2+ card which I need to integrate into a

Re: single device to replace ADSL router, WiFi/Ethernet router, SIP router?

2011-12-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Paul Wise, Am 2011-12-22 14:15:40, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > I'm looking for a single device (to reduce cabling) to replace this: > > * it needs to run Debian or have at least some potential to do > that. I don't want to have to deal with any pre-installed OSes, >

ARM/Linux based car stereo?

2011-12-22 Thread Ivan Jager
Hi, I'm in the market for a new car stereo, and was wondering if yinz would know of an ARM based one that can run Debian. Something similar to the empeg but about a decade newer would be nice. I've searched the internets and find a lot of x86 based carpc's/carputers and even articles about runnin

Re: single device to replace ADSL router, WiFi/Ethernet router, SIP router?

2011-12-22 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 12:01:17PM -0800, Bill Gatliff wrote: > I really, really hate this idea. :) I much prefer having a > bootloader in NAND, so that I'm not beholden to all the i/o necessary > to read it from somewhere more complicated and less controllable. It supports loading it from SATA,

Re: single device to replace ADSL router, WiFi/Ethernet router, SIP router?

2011-12-22 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: so yes, you're right: the CPU *itself* doesn't know - it starts up and executes from a fixed address, but depending on the CPU, the [unchangeable] on-board micro-bootloader does "know". Also I think there's an OpenCores VHDL FAT reader, so if a design has a

Re: single device to replace ADSL router, WiFi/Ethernet router, SIP router?

2011-12-22 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Bill Gatliff wrote: > In addition, I really, really hate the quality levels I am seeing with > uSD/eMMC devices right now.  I know they are all internally based on > NAND, why not ditch the little microcontroller they must also include > and talk to a NAND directl

Re: single device to replace ADSL router, WiFi/Ethernet router, SIP router?

2011-12-22 Thread Bill Gatliff
Guys: On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > In terms of being unbrickable, I am very impressed by my i.MX53 quick > start board.  The bootloader is on microSD.  Any actual board designed > with it could have the boot loader on a SATA disk if desired.  There is > no boot rom

Re: single device to replace ADSL router, WiFi/Ethernet router, SIP router?

2011-12-22 Thread Adrian Levi
On Dec 22, 2011 4:16 PM, "Paul Wise" wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm looking for a way to replace my current home network infrastructure > with a single device running Debian. I currently have these devices: Billion Bipac 7404vgnox does what you want except for cordless phone, local storage and Debian

Re: single device to replace ADSL router, WiFi/Ethernet router, SIP router?

2011-12-22 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: >> Honestly, that's not realistic.  Too weird a combined featureset. >> Especially the cordless phone bit. > > > It's certainly an... interesting featureset. I certainly wouldn't denigrate > it, for the same reason that I don't denigrate t

Re: single device to replace ADSL router, WiFi/Ethernet router, SIP router?

2011-12-22 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 06:39:10PM +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > It's certainly an... interesting featureset. I certainly wouldn't > denigrate it, for the same reason that I don't denigrate the effort > that our ISP (Andrews & Arnold, who design their own hardware when > necessary) is putting i

Re: single device to replace ADSL router, WiFi/Ethernet router, SIP router?

2011-12-22 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Lennart Sorensen wrote: I'm looking for a single device (to reduce cabling) to replace this: * it needs to run Debian or have at least some potential to do that. I don't want to have to deal with any pre-installed OSes, custom old OpenWRT builds running Linux 2.4 or other

Re: single device to replace ADSL router, WiFi/Ethernet router, SIP router?

2011-12-22 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 02:15:40PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > I'm looking for a way to replace my current home network infrastructure > with a single device running Debian. I currently have these devices: > > * Siemens SpeedStream 4200. This is an ADSL2+ modem running the > supplied O

Re: single device to replace ADSL router, WiFi/Ethernet router, SIP router?

2011-12-22 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 01:38:04PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 6:15 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm looking for a way to replace my current home network infrastructure > > with a single device running Debian. I currently have these devices: > >

Re: single device to replace ADSL router, WiFi/Ethernet router, SIP router?

2011-12-22 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 6:15 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking for a way to replace my current home network infrastructure > with a single device running Debian. I currently have these devices: > >      * Siemens SpeedStream 4200. This is an ADSL2+ modem running the >        supplied

Re: single device to replace ADSL router, WiFi/Ethernet router, SIP router?

2011-12-22 Thread Sander
Rob J. Epping wrote (ao): > > ? ? ?* it needs to have ADSL2+ support, > > The ADSL (PCI-)cards I found all implement a modem with a network > card. The network card is detected by the OS and you manage the ADSL > modem by telnet. Other than the cable there is no advantage. I have a Traverse Solos

Re: single device to replace ADSL router, WiFi/Ethernet router, SIP router?

2011-12-22 Thread Rob J. Epping
Hi Paul, Interesting question. I'm also interested in what devices come out of this discussion. On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 7:15 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking for a way to replace my current home network infrastructure > with a single device running Debian. I currently have these de