From: Ahmed Y. Abdel-b. <ahm...@ho...> - 2010-08-06 13:29:27
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Hi I d like to make sure that i understood the question right if you mean you would use the phone instead of the laptop i guess it might work if the N900 is as u say using a linux os and on the condition that it has fine processing power but if u mean that you would like to use it as a hardware i guess not because it means you need to have full access to the hardware and i guess that is not possible > Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 09:44:10 +0200 > From: 24...@gm... > To: ce...@fr... > CC: ope...@li... > Subject: Re: [Openbts-discuss] Run OpenBTS on Nokia N900 > > Hi, > > > Just discovering this very interesting project that is OpenBTS. I did > > not go into the technical details of the hardware components required > > to run it and was wondering, given that the Nokia N900 is a Linux > > phone running on a Debian-like distribution, and has capabilities to > > Tx/Rx on GSM/UMTS frequencies, would it be possible to run an OpenBTS > > on this phone? > > Short answer "No". > > > Long answer: > > Altough your phone tx/rx on GSM frequencies, you have _NO_ control at > all. All that is done in the baseband processor which is completely > closed. Some functions of the phone can even be hardcoded in hardware > (like RX band filters most likely) ... > There are also things a BTS must be able to do (full duplex on RF), > that a phone never has to do (and so the hw most likely doesn't > support it). You can workaround some of those or push the hw to do > stuff it's not spec'd for to get someting "bts-like" (but not a full > bts) that _might_ (not even sure) work. But that's months of work for > an experienced gsm engineer with full access to the specs (which you > will never get unless you have the cash to buy Nokia ?) > > So ... realistically : "no". > > > Cheers, > > Sylvain > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by > > Make an app they can't live without > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Openbts-discuss mailing list > Ope...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openbts-discuss |