1.1.0r121 Is Out!, New name for betas by svn revision №;) Options

[scoutme]

Are you asking this so I can debug it... I will work on that... it is a keymapping issue... I am working on the issue now... I did all the steps above and the ctrl+c is the only issue I had... I will look into it...

Late

thanks
I wanted to make these bugs arise, since it looks not a lot of 860 users are trying the release and posting bugs.

[InSearchOf]

Does suspend work for you guys?

When I try to suspend the device by pressing the on/off button, the unit suspends, but then immediately turns on!

It suspends for as long as I press the button...

Just tested... and yes it doesnt that under the shell (console)... But under X it is fine...

Post a bug under the Bug Tracker and someone will either get to it... if I will look into it in my free time... I got like 3-4 bugs ahead of this one...

I'm not trying to be a hassle telling everyone to post bugs... I just would like everything documented... so that I wont have to search to figure out "What did so and so say about this and that... and what thread was it under... and which page was it on"

Late

[himchen]

Hi,

as I said: no problems so far (I'm still searching for the right mouse button, FN+"mouse click" does not work??).

Concerning charging:
I unplugged power and after a few seconds the icon changed from green "charging" to blue "battery indicator". After a few seconds I plugged power again and the charging light went on plus the icon changed to green "charging" again.
Charging works fine now. Charging lamp goes off when full which was not the case in Beta1.

All I did on installation was:

- install new u-boot
- install new release
- install rox, gnumeric, kdepimpi, planner, vim and all depending packages
- change desktop to rox
- applied bugfix to get brightness-keys to work (see http://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=20563 for details)

Do the date/time settings survive a reboot and is the hwclock command included?
Beta4 always resets the time to the epoch on reboot.

Himchen

[InSearchOf]

Hi,

as I said: no problems so far (I'm still searching for the right mouse button, FN+"mouse click" does not work??).

Concerning charging:
I unplugged power and after a few seconds the icon changed from green "charging" to blue "battery indicator". After a few seconds I plugged power again and the charging light went on plus the icon changed to green "charging" again.
Charging works fine now. Charging lamp goes off when full which was not the case in Beta1.

All I did on installation was:

- install new u-boot
- install new release
- install rox, gnumeric, kdepimpi, planner, vim and all depending packages
- change desktop to rox
- applied bugfix to get brightness-keys to work (see http://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=20563 for details)

Do the date/time settings survive a reboot and is the hwclock command included?
Beta4 always resets the time to the epoch on reboot.

Himchen

That issue has been fixed....

Late

[scheck.r]

ok... with the spectrum wifi card... it registers as eth0...
so try this...
**eth0.up**

CODE

#!/bin/sh
ifconfig eth0 up
iwconfig eth0 essid airlinkplus mode managed
dhcpcd
sleep 5
ifconfig eth0

CODE

# sh eth0.up

Oh and note... you don't need to run both scripts only 1 or the other... in this case run the one I have above...

After that runs when ifconfig should show you your ip! Surf away!

Late

Thank you for the help but it still blinks without connecting for about 1 minute then It's returning

CODE

# sh eth0.up
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:A0:F8:A0:19:D9  
         BROADCAST NOTRAILERS MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
         RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
         TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
         collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
         RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
         Interrupt:137

[InSearchOf]

What channel are you using?

Late

[scheck.r]

What channel are you using?

Late

I use channel 11 on the router

[scheck.r]

CARD APPLET:
My SD card has 2 partitions(vfat and ext2)
Both are mounted automatically on insert, no problem.
But the card applet only unmounts 1 partition, so that if I click on the applet, remove the card and suspend then the Z freezes needing a hard-reset.
On insert

CODE

# mount
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
/dev/root on / type jffs2 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
none on /dev type ramfs (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
none on /var/run type ramfs (rw)
/dev/mmcblk0p2 on /mnt/mmcblk0p2 (7) type ext2 (rw,nogrpid)
/dev/mmcblk0p1 on /mnt/card type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,fmask=0033,dmask=0033,codepage=cp437,iocharset=utf8)

After clicking on the card applet

CODE

# mount
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
/dev/root on / type jffs2 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
none on /dev type ramfs (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
none on /var/run type ramfs (rw)
/dev/mmcblk0p2 on /mnt/mmcblk0p2 (7) type ext2 (rw,nogrpid)

Here is my /etc/fstab:

CODE

/dev/mtdblock2    /      jffs2    rw  1  1
/dev/hda1    /mnt/cf  auto    noauto,owner    0  0
/dev/mmcblk0p1  /mnt/card    auto    noauto,owner    0  0
none  /dev/pts    devpts    gid=5,mode=620    0  0
proc  /proc  proc    defaults    0  0

[solighten]

ok, now try this:

open Aterm
write "xterm" and enter
try to write something in xterm - if you see strange characters that's a problem
press CTRL+C in Aterm to close xterm - if you see strange characters instead of xterm closing, that's a problem
now exit from X (menu, exit, ok)
try to press "a" - if you cannot enter the "a" character, that's a problem

Let me know

can you try these lines? fast and useful...

