Hello Lief (and all)
I have Linrad, I run Knoppix. I have no idea how to set Linrad up. I have messed this for some time, with no success. My experience is similar to that of Mike, W5UC, and I am no dummy in this area of computers, as I have done my share of programming and computer construction/modifications.The setup of LIinrad is just too complex for me to take the time. We need from you, Lief, a step by step procedure. It would be good for you to have someone as your assistant who is a user rather than a programmer/developer, who.could write up a clear procedure and present it in the step-by-step form. I feel this is the only way most of us are going to be able to share in the advantages of Linrad. At 03:28 3/9/2007, you wrote: >Hello Mike, > > > I spent around 3 months in Linux Hell trying to get Linrad going > > and vowed that Linux would never again run on any machine I own. I > > plan to keep that vow. > > >From the conversations we had, only two mails in my files, >my impression is that you had no difficulties with Linux. >Everything was related to Linrad. > >Linrad is very different from Winrad, it is far more complicated >to use and it can be set up for many different purposes. From >what you wrote my impression is that you found Linrad useless >because it was too complicated - but that has nothing to do with >the operating system. You can run Linrad under Windows if you >want to avoid "Linux Hell" but it would have changed nothing. >Linrad behaves exactly the same and puts the same requirements >on the user regardless of the operating system. > >Linrad will allow reception of signals that you can not receive >with Winrad or any other receiver in case you have heavy powerline >noise at the same time as you have strong local signals close >in frequency. It does not come for free. Linrad is not mature >enough to do everything automatically for you. The reason is that >I am looking for usages that we not yet have the hardware for >and I have purpously made Linrad make no assumption about what >hardware the user might have connected. > >Generally Linux is far easier to install than Windows if you >have found a scrap computer with unknown hardware inside. >I have solid experience with Linux, Win 98 and Win 2000. >To make Windows work one has to find out what the hardware >really is, then one might be lucky to find drivers on >the Internet. With Linux everything is usually included >and installed automatically. It is of course very >different with new computers where the manufacturer >supplies a CD with Windows drivers for exactly the >hardware you bought. Linux may not have them (yet) and >that is surely a problem. > >Have a look here: >http://www.sm5bsz.com/linuxdsp/install/distrib.htm >Linrad runs under every Linux distribution that I have >tested (29 of them) and I have no reason to believe >it would not run on any other distribution. I have >tried several computers from Pentium 133 MHz up to >modern ones. Surely there are difficulties in >installing modern Linux distributions on old >computers that do not have enough memory - but >Windows is not difficult, it is simply impossible. > >Linux has better real-time properties as compared to >Windows 2000 (and Win 98 is bad) I only have Windows XP >on modern laptops so I do not know if it is better. >(I refuse to pay for making a test with XP on elderly >computers) On modern computers any operating system >is perfectly adequate for SDR at bandwidths of 100 >kHz and below so it does not really matter. > >I do not think the OS as such is much of a problem. >The real problem is how to find well working drive >routines for the better hardware that we will get >in the future. If manufacturers decide to keep the >internal architecture secret and just supply a CD >with drivers for Windows Vista we will have to >use it until we have software that emulates Vista >for the drive routines. This is what we have to do >to make modern WLAN cards work under Linux..... > >73 > >Leif / SM5BSZ > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Winrad mailing list >[email protected] >http://winrad.org/mailman/listinfo/winrad_winrad.org _______________________________________________ Winrad mailing list [email protected] http://winrad.org/mailman/listinfo/winrad_winrad.org
