SuperLinux Encyclopedia - Radio, Satellite, & other Wireless

Also see Communication.

Misc:

• Cell Phones

Radio:

• HAM HOWTO HOWTO configure amateur radio software for Linux.
• Ham Radio Applications and Utilities
• ADS Cadet Radio Card Video4Linux driver 
• Astuner-Aztech   "controls Aztech (aka Packard Bell) radio cards"
• Mobitex driver   "a network driver which implements the MASC protocol for driving Mobitex radio modems"
• HamLog  "Amateur Radio Logging program for X using GTK"
• Hams, Packet Radio and Linux  Oct'96 LG
• TAPR  "dedicated to amateur digital communications"; has software.

Satellite Recievers:

• DirecPC FTP dir   Drivers and docs.
• Helius company   Said to have a $ driver for DirecPC.
• There is a "alt.satellite.direcpc" newsgroup.

GPS:

• There's a driver for the "Novatel 8 bit ISA bus GPScard" available from Tom Atkinson ("tom(at)tyco.net.au").
• Mayko's Xmap  GPS plotting, map viewing, other GIS. [LJ ad]
• Fleet Computer Systems  Not Linux related. Good GPS links page.

Wireless LAN:

• Promox Systems  "SkyLAN Unique Wireless Transceiver" [LJ ads]
• Ask Slashdot: IR Wireless Networks for Laptops?
• Wireless LAN HOWTO 

Pagers; Paging; Wireless Messaging; SMS:

• EtherPage  "wireless messaging"; $; sends messages to pagers, cell phones, etc.
• paging  Article on Pager SW at Linux Weekly News.
• Paging & Visual Intercom Systems  $; MessageNet Systems, Inc.
• Silent Messenger  $, Free Beta; "WEB based Alphanumeric/Digital paging engine" for Apache.
• SMS:
  • Samsem  samsend - A SMS sender and receiver daemon. "for bidirectional SMS-E-mail gateways"; "Siemens M1, Falcom A1, Nokia Phonecard, or similar"
  • sendsms  Send SMS messages to GSM network (for cell phones and pagers). Interactive and sendmail MDA.
  • SMS Client  "allows you to send SMS messages to mobile phones and pagers".

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