(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Now, if we could just wean a few smart Ham's from win to puppy, we would start rolling.. CQ-DX puppy
- echolink works under wine, but needs cpu power & RAM + mic drivers.
- Log progs, depends on your needs...
- cat progs... need to run wine, cpu power & RAM
sstv, rtty, amtor, packet... general progs for ham modes ... well I don't know...
It would be great if some ham brains got interested in puppy,
as puppy's footprint is small and fast, leaves room for ham progs
73's to all
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Hi maddox,

I've been sending links to my Cuban amigo Prof. Arnaldo Coro for months as he can't access this forum due to the US embargo.

I would very much appreciate if someone could package the ham info so I could send Arnie the forum information for the Cubans to use.

If you are not aware of Prof. Arnaldo Coro..he is a world renowned ham/emergency ham teacher.(google it..also Arnie Coro)

I have provided Puppy Linux for hams to the Cubans from this link http://puppylinux.ca/puppyfiles/custom/EMCpup/

Now it's time for the Cubans to have a voice here on the forum..alas they don't have access. I have no political incentive here...just a bridge for users that need Puppy...and they ARE using Puppy.

Eric

Caneri wrote:Hi maddox,

I've been sending links to my Cuban amigo Prof. Arnaldo Coro for months as he can't access this forum due to the US embargo.

I would very much appreciate if someone could package the ham info so I could send Arnie the forum information for the Cubans to use.

If you are not aware of Prof. Arnaldo Coro..he is a world renowned ham/emergency ham teacher.(google it..also Arnie Coro)

I have provided Puppy Linux for hams to the Cubans from this link http://puppylinux.ca/puppyfiles/custom/EMCpup/

Now it's time for the Cubans to have a voice here on the forum..alas they don't have access. I have no political incentive here...just a bridge for users that need Puppy...and they ARE using Puppy.

Eric

Hey Eric thanks for telling me that the cuban's have problems, what crap is that!!
you could give them this link also
http://www.proxyindex.com/proxy.php?q=a ... cGhw&p=1e3
it worked for the china population also
ttuuxxx

Caneri wrote:Hi maddox,

I've been sending links to my Cuban amigo Prof. Arnaldo Coro for months as he can't access this forum due to the US embargo.

Are you sure that it's not an embargo placed by the ISP that hosts this forum or the owner? For a long time Arnie could not post to the QRP-L mailing list due to a ban placed by the domain owner, but after a lot of complaints from list members, he can now post.

Last time I saw him post, Arnie is using an older version of EMCpup.

Caneri wrote: I have provided Puppy Linux for hams to the Cubans from this link http://puppylinux.ca/puppyfiles/custom/EMCpup/

That's good, as the author of EMCPup doesn't keep older versions of the software available for download.

I don't know much about ham radio, but isn't this the sort of software that would be useful?

http://cqinet.sourceforge.net/

Hi Caneri, muggins, djringjr and all the other HAM's out there in puppy-land..

@Caneri, thanks for the great hosting...
@muggins, thanks for the compile time, and the supplied link info.

I'll try out echolinux and the other software, will keep you posted.

off-topic:
Wow, puppy unleashed, gives a whole new meaning to that word...
puppy through a Transmitter, long-wire, ether, internet, puppy..
- Virtual-puppy or teleportation ?

on-topic:
yes, it would be great if some HAM's could package their progs for puppy.
I think that the HAM programmers learnt the win coding thing, and aren't convinced (learning curve) about puppy.

Also limited knowledge, specific programming tools-info in puppy-linux seem missing
.

This is a bit different. Its about hamradio voip. I try to use echolink and eqso over linux. Some hams used ubuntu 7.10 to run echolink and eqso successfully. I have ubuntu. But I want to keep a low profile by using puplinux 3.01 on my two pcs (one notebook and one tower). Dingo, Erikson and Bruce have given me some tips with wine and its opengl. I have successfully downloaded, installed and used wine 0.9.58 and opengl 7.2 on puplinux 3.01 tower to run echolink and eqso. I was able to listen (rx) only. But the sound quality was too much treble, sharp or narrow than the sound produced by windows. Also I couldn't use my working mic (no response or no tx). Linux sound mixer couldn't help to adjust my audio the way I like. Any suggestion to find a better sound mixer for puplinux 3.01? Appreciate it. Thanks!

PS. Originally I posted above report on "How to install wine on puppy linux" forum over here.

wyn, ab2qv

This is the link to How to install Wine to PupLinux: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=27963.
I request to anyone in charge or maybe Murga if he can transfer above topic or forum under Beginners to How to forum. I try to find linux native application of echolink and eqso if there is. Meanwhile I use Wine to interface those hamradio voip apps. But no luck with sound quality and mic. Any tip would be appreciated it. Thanks and 73 de wyn, ab2qv.

@k4bbob

Good luck in sunspot cycle 24, peaking in 2012. Get your stuff ready, now.

Hi Bob

Would you care to elaborate on the expected effects of this, as it seems there are other convergances occurring then , too

.....Quite apart from all the big brother paranoia stuff!

