[Elecraft] WinXP - SP3 ... too late!

[Phil Hystad]

Nate,

You are right, the RPi is ARM based -- I completely overlooked that most important part of the problem.  I wonder if Elecraft would release the source to their Linux utilities.  

Actually, a better RPi solution would be to use the RPi as a network gateway and cache server for clients running on Mac/Linux/Windows.  If we could develop/design a nice networking protocol to operate between the client utilities and the gateway server then a WiFi enabled RPi would be a nice feature.  The next thing would be to develop an outboard multi-port RS232 adapter.  Part of a networking protocol would be addressing individual Elecraft rigs.

Yes, something to think through...

PEH


On Mar 29, 2014, at 10:14 AM, Nate Bargmann <n0nb at n0nb.us> wrote:

> * On 2014 29 Mar 09:49 -0500, Phil Hystad wrote:
>> Further on this question...
>> 
>> Has anyone tried out the Linux version of the Elecraft utilities on
>> Raspberry Pi?  Oh, maybe I can do that if I steal some time from other
>> projects.  I have never bothered to even look at these Linux version
>> utilities to see what dependencies they might have.
> 
> As I understand it, the fundamental problem with the Elecraft utilities
> will be the CPU architecture difference.  The current utilities are
> compiled for the i386 and later Intel CPUs while the RPi is an ARM CPU
> with a thoroughly different instruction set.  Often times a simple
> recompilation of the source code is all that is necessary, but that will
> be up to Elecraft's software maintainers to do so.  
> 
> In short, the archive currently available from the Elecraft Web site in
> all likelihood will not run on the Pi.
> 
> 73, de Nate >>
> 
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