RE: [Discuss-gnuradio] Intel Atom is NICE.

[Bob McGwier]

I did do the install.  BEWARE, steps are required.  PAY ATTENTION.

You need to do a BIOS upgrade to the Dec. 2008 version of the BIOS.  

I chose to use the ISO to CD ROM and boot from the CD ROM.  I tried several
times to flash the BIOS and it never succeeded.  If I hit F2 after reboot it
said that I still had the old BIOS.  On reboot each time, it said I had a
checksum error.


IF ANYONE CAN SHOW ME WHERE IN THE INSTRUCTIONS IT SAYS THIS IS A TWO PASS
PROCESS OR WHERE DURING THE COURSE OF DOING THE FLASH IT SAYS THIS IS A TWO
STEP PROCESS, I WOULD BE PLEASED TO BE TOLD I AM BLIND.

After you do the boot to the ISO CD ROM, and you tell it run,  it runs and
then reboots.  YOU ARE NOT DONE.

On the second reboot,  it THEN flashes the BIOS and succeeds.  I was
removing the CD ROM each time after boot  "so it wouldn't do it again" and
the checksum error was its BRILLIANT message that it had failed to read the
image on the CD.  Give me a break!


After that was finally accomplished,  the Ubuntu 8.10 and F10 CD/DVD
respectively started without a kernel panic.  Also, the BIOS setup page
reveals a new banner page saying "Intel 64 Bit processor compatible" and not
"EM64T Processor capable".

I have compiled and done make distcheck on Ubuntu 8.10 AMD64 and it works.
The GigE works.  I just did all of this yesterday and have not had a chance
to plugin in my USRP2 yet.

Bob


ARRL SDR Working Group Chair
Member: ARRL, AMSAT, AMSAT-DL, TAPR, Packrats,
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-----Original Message-----
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John Gumb
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 9:02 AM
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Subject: Fw: [Discuss-gnuradio] Intel Atom is NICE.

I'd also expect better performance if running a 64 bit OS. When I get chance
I'll install Fedora 10 x86_64 on my D945GCLF2.

cheers

John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Cottrell" <address@hidden>
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Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 3:27 AM
Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Intel Atom is NICE.


> ----- Start Original Message -----
> Sent: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:53:06 -0500
> From: "Eric A. Cottrell" <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Intel Atom is NICE.
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I bought the earlier version of the motherboard with just the 10/100
> > ethernet.  I put it in a MI-100 case and it is a nice little system.  I
> > have not gotten a chance to use it with GNURadio much so I have not
> > commented about it on the list.  I am thinking of using it as a car
> > computer.
>
> ----- End Original Message -----
>
> Hello,
>
> I did not realize that the D945GCLF2 has the new Atom 330 dual core
processor. It should work even better than the earlier D945GCLF board or
netbook that I used.
>
> 73 Eric
>
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