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You may wonder why this card does not work once you have it installed and the drivers are loading. Check your logs, you are probably missing the firmware that the drivers need to operate.
Here is a good site to reference for getting these devices working in Debian:
I was using DHCP, TFTP and PXE to install debian on a Soekris 4801. The tftp daemon I was using was ATFTPD. It wouldn’t allow the Soekris to PXE boot until I changed a startup parameter in /etc/default/ataftpd. I added ‘–no-blksize ‘ to the list of startup parameters based on some blog entries I found.
The other thing that I had to do was create a symbolic link to pxelinux.cfg -> /tftpboot/debian-installer/i386/pxelinux.cfg.serial-9600/ instead of pxelinux.cfg. This works much better with the installer over a serial terminal.
Here are some useful blog links for installing linux on a Soekris single board computer.
http://wiki.soekris.info/Installing_Debian_Linux_5.0
http://strugglers.net/wiki/Debian_on_Soekris
http://roland.entierement.nu/pages/debian-on-soekris-howto.html
http://www.linuxvillage.ca/support/soekris4801.html#inst
http://hugi.to/blog/archive/2006/12/23/ubuntu-pxe-install-via-windows
And a link to Soekris engineering: http://www.soekris.com/index.htm
I’ve wanted to stream from my SqueezeCenter to a radio for a while, this looks like one way to do it. It works but I’m still looking for alternatives.
The Griffin RocketFM is a USB device that can be plugged into a computer to broadcast sound over FM to radios in very close proximity. I found code and instructions for using the RocketFM under Linux here: http://tipok.org.ua/node/9 . (Thanks to Tipok.org.ua by the way). I followed the instructions there and built this little code on my Slug (NSLU2) and installed mpg123 on the slug. (apt-get install mpg123-alsa). Then you set the frequency the rocket is supposed to transmit at like this:
/usr/local/bin/rocket -freq 106.6
Then start mpg123 to play through squeezecenter, which I already had installed.
mpg123 -b 512 –gapless -T http://192.168.1.1:9000/stream.mp3
You don’t have to use all the switches, but I found these are working well for me right now.
Make sure SqueezeCenter is set to play something then tune in the radio to the station you set and you should be hearing it on the radio. Sometimes it takes a few seconds to buffer the stream and start to play.
I was amazed it worked at all, but it works OK. Great use for a slug as a personal radio station. I’d like to see if there is a way to get more range out ofthe RocketFM but I’m sure the range is limited by law.
I had some trouble installing Squeezecenter (formerly Slimserver) on Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04). Everything goes according to the instructions from the Slim Devices (Logitech) web sites but once you try to access the web server problems pop up.
It seems the issues stem from Apparmor. A program used to protect certain settings on Ubuntu. you can see the issued in /var/log/messages.
After a lot of digging the answer was available here: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7580#c1
There is probably a more elegant solution but this will work for now, and I just wanted to point anyone else in this direction in case others have problems.
The Squeezebox Duet is the latest player from Slim Devices. It flips the current Squeezebox paradigm on its ear. In the current incarnation the remote is dumb and the playback information is on the device, probably located by the stereo in a harder-to-see location. The Duet turns the player into a black box and puts the display in the palm of your hand in an i-pod like incarnation with a color display.
I really like the squeezebox products, but seeing the display has often made it easier to just control playback using my computer. The new Duet may change this. The Duet has not been released but the price shown is $399 USD. The black boxes, plainly called “receiver” will cost $149 USD.
I’m looking forward to this.