Who: Paul, Andrew, James, Jamey, Michael, Larry, Bart, Markus
The skinny:
- James updated the driver, canmuxer, and other software to work on the upgraded FC kernel. See details below at end of minutes
- Andrew brought Michael uptodate on the goings on.
- Markus struggled with Win98 to get his CAN node tools up and running. Sorry, Markus.
- Larry worked on java code for the uplink system. Larry - status?
- Paul brought X up on OS X on his Titanium (how cool is that?)
Where we are:
We're in good shape, but of course we're still 6 months behind schedule ;) The big push now is to get the get a "bench-top" or "rats nest" system working. Once the bench top system is working, we'll have an idea of how to mount the thing in the avionics module and clean it up.
![fc hw 002 60pct.jpg](./fc_hw_002_60pct.jpg)
Flight Avionics Hardware Status 8/13/2002
Black = exists, Red = to do, "M" = connect by hand (no other PCB needed)
Priorities:
Here's a rough, arguably flawed listing of our priorities:
- Get the 2m "rocket body" antenna turned and done.
- Get the java uplink software and interface to the Mocom done.
- Patch antennas!
- Get the GPS node up and running.
- Get the IMU up and running.
- Get the canmux to get the messages to rocketview.
- Get rocketview to display the previous data.
- Get the uplink node, umbilical node and the 802.11 power amp switch working.
- Get the ATV system working.
- Get the ATV node working with overlay and power switches.
If we actually accomplish all of this (miracle?) then we'll have the completed LV2 first-flight system. We'll get fancier for LV2b by redoing the boards and adding functionality in the firmware and software.
Flight Computer activities (James):
- FC: moved can.o module to new directory /lib/modules/2.4.18/misc
- FC: set up /etc/modules to load can.o (followed with /etc/init.d/modutils)
- FC: added can driver options to /etc/modutils/local (ran update-modules)
- FC: in /etc/pcmcia played with wireless.opts and network.opts so wireless and net cards come up properly config'ed. Much use of 'cardctl {insert,eject} 0'
- Laptop: set up NAT on my laptop (installed package ipmasq), also replaced ipchains with iptables
- FC: configured to default route through wireless to Laptop to NAT to everywhere
- FC: apt-get update & upgrade via wireless & laptop NAT
- FC: apt-get clean & rm -rf /usr/share/doc/*
- FC: problems with writing to compact flash disk causes NETCARD WATCHDOG problems
- FC: turned off ext3 journaling: change /etc/fstab to mark /dev/hda1 as ext2, 'init 1; mount -o remount,ro /dev/hda1; tune2fs -O ^has_journal; reboot'
- Laptop: apt-get update & upgrade
- psas server: cleaned up old pcmcia-cs stuff and obsolete FC 2.4.5 kernel stuff
- psas server: configed kernel for FC in /usr/src/rocket-2.4.18 to have CONFIG_FILTER (packet filter API) and CONFIG_PACKET (Berkeley packet API)
- psas server: compiled new FC kernel with "make-kpkg kernel_image"
- FC: cleaned out old kernel image and modules (2.4.5, 2.2.18)
- FC: updated /etc/lilo.conf, reran lilo -v, rebooted, it works
- laptop: started looking at replacing aclocal/autoconfig/automake with hand-coded Makefiles