On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 11:54:44AM +1030, Berndt Josef Wulf wrote: > On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 12:46 am, Stephane Fillod wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 09:30:33AM -0800, Eric Blossom wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 01:46:22AM +1030, Berndt Josef Wulf wrote: > > > > ppio_ppdev: Not implemented on this platform > > > > > > > > Running NetBSD, I suspect this to be a Linux specific device. > > > > Is there some arch portable way of controlling the parallel port (like > > Linux ppdev) under NetBSD? > > According to the ppbus(4) documentation,there appears to be support for such > device - ppi(4) - see below: > > o a user interface named ppi(4) that allows parallel port access > from outside the kernel without conflicting with kernel-in > drivers.
OK, it's commited to the Hamlib CVS. If you want to give it a try, I cannot test that #ifdef'ed code under a non-BSD system :-) > > > In general we should abstract the interface to the RF front end. > > > The the user would specify -- perhaps through some kind of preference > > > file -- which specific RF front end to use. > > > > Ah, you mean some kind of abstraction library, that is consistent and > > portable, has python binding, yet with a *GPL license? We have it, > > it's called Hamlib[1] :-) There's already support for microtune 4937 and > > 4702 (I haven't tested though), a bunch a various transceivers (incl. > > SDR1000), receivers, kits, etc. > > > > Would that make it? > > > > > > [1] http://hamlib.org > > I have a Microtune 4707 tuner and would be interested in supporting this in > hamlib if it is of any interest. I haven't compared the docs for 4702 and > 4707 but suspect that it should be relatively easy to support both. I was > planing to build a daughter board connecting the tuner to the USRP. Feel free to commit support for the 4707, there's a microtune backend ready for that. Probably some other fine folks have such tuner. Cheers, Stephane _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