Hi scoutme,

you are right. Not everything is 100%. There is still a configuration issue in xterm and the annoying keyboard problem after exit from X.
You con use "FN"-"a" to enter the "a" character in console.
Seems I got used to the smaller problems - I don't even notice them anymore

Jan

[Martin]

Hi scoutsme, Hi Sash, Hi Laze, Hi everyone :-)

I am willing to test the new release and I will be very happy to do it, but I have the same problems with installing u-boot ... reading Howto install, many threads of the forum :-(

But evrytime the same problems with my c860 and many different CF / SD Cards :-( ... only getting blinking yellow / green lights and nothing happens ... NAND Backup / Restore with these cards works well!

I am really sad because I love pdaXrom ... now remaining to Beta2 for works very fine ... using NAND restore ...

C+M Menu gives me Ok usinf NAND erase and Nand Full Testing, but no possibility to install u-boot and new pdaxrom r121 ...

Does anybody have an idea to help me install for testing? Any chance to get a NANDbackup from fresh installed c860 (with u-boot and r121)?

THX
Martin

[Andmann]

ok... with the spectrum wifi card... it registers as eth0...
so try this...

**eth0.up**

CODE

#!/bin/sh
ifconfig eth0 up
iwconfig eth0 essid airlinkplus mode managed
dhcpcd
sleep 5
ifconfig eth0

CODE

# sh eth0.up

Oh and note... you don't need to run both scripts only 1 or the other... in this case run the one I have above...

After that runs when ifconfig should show you your ip! Surf away!

Late

Hi,
With this script and the firmware update posted earlier. I now have my c1000 online.
Great news!!..

I do have one question though, what the command for it to find "any" wireless AP, not just the ones where I know the essid.

Thanks again Late.

Andmann

[newkirk]

Hi scoutsme, Hi Sash, Hi Laze, Hi everyone :-)

I am willing to test the new release and I will be very happy to do it, but I have the same problems with installing u-boot ... reading Howto install, many threads of the forum :-(

But evrytime the same problems with my c860 and many different CF / SD Cards :-( ... only getting blinking yellow / green lights and nothing happens ... NAND Backup / Restore with these cards works well!

I am really sad because I love pdaXrom ... now remaining to Beta2 for works very fine ... using NAND restore ...

C+M Menu gives me Ok usinf NAND erase and Nand Full Testing, but no possibility to install u-boot and new pdaxrom r121 ...

Does anybody have an idea to help me install for testing? Any chance to get a NANDbackup from fresh installed c860 (with u-boot and r121)?

THX
Martin

Here's what worked out with my C860:

Put uboot files on cf. remove power and battery, replace both. Hold down 'ok' while booting, and it installs uboot. It says it's rebooting, and fails to do so.

The unit will now no longer turn on, power on with 'ok' pressed etc dead, plug in power and power light stays off.

Put 121 ROM files on CF and slot in. Remove power and battery. Hold down 'OK' and plug in power, KEEP 'OK' held down for 12 seconds, and emergency rom fires up, offers to 'install or boot emergency - y/n' (this should either NOT be 'y/n' or question should be reworded). Press 'y' and it installs 121 ROM successfully. When it reboots, pull power cord, reinstert battery.

Normal power-on now boots 121 ROM.

Just in case someone wants to try on a C860 and can't get this working, you are welcome to try the NAND backup I just made after installing and booting. I told it to recalibrate touchscreen after restart, shut down, and backed up, so it should boot fine and require calibration if you restore this NAND backup on a C860. http://myzaur.us/pdaxr121c860bak.tar.gz

j

[Martin]

Hi Newkirk,

THX very much ... with some modifications I get u-boot and pdaXrom r121 to flash and it works great :-) ... now it's tim to test ...

I will give some hints for flashing later ... together with some error / problems report :-)

THX
Martin

[iczer3]

Dear InSearchOf,

I have made further investigation on r121 with 860. If you do
cat /proc/apm most of the time it shows 5% and battery critical.
But, on some rare cases, the battery is on 45% which is correct.
When the battery is at 45% and I insert charger the battery will charge.
When the battery is at 5% (most of the time) and I insert charger it
will not charge.

BR,

Felix.

[kellyharding]

Just in case someone wants to try on a C860 and can't get this working, you are welcome to try the NAND backup I just made after installing and booting.  I told it to recalibrate touchscreen after restart, shut down, and backed up, so it should boot fine and require calibration if you restore this NAND backup on a C860.  http://myzaur.us/pdaxr121c860bak.tar.gz

j

Tried your NAND backup, but it wouldn't flash for me got some kind of format error?

Kelly