Productivity
This has been a fairly productive week. I’ve been working with the SV24, and so far I’m really happy with it. The one serial port may be a bit of a problem, but we can get around that with USB converters now. Also, I’ve switched from using FreeBSD for our embedded systems to NetBSD. The main reason for this is NetBSD’s USB drivers, supporting a wider range of devices (namely the serial converters.) I had a bit of trouble getting some of my serial interface code ported over, but I managed to get it working.
Also, I’ve been looking into voice modem technology for being about to do voice call notification and dial-in voice status checking. It should be really neat once I get it working. I’ve been mainly looking into using vgetty/mgetty to handle the modem, since that will allow it to do voice and PPP connections. We should be getting the modem in next week, it’s a Zoom USB 56K voice modem, which I’m really hoping will work with NetBSD’s umodem driver.
It should come together really nicely, and should end up being a very slick feature for the product. Whee! I’m all excited about it.
