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Carman 0.7 beta 2 out

The video below demonstrates Infoshare feature in Carman 0.7 beta 2:

Main difference to beta 2:

  * Infoshare feature does not need Pidgin anymore
  * Carman supports up to 4 connected buddies
  * Jabber/MSN/Yahoo are the supported protocols
  * Infoshare daemon: infosharingd handles all communication between Carman
    and libpurple, using DBus.
  * A lot of improvements in carman-evas code

Thanks Carman team !

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Bossa 09 : photos and presentations

Nice days at Porto de Galinhas with good presentations and a great opportunity to share open source experiences. That was Bossa Conference 2009!

You can see some presentations posted by Bossa guys and great pictures posted at Marcelo’s flickr.

I’m still waiting for new posts at http://openbossa.blip.tv/ with presentations from Koen, Kate and Barbieri.

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Using open wlan driver stlc45xx with Maemo

Yesterday I tested the open source WLAN driver stlc45xx developed by Kalle Valo and community.

First I tested it with Maemo using a simple open wlan network and it works fine.

The problems that I faced:

* Missing tools
You will need some tools that does not came with the original image. Some extra packages installed(wireless-tools dropbear-server libicd-network-dummy dropbear-scp) using an extra repositories. I installed the packages with default Maemo kernel(2.6.21-omap1) to have access to internet during the installing of preview packages.

* RD flags did not work properly
Using all flags defined by README the device turn off without any output or error message. :( I used the “flags no-omap-wd, no-lifeguard-reset” as Briglia and it works. ;)

* Navegate using Maemo browser
Maemo does not recognize the WLAN interface and I’m not able to select a network using the UI. So I connected to network using Xterm, but anyway I was not able to navegate using MaemoBrowser. It was necessary to create a DUMMY connection say the Maemo ICD that network is available.

I did some notes and it’s available on my wiki page.

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Bossa Conference 09: I’ll see you there

http://www.bossaconference.indt.org/

http://www.bossaconference.indt.org/

Bossa is gonne be a great opportunity to share experience related to Open Source and Embedded development.

I selected some presentations that I won’t miss.

* Koen Koin – Multimedia and OMAP CPUs

* Marcel Holtmann – New NM for Embedded Linux systems

* Kate Alhola – Maemo 5 (freemantle)

I’ll see you there!

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