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Patrick -

i'm glad you got it figured out! I didn't realize that a 5V cable would produce garbage, but that is really good to know.

Afaik - yes.

This might be another reason to try harder and get the 2.6 kernel running on the WL-520 with wireless... Last time I tried there were boot issues with b43 wireless driver problems but those might be fixed now.

Awesome, thanks for sharing! That is a very slick display, and the serial interface makes it really easy to get something working FAST.
I haven't seen the oleg firmware before but I'll have to check it out. What do you like about it over OpenWrt or are they both pretty much the same?

Are you using the firmware I posted in the tutorial or your own? I can't remember if I compiled USB-bluetooth support or not. If you do an lsmod do you see any bluetooth kernel modules being loaded? I have a USB-bluetooth adapter, I'll have to play with it once of these days and see if i can get it ...

Sounds like a cool project and I think icecast is the way to go - but having absolutely zero experience with it I will let others speak up instead.

The only other thing I would check is your comm settings... Make sure you're using 115200 8N1 with no flow control.

Slides are up:
http://mightyohm.com/blog/2009/04/notac ... -download/

Video should be up eventually on the Notacon site.

Evil Potato - The serial data doesn't contain formatting specific to the LCD. The serial output of the router is something like: Name: Slay Radio Title: Some Artist - Some Song Name Each line has a newline character at the end, but it's up to the microcontroller driving the LCD display to figure out...

Weird. I played with a 1GB stick formatted with ext3 for a while and it seemed to be ok. I have read something about the linux-2.4 kernel having issues with vfat before, that might be the problem you are running into with data corruption. Have you played with the 2.6 kernel at all? Last time I tried...