Aitch [Never quite made it to be a ham, - now I'm too old ]

I had difficulty getting Echolink to run under Wine 9.54 in Puppy 3.01. I was able to receive audio, but couldn't transmit any. It looked like PTT wasn't working completely - transmit audio level meter jumping erratically when using the ECHOTEST server and nothing coming back.

There is a Linux answer to Echolink: QTel (QT Echolink), and it's available here:
http://svxlink.sourceforge.net/
I believe I used the Debian binary, and there may be a newer version at packages.debian.org. I use stuff from "lenny", now, rather than "etch".

The only hangup I had, after hunting down all the dependencies, was using the right version of libsigc++, as mentioned in the installation section. It pays to read carefully.

It's not as flashy as the Windows Echolink, but it works!

Spanky (aka Kent VE4KEH)

iang wrote:Interesting to find some ham radio Puppy users.

There's a real shortage of ham radio software for Linux. Has anyone tried using Wine & WIndows based software?

Contest loggers, rig control software, propagation software etc. There's a lot of shareware based programmes in Windows, but very little on Linux.

Iang, aka G4FSU

Actually, I have vx-5 commander working in wine on Debian, but read only. Haven't figured out how to write back to the device. Some sort of serial port usb cable issue.

Also got my icom pcr-100 working in Ubuntu/wine.

So it is possible.

Would use Linux equivalents if they were out there!

Rich kg6jse

1/ Harley XD said

we better be careful, we could end up with a whole new group, HamPuppies, ....also forget Wine, virtualbox is a free open source version of VM Ware, GET THAT THING .pup'ed

do the first, read here for the second
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=14951
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=21617
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=20794
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=16905
Also BruceB has info about & uses VMs in puppy

or, just find your own solutions, [bookmark the searchtool]

http://www.wellminded.com/puppy/pupsearch.html

2/ I assume people are aware of this, - see john doe's question earlier

http://www.w1hkj.com/flpuppy.html

maddox wrote:yes, it would be great if some HAM's could package their progs for puppy.
I think that the HAM programmers learnt the win coding thing, and aren't convinced (learning curve) about puppy

3/ When I was a lot younger, geeks WERE radio hams, and didn't have PCs
It's funny how geeks became specialised, isn't it?
ham geeks, windoze geeks, windoze & ham geeks, & linux/puppy geeks
It seems a bit late for the addition of category linux/puppy &ham geeks,
isn't it?
Put the skates on lads, there's some catching up to do - and if Microsh*t has their way we'll have no internet to use, so ham will become the new backbone for 'free' communication

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=26964
http://www.savetheinternet.com/

4/ see my last post here;
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=26811


Enjoy,

Aitch [to old to do it all, now, but still interested!]

PS Someone asked about VOIP?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/speak-freely/

I have fldigi on a USB memory stick up and running on my eeePC. I want to control my ICOM 703 using a RigExpert Tiny, which uses an FTDI chip to interface between USB and the ICOM CI-V interface.

Under Puppy, the USB drivers are /dev/usb/ttyUSB0 and /dev/usb/ttyUSB1.

I have been editing the RigCAT .xml file for the 703 without success. (After editing, I place it in "root" with the name ".fldigi.xml")

Other than changing the name of the driver in the XML file, what else should I be doing? Obviously, the XML files were written under the assumption the interface would be a TTY Com port. Can I just change a few more lines of XML, or is it a big deal?

Don NR7X

I have been editing the RigCAT .xml file for the 703 without success. (After editing, I place it in "root" with the name ".fldigi.xml")

I believe you're supposed to change the name to 'rig.xml'. Also, it should go into the /root/.fldigi directory.

Spanky (aka VE4KEH)

There was a derivative of puppy called "DigiPup" based upon 2.16. I have a copy that is currently gathering dust. I am wondering if it would be possible to interface my pc with my ICOM IC-28 using the sound card? However, I supposed I would have to try to install Fldigi and Geoid onto Puppy 3.01 (I am using derivative ChurchPup). I suppose I can check the grafpup site to see if there is either a pup or pet file. I will check and let everyone know.



Christopher
KF6SNJ

Yes, I know, I have a California call and I live in Washington, blame the Navy. However, I don't plan to change it either.



Five minutes later:


You can find listings for fldigi, geoid, and logbook at:

http://www.w1hkj.com/flpuppy.html

They were all pet files. However, they don't appear to be there anymore. Will keep looking.

http://www.w1hkj.com/emcpup.html



73,
Christopher
KF6SNJ

I've got a few files here

http://www.puppylinux.ca/puppyfiles/custom

Look under EMCpup

Hope there is a use as I want to keep the older stuff.
Best,
Eric

EDIT: Does anyone know how to contact EMCpup's maker? I would like to post a link to his site on my pages at puppylinux.ca

pm me if you have a contact for EMCpup.

I installed the pet files from the EMCpup site and they worked beautifully. I now have ChurchPup 3.01 with Amateur Radio digital mode capability. How cool is that?


Christopher
KF6SNJ

If you guys are interested I could posts the pets for 3 satellite trackers from the new Cloudy Skies Live CD. They are Predict, Mtrack and Gsat. There might already be a pet of one of these floating around Puppy somewhere. (Must be getting old.)

That could be useful. I may someday try my hand at either satelite or EME. In either case, I'd likely stick with two meters.


Christopher
KF6SNJ