http://nanl.de/blog "Wer die Freiheit aufgibt, um Sicherheit zu gewinnen, wird beides verlieren." - Benjamin Franklin Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:52:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As you may know OpenWrt's collection of ported packages is continuesly growing. Many graphical stuff gets ported, as well as graphical desktops and toolkits (lxde, xfce, gnome based on GTK2 - e17 based on the enlightenment foundation libraries - etc.). However there was no approach yet to port the last missing Desktop ... http://nanl.de/blog/2010/02/qtkde-on-openwrt/ OpenWrt is now able to run applications based on toolkit GTK+ on top of DirectFB! Using DirectFB avoids having a full blown X11-server (most times Xorg) running, but having the possibiliy of getting nice GTK2 widgets onto your display without altering applications which are using the toolkit. I was quite happy I ... http://nanl.de/blog/2009/10/gtk2-running-on-top-of-directfb-on-openwrt/ The Ben NanoNote I got a few weeks ago by qi-hardware is now running OpenWrt! The patch, published by the manufacturer ingenic itself, which provides linux support for their SoC's (System-on-a-Chip's), is roughly cleaned up, unneeded stuff is cleared out and it's levelled up to 2.6.25.20 (originally the patch refers ... http://nanl.de/blog/2009/08/openwrt-on-the-ben-nanonote/ I got a Linksys WRT160NL and because I didn't find any pictures of the board nor any data about the serial - here's what I got: [caption id="attachment_183" align="alignnone" width="493" caption="Linksys WRT160NL (click to enlarge)"][/caption] http://nanl.de/blog/2009/07/linksys-wrt160nl/ qi-hardware is a startup (announced 20th of July on linux.com) which set itself the target of manufacturing and deploying  hardware under the idea of "Open Source Hardware" (for details you might want to read the mentioned article on linux.com or on qi-hardware.com itself). This idea might call some analogies to Openmoko ... http://nanl.de/blog/2009/07/qi-hardware/ [gallery link="file"] http://nanl.de/blog/2009/07/and-because-everybody-likes-screenshots/ Long time no news regarding OpenWrt <-> the Openmoko Neo devices; but it happened much! It now reached a state where I think it's justified to announce a ready-to-work(/debug?) OpenWrt-Image for the Openmoko Freerunner. This should be a short overview of what happened - kernel 2.6.30.1 is running all neo-specific patches were extracted from the ... http://nanl.de/blog/2009/07/131/ While getting the phone suite "paroli" (http://paroli-project.org) working on OpenWrt, I got some thrown exceptions in the OpenWrt-environment which I didn't get in the official OM-builds. I tried to figure out what exactly is causing the exception on the OpenWrt-target and created a minimal program which raises it: You don't have to ... http://nanl.de/blog/2009/06/asserts-in-python-may-not-work-as-expected/ Besides the ongoing work related to the Openmoko Freerunner <-> OpenWrt integration, I decided to focus on multimedia application ports for OpenWrt. The Xbox Multimedia Center (xbmc -> http://www.xbmc.org), which I'm using (and lovin') for several years on my Xbox now, was starting getting ported to Linux quite some time ago. The ... http://nanl.de/blog/2009/05/some-updates-of-whats-going-on/ [caption id="attachment_197" align="alignnone" width="523" caption="Hamish (hcg), Felix (nbd), Lars, Imre (Kaloz), Nico, Peter (noz), Mirko, John (blogic)"][/caption] http://nanl.de/blog/2009/02/openwrt-team-fosdem/