Scott VE3QBZPacket radio alt-OS experiments.
Jared McNeill@scott you might be the first to test the direwolf package on NetBSD!
@jmcneill I noticed there is a package available, but I'd probably also take a run at building the newer 1.8 dev branch as well. Linbpq should build OK - it has a FreeBSD build flag that excludes the couple weird little Linux specific bits it supports (eg. raw AX2.5 packets over ethernet).
I'll be playing around with this over the next few days, despite, as the meme suggests, having a long list of other things I should be playing around with first lol.
@scott Oh did you build it out of tree? I ported and packaged it about a year ago, before realizing 1) uaudio(4) didn't like the USB audio adapter that I wanted to use for it, and 2) direwolf was hopelessly little-endian only and I had hoped to run it on a Nintendo Wii. So I never got around to testing it properly.
@jmcneill No I haven't done anything yet, besides familiarize myself with installing NetBSD in a VM for now :) I didn't realize I was talking to the person that created the package :)
I guess I should pass through the Yaesu USB interface and confirm the audio is going to be supported before going too far.
Were you going to run a packet node on a Wii? That sounds like a noble thing (I'd wondered about an idle PS3 along those lines, but I'd go x86 if I like this as a packet node OS)
@scott That was the original plan yeah, but I got distracted by other things and didn't get back to it.
@jmcneill It's just distractions all the way down, good to know I am in good company :)
When I get a packet node running on NetBSD I'll let you know! At a minimum, I will at least AXUDP connect a BPQ node to my existing Linux node, but the real goal would be using Direwolf (or failing that, a hardware TNC) to do the real deal on RF. Direwolf would be the ideal though.