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Matthijs Kooijman wrote: |
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> Hey, |
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>> Has anyone used Avahi (http://avahi.org/) to auto discovery |
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>> or config an embedded gentoo system? |
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> I've installed it succesfully on an embedded gentoo system. I think there were |
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> some bumps on the road, but over all it worked pretty well (together with |
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> pulseaudio). It's been a while since I've toyed with it, so I don't remember |
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> details. |
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Nice to know it works. My interest is just testing it so when I plug |
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in an embedded board to a network, it runs some tests and figures out |
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how to auto configure the ip, dns resolver(mDNS) and possible default |
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routing to the internet (not sure how you glean this info from another |
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unix/windows machine, at this point). |
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I'm just learning about avahi and zeroconf (DNS-SD & mDNS) so my |
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interests are "noob", at this point. |
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I have not found any development examples how to use avahi (et al) on |
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an embedded system, with a particular focus on auto-configuration of |
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an embedded board on a new network...... Most things seem to focus on |
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the primary application (like serving/playing) audio files.... |
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> I can't access my embedded or development system right now, so I can't see if |
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> I made any overlays for compilation. I did find the following commands in my |
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> notes: |
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> # Add some groups needed for dbus and avahi |
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> # Not sure why emerge doesn't do this... |
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> egrep "^(messagebus|avahi|netdev|pulse)" /etc/group >> /targetfull/etc/group |
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> egrep "^(messagebus|avahi|pulse|mpd)" /etc/passwd >> /targetfull/etc/passwd |
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> (Exececuted from the dev system where /targetfull is the embedded systems) |
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> Also, I attached my portage overlay in a previous email [1], you might find |
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> something useful in there (If there is nothing in there, I probably got it to |
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> compile without any trouble). |
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> I'll look in my system as soon as I'm around it again, but do let us know how |
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> your progress is! |
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Thanks for you suggestions. At some point I'll follow up. |
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> Gr. |
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> Matthijs |
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> [1]: http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-embedded/msg_72aba3bd14d6b84a75ee2d75e58f56d1.xml |
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Thanks, |
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James |
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