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Nikos Balkanas nbalkanas at gmail.com
Tue May 15 08:45:01 UTC 2018


Hi Domi,

You don't understand. I'm neither afraid or enthusiastic about it.
I cannot test yet. Still waiting on my phone:(

Nikos

On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 11:26 AM, Tomcsányi, Domonkos <domi at tomcsanyi.net>
wrote:

> Hi Nikos,
>
> I’m really happy to see someone being so enthusiastic about testing out
> OsmocomBB. It is definitely one of the most intereting open-source projects
> out there.
>
> However I feel like there is an imbalance between the amount of mails
> being sent and the amount of fiddling done. Don’t take this the wrong way,
> but if you attempted to compile the code and test it out, or watch some
> talks/videos you would not need to search for osmocon or try to extend it
> with USB support. I am only saying this because the amount of time spent on
> writing the mails in question would have been enough, in my opinion, to
> actually do the task in question. Therefore it does not always make sense
> to write an email before just trying it out. Don’t worry about trying out
> things, there is not much chance of you breaking anything :).
> All in all this software was created, as far as I know by people testing
> and trying tirelessly and eventually succeeding in achieving their goals.
> This is the spirit of hacking and open-source.
>
> Happy hacking, get your fingers dirty :)!
>
> Domi
>
>
> 2018. máj. 15. dátummal, 6:22 időpontban Nikos Balkanas <
> nbalkanas at gmail.com> írta:
>
>
> I guess, both are serial protocols and the hardware adaptor takes care of
> legit default serial values.
> Still the problem is to find a free available usb port for communication:(
> Will have to test and see:)
>
>
> Nikos
>
> On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 7:02 AM, Nikos Balkanas <nbalkanas at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Ty Craig,
>>
>> I'll try it for myself before changing anything:)
>>
>> I'm surprised, however, that osmocon can work like that. RS232 interfaces
>> need different initialization (baud rate, stop bits, parity, etc) that usb
>> doesn't understant!
>>
>> Nikos
>>
>> On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 5:24 AM, Craig Comstock <
>> craig at unreasonablefarm.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Nikos,
>>>
>>> > Planning to add usb support to osmocon.
>>> > Is there any interest for a patch, or should I do it just for myself?
>>> >
>>> > PS: You can convert a USB port to serial with a USB2serial converter:)
>>>
>>> Exactly. I have mostly used a USB to serial adapter without modifying
>>> osmocom-bb code at all. At one point I also built osmocom-bb natively on a
>>> raspberry-pi and was able to operate that way to some extent.
>>>
>>> -Craig
>>>
>>
>>
>
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