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 Nov 7 2007, 12:26 PM
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I just came back to pdaXii13 after a trip to the 2.6 kernel via r198 and Angstrom.
I verified that I had the 5.4.9 files from the tyrannozaurus site and flashed my 3200 with the "full" version. (initrd.bin, tools.tar and updater.sh from Akita and hdimage-full.tar from Spitz) I fixed up my wpa_supplicant.conf and wifi-radar files, and of course my wifi card (Ambicom WL1100-CF) did not work. Based on prior experience with this ROM, I did a manual (ipkg from command line) install of hostap-drivers and hostap-utils (version 0.4.7-1) I have no idea what version is installed by flashing the ROM, but it has never worked for me in the past. (hostap-utils -v or hostap-utils --version give errors) I also installed wifi-radar 1.9.8-2 and that gets my network going. Then I did ipkg update and started ipkg upgrade. It ran for a while and then upgraded hostap-drivers, and the whole thing quit. Now I have no network connection. Questions: - How can I exclude a package from ipkg upgrade? - Is that even a good idea? I want to keep things current but the version installed by flashing clearly doesn't work. - How can I get things back to where they are working without re-flashing? - The Tyrannozaurus download page clearly says this is 5.4.9, but the pdaXii13 Config Tool says 5.4.7. Who's lying and how can I find the version number other than the config tool? TIA Walt |
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Nov 7 2007, 07:50 PM
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 Group: Members Posts: 2,821 Joined: 13-September 04 From: Wasilla Ak. Member No.: 4,572 |
QUOTE(walts @ Nov 7 2007, 11:26 AM)  I just came back to pdaXii13 after a trip to the 2.6 kernel via r198 and Angstrom. I verified that I had the 5.4.9 files from the tyrannozaurus site and flashed my 3200 with the "full" version. (initrd.bin, tools.tar and updater.sh from Akita and hdimage-full.tar from Spitz) I fixed up my wpa_supplicant.conf and wifi-radar files, and of course my wifi card (Ambicom WL1100-CF) did not work. Based on prior experience with this ROM, I did a manual (ipkg from command line) install of hostap-drivers and hostap-utils (version 0.4.7-1) I have no idea what version is installed by flashing the ROM, but it has never worked for me in the past. (hostap-utils -v or hostap-utils --version give errors) I also installed wifi-radar 1.9.8-2 and that gets my network going. Then I did ipkg update and started ipkg upgrade. It ran for a while and then upgraded hostap-drivers, and the whole thing quit. Now I have no network connection. Questions: - How can I exclude a package from ipkg upgrade? - Is that even a good idea? I want to keep things current but the version installed by flashing clearly doesn't work. - How can I get things back to where they are working without re-flashing? - The Tyrannozaurus download page clearly says this is 5.4.9, but the pdaXii13 Config Tool says 5.4.7. Who's lying and how can I find the version number other than the config tool? TIA Walt I haven't seen any hostap problem using the same card, but then I'm not using wpa-supplicant. Anyway, meanie excludes ipks in the pdaxiiv2 ipkg-upgrade script. you might grab a copy of that and see what he is doing with it? I'm sure someone else will be along with better info, but til then I hope this helps. |
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Nov 15 2007, 07:04 PM
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 Group: Members Posts: 2,808 Joined: 21-March 05 From: Sydney, Australia Member No.: 6,686 |
QUOTE(adf @ Nov 8 2007, 01:50 PM) QUOTE(walts @ Nov 7 2007, 11:26 AM) I just came back to pdaXii13 after a trip to the 2.6 kernel via r198 and Angstrom. I verified that I had the 5.4.9 files from the tyrannozaurus site and flashed my 3200 with the "full" version. (initrd.bin, tools.tar and updater.sh from Akita and hdimage-full.tar from Spitz) I fixed up my wpa_supplicant.conf and wifi-radar files, and of course my wifi card (Ambicom WL1100-CF) did not work. Based on prior experience with this ROM, I did a manual (ipkg from command line) install of hostap-drivers and hostap-utils (version 0.4.7-1) I have no idea what version is installed by flashing the ROM, but it has never worked for me in the past. (hostap-utils -v or hostap-utils --version give errors) I also installed wifi-radar 1.9.8-2 and that gets my network going. Then I did ipkg update and started ipkg upgrade. It ran for a while and then upgraded hostap-drivers, and the whole thing quit. Now I have no network connection. Questions: - How can I exclude a package from ipkg upgrade? - Is that even a good idea? I want to keep things current but the version installed by flashing clearly doesn't work. - How can I get things back to where they are working without re-flashing? - The Tyrannozaurus download page clearly says this is 5.4.9, but the pdaXii13 Config Tool says 5.4.7. Who's lying and how can I find the version number other than the config tool? TIA Walt I haven't seen any hostap problem using the same card, but then I'm not using wpa-supplicant. Anyway, meanie excludes ipks in the pdaxiiv2 ipkg-upgrade script. you might grab a copy of that and see what he is doing with it? I'm sure someone else will be along with better info, but til then I hope this helps. I enhanced ipkg in my latest releases and added a feature to ignore upgrading certain packages that are contained in a file called ignored. The updated ipkg also fixes a bug where it thinks a newer version is actually older. as for pdaXii13 version, just run version from the command line. It should be the same as what pdaXcfg tool tells you. |
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