The phone itself is pretty nice, use Linux (yes !! kernel 2.6.10 inside ) and can be hacked: http://opentwin.org/

You can use it to surf quite well. Opera does a really good job, and you can even watch TV for free.. This phone is a good piece of stuff for the price.

Hum, I ‘m guessing you will see some new post about Asterisk or other fun stuff here soon ;)

/Enjoy VoIP

The only issue: I need to take it back to my computer when I want to upload a new film, that’s it .. When I first received this gift, I went back to the shop to exchange it against a networked one. But 1) they cost a lot more money, 2) not available at the shop. (even if it’s a really big one).

Last week, somebody sent me a mail. He found some cheap wireless access point with a USB port: Netgear WGT634U. (50Euro) Hum, ok let’s give it a try. First test, plug a Media Player to this USB port… ok It’s working fine. But you know, I don’t have a network cable near my bed, so I decided to transform the Access Point in a Wireless client. By this way, I can simply plug the Media Player on the WGT634U and remotely put some Divx via FTP, without any wire.

# hit Ctrl-C on the bootloader
CFE> ifconfig eth0 -auto
CFE> flash -noheader tftp_host:openwrt-wgt634u.bin flash0.os
CFE> reboot

config wifi-iface
option device   wifi0
option network  lan
option mode     sta
option ssid     MyDummySSID
option hidden   0
option encryption none

#### LAN configuration
config interface lan
option type     bridge
option ifname   "eth0.0"
option proto    'static'
option ipaddr   '192.168.3.2'
option netmask  '255.255.255.0'
option gateway  '192.168.3.1'
option dns      '192.168.1.254'

#!/bin/sh

# clear all firewall rules
for T in filter nat mangle ; do
iptables -t $T -F
iptables -t $T -X
done

# drop incomming packet
iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT
iptables -P OUTPUT  ACCEPT
iptables -P INPUT   DROP

# accept traffic on localhost
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -i lo -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -p udp -i lo -j ACCEPT

# accept ftp only from my home network
iptables -A INPUT -s 192.168.1.0/24 -p tcp -i br-lan --dport 21 -j ACCEPT

# accept incoming http / ssh
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT

# finaly accept already open Cnx
iptables -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT

#!/bin/sh

while true
do
{
STATE=$(iwconfig ath0 |grep  00:13:13:53:DA:D1 | wc -l)
[ $STATE -eq 1 ] && echo 0 > /proc/diag/led/power
[ $STATE -eq 0 ] && echo 1 > /proc/diag/led/power
sleep 20
}
done

Step 6 / Finally

Here the result:

The finished product (grrr) works really fine and managed to achieve something like 850Ko/sec, I mean full speed ;) (11Mbs network) I need to remove the serial port right now, and close the box..

Important update

I read on Engadget that I use this to stream video to my TV, (like the Apple TV do), but this is absolutely wrong. This media player has a 320Go hard-drive. Why would stream film on this ? I just put it on that’s it :)

This is really amazing how people doesn’t read the article to see what I’ve done. It’s not the first time this happen in fact.

Here in France, most advanded users have some network TV from a long time, and this little boxes can play network stream (like the Apple TV) for a long time now. Beside you don’t pay for this service (rent for the boxes are included in DSL bill), the only issue is that you must have another computer to stream.

I guess nobody here (in France) would by a Apple TV, since we already have this kind of products for free for a long time. Look at a Freebox for example.

It’s time to watch a film :)

Here on my shuttle .. not working

aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: IXP [ATI IXP], device 0: ATI IXP AC97 [ATI IXP AC97]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: IXP [ATI IXP], device 1: ATI IXP IEC958 [ATI IXP IEC958 (AC97)]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Here on another box (VIA C3 based)

aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: V8235 [VIA 8235], device 0: VIA 8235 [VIA 8235]
Subdevices: 4/4
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
card 0: V8235 [VIA 8235], device 1: VIA 8235 [VIA 8235]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

So yes the C3 can play 4 stream at the same time, while the AC97 doesn’t.

Another way to do this is to use software mixing

Update:

To use the software mix in Alsa: simply change the pcm.default to pcm.dmix

#pcm.default cards.pcm.default
pcm.default pcm.dmix

This is really a bad news to all webcam users: USB kernel hackers decide to patch PWC kernel driver to avoid the use of the extended kernel module which is binary only. Check out this for more infos.

update: read this thread. Why Philips doesn’t provide spec ?

• Download latest eagle-usb
• Untar
• make
• make install
• eagleconfig (to enter your config..)
• rm /etc/init.d/eagle-usb (this doesn’t work on debian ..)
• eaglectl -w (to load kernel modules and so on..)
• startadsl

So i decided to hack it:

Take care that alsa-base ask you which sound card you have. This is needed for building the init-script.

Next:

cd /usr/src/
tar xvfj  alsa-driver.tar.bz2
cd modules/alsa-driver
./configure
make
make install
/etc/init.d/alsa start

Take care that by default all mixer are off !!

– Enjoy using gnomemeeting

As you can see here. The ipaq runs Xipaq and a rxvt.



I pretty like the sshd running on iPaq. It really make it damn kool.

cat /proc/cpuinfo
Processor       : Intel StrongARM-1110 rev 6 (v4l)
BogoMIPS        : 137.21
Features        : swp half 26bit fastmult

Hardware        : Compaq iPAQ H3600
Revision        : 0000
Serial          : 0000000000000000

sh-2.03# ps aux
USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root         1  0.0  1.8  1288  556 ?        S    Jan13   0:04 init [2]
root         2  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SW   Jan13   0:00 [keventd]
root         3  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SWN  Jan13   0:00 [ksoftirqd_CPU0]
root         4  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SW   Jan13   0:00 [kswapd]
root         5  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SW   Jan13   0:00 [bdflush]
root         6  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SW   Jan13   0:00 [kupdated]
root         7  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SW   Jan13   0:00 [mtdblockd]
root         9  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SWN  Jan13   0:00 [jffs2_gcd_mtd1]
root        84  0.0  2.2  1400  692 ?        S    Jan13   0:00 /sbin/cardmgr
root        91  0.0  3.6  2900 1124 ?        S    Jan13   0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
root        99  0.0  5.3  3088 1644 ?        S    Jan13   0:03 Xipaq -screen 240x320@270 -dpi 100
root       116  0.0  3.3  2296 1044 ?        S    Jan13   0:00 x-window-manager
root       121  0.0  7.5  5192 2336 ?        S    Jan13   0:01 x-menu-manager
root       123  0.0  6.5  6000 2016 ?        S    Jan13   0:01 xstroke
root       125  0.0  1.5  1268  480 ttySA0   S    Jan13   0:00 /sbin/getty -L ttySA0 115200 vt100
root       126  0.0  6.5  6000 2016 ?        S    Jan13   0:00 xstroke
root       127  0.0  6.5  6000 2016 ?        S    Jan13   0:00 xstroke
root       143  0.0  4.8  2968 1496 ?        S    00:30   0:00 rxvt-aa -fn mono-7:minspace=true
root       144  0.0  4.1  2308 1276 pts/0    S    00:30   0:00 sh
root       145  0.0  2.9  1824  896 pts/0    S    00:31   0:00 pppd
root       157  0.0  5.2  3300 1612 ?        S    00:31   0:01 /usr/sbin/sshd
root       159  0.0  4.4  2336 1360 pts/1    S    00:31   0:00 -sh
root       186  0.0  2.8  2652  880 pts/1    R    01:01   0:00 ps aux