Nishanth' tech rambles

keep a watch... next story on the cheap omap boards... ?? - the page is still in progress.. i'd keep a watch on the rss

http://opensource.indt.org/omapbuilds/ -> this is good thing.. something finally to give a bird's eye view of things.. mebbe a tiny perl script will manage to do a daily bootlog.. gotta figure that one out..

http://www.phonemag.com/e28-show-working-android-cellphone-video-from-mwc-02950.php with OMAP730 (gosh that is old...) The real stuff with OMAP3430: http://www.phonemag.com/texas-instruments-touchscreen-android-video-demo-02998.php there is youtube videos in both one can enjoy the same.. Here is the KICKER: as predicted -> the OMAP3430 platform in the demo is a SUB 1k USD platform.. See here: http://www.logicpd.com/products/devkit/ti/zoom_mobile_development_kit for development and ordering info... it also has a crappy icon which looks familiar from the video folks... Two useful links from the Site: opensource.ti.com openomap.org (Additions: http://androidzaurus.seesaa.net/article/74237419.html zaurus android) Must have: android internals list: http://groups.google.com/group/android-internals/ wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(mobile_phone_platform ) the Android Site: http://code.google.com/android/

For the folks watching out news, here is a news: http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/02/12/wind_river_montavista_mobile_linux/ a bit funny watching all folks fight over things.. Interesting response from Symbian: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/12/symbian_financials_and_google_challenge/ Also see the competition from Qualcomm and NEC boards: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/02/hands-on-with-g.html The interesting part is that SDP3430 looks hellua lot better that these.. Brain, Brawn and Beauty = SDP?? Anyways, sneaky open labrador... in org.. mebbe it is not time for me to announce, but keep watching TI's offerings for Developers like you and me.. finally boards we can afford, and pretty cool ones too :) On other news, Android fever, see some interesting snaps: http://www.news.com/2300-1041_3-6229980.html?tag=ne.gall.latest The interesting part is TI is showing off OMAP3430 and 850 based Android demos. the link http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,142369-p...

Hmm.. after a long line of trial and errors (and blunders) i am posting this off my wifi connection on my linux boot.. :) on my way in kicking Vista offff my laptop.. anyway, since i plan on doing this all over again, here are the steps: get the binaries of iwlwifi (http://intellinuxwireless.org/) iwlwifi-1.2.25.tgz mac80211-10.0.4.tgz (did not need this) iwlwifi-3945-ucode-2.14.1.5.tgz Get the kernel source: sudo apt-get install kernel-source-2.6.22 unziped the kernel, had to play a bit of stupid tricks such as sudo ln -s /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.22/ /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/source + copy the .config and build files from kernel-header-generic in /usr/src/... to the source directory.. then buidl iwlwifi: a simple "sudo make", copy the firmware: cp iwlwifi-4965-ucode-4.44.1.20/iwlwifi-4965-1.ucode /lib/firmware/ and the same for 3945 sudo make install blacklisting the ipw3945 driver: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist add the line: blacklist ipw3945 edited my /etc/network/inter...

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