[Soekris] MiniPCI GPS on Net4526

[Robert]

Basically yeah.

We are already setting a bunch for them up to act as a active monitoring
system [poll the APs, make sure they are alive, grab all data, send it
all to a server to analyze it]. Sounds very similar to your system in
fact.

The "war driving" part is more of an exercise in mapping our coverage
and range. 

Before I tell boss man to grab one of these GPS systems I want to make
sure I have this right: I should be able to connect it via the Serial
port on the back of my net4526-20 if the unit says it is serial

Thanks

On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 15:16 -0500, David Dudley wrote:
> War Driving, huh ;-)
> 
> We have a number of the net4801's in the field running kizmet and
> NetBSD with a gps device that talks over the internal serial port.
> 
> The gps's were provided by a contractor, and I've never been able to
> get a model number from them that I can cross ref.  Little card says
> 'powered by SiRF' on it, but I never paid it any mind, it just works.
> 
> Units have a Atheros WiFi mini-pci card, and they're always on the
> lookout for an AP to attach to.
> 
> Our remote units are installed in some of the City maintenance trucks,
> and update a MySQL database on my server here through the network when
> they can attach to it, showing where they found access points, and
> whatever info that kizmet can grab from them.
> 
> System works great, and is NetBSD based.
> 
> David
> 
> >>> Robert <rob.hille at duke.edu> 4/30/2007 3:01 PM >>>
> 
> We are planning to connect a few of them to roving Soekris boxes on
> vans
> to map the AP coverage on our site to get a better idea were coverage
> is.
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 14:54 -0500, RB wrote:
> > I've been fantastically happy with my BR355, but it's still the SiRF
> > StarIII chipset - no problem for me there.  As long as you're using
> a
> > *BSD or a Linux, GPSd should work fine in your OS of choice, and
> > speaks SiRF binary just fine.  Even has a SHM output driver for NTP,
> > if you plan on using it as a time source.  I've never heavily tested
> > it's accuracy for timing, but location has been great: the first GPS
> > system I've tested that I could get a solid in a commercial aircraft
> > without sticking the puck out in the window.
> > 
> > I've got to wonder, though - how much of a driver would it take (if
> > any) to recognize a device presenting 3 UARTs over the PCI bus?  It
> > says they are "16C950" UARTs, which seem to be supported by the
> Linux
> > & BSD in-kernel drivers.  Not being a driver developer, I'm
> wondering
> > if those wouldn't just be automagically picked up and presented as
> > serial devices...  Can anyone more familiar with UART handling come
> to
> > bear on the subject?
> > 
> > 
> > RB
> 
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