APC: VIA’s Reply To The Raspberry Pi

 Android, Linux, Raspberry Pi  No Responses »
May 242012
 

Just caught wind of the VIA APC, a ready to go Android PC that looks like it would do well for a low power server / computer.
Their homepage shows that it has built in LAN, 6x USB ports, and 2GB of built in flash. Display is output via VGA or HDMI, which is great news for anyone with those old monitors lying around. Powered by an 800Mhz ARM11 CPU, it has enough grunt to be a basic net-top or HTPC as it has hardware 1080P decoding. It ships with Android 2.3 but sounds like an ARM-Flavoured linux distribution would work on it also.

Might have to get one and do a review on it.

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Linux Wireless Issues – Can’t Ping Machine Until Machine Pings Out First

 Linux  2 Responses »
May 062012
 

I’ve recently had an issue with one of my boxes, where the WiFi interface will not let any new connections in unless a connection out is established first. The connection can be established by anything, a ping, a ssh connection or anything.
I can’t track down what’s causing it. It’s using a RTL8187 USB stick with an external antenna with a 2.6.39 custom kernel. The same thing happens on a 3.3 kernel however.

iwconfig is reporting that power management is off, and I have disabled wireless power management in the kernel also.
Is there anything else that anyone can think of ?
Any more information needed to help me troubleshoot this ?

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