Rc10 Out For Testing..

[hbo]

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very strange. I had loaded pdaX over sharp..and got a really basic emergency looking desktop..restored to guylhem rom.... then flashed to pdaX and got a beautiful gui.  I wouldn't have thought that would happen at all. I wonder what my partitions look like...

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You seem to have gotten farther than I did. I also loaded rc10 on my 6k tonight. I answered "y" when the installer asked be if I wanted to format the user flash. As a result, root had no home dir and no .xinitrc. Since the default system xinitrc is the one that has shipped with X at least as far back as X11R5, (R4 had 'awm' I think) that brought up twm as the default window manager. I managed to get focus on an xterm, and from there about all I could do was type 'reboot.' I couldn't do anything else because the pointer calibration was all messed up. The X axis was reversed, and the Y axis  was non-functional until I had the stylus about 3/4 of the way to the bottom, when it would start rising off the very bottom of the screen It got maybe a third of the way up as I brought the stylus all the way to the bottom. So it's reversed to, but there's more to it than that. As reported here by others, I couldn't use the FN shifted keys, so I couldn't type some important characters like '-'. (Try going without that at a Unix command line. Since I couldn't reach the window menu because of the pointer issue and I couldn't 'kill -' anything, rebooting was the best way out.

When I logged back in, I looked through /etc/X11 for a more suitable xinitrc, and found /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.openbox. This I copied to ~root/.xinitrc. When I typed 'startx' I got a much more reasonable starting desktop, with an xterm taking up about 2/3 of the screen, and with a piece of the desktop available. However the pointer was still screwed up. The calibration ran on both startx attempts.

That's all for tonight. I look forward to further testing.

[adf]

you could repeat what i did.. weird though it seems... do a restore on guylhem's image.. boot to it, shutdown and install rc10.  I expected that to have problems...  as it turned out my problems came right after a fresh factory restore...

[badog]

can unstable-feed  still be used in RC10?

[BarryW]

I did what adf did, really nice looking!  Now we need to figure out how to start up the wireless....

[hbo]

you could repeat what i did.. weird though it seems... do a restore on guylhem's image.. boot to it, shutdown and install rc10.  I expected that to have problems...  as it turned out my problems came right after a fresh factory restore...
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It's the partitioning. With the default split, pdaXrom fills up the "read only" partition. If you load the guylhem rom first, it converts the flash partitioning to a single writeable root. This allows the pdaXrom install to complete correctly.

It looks as though pdaXrom will have to distribute either a smaller image or a NAND flash image  for the 6000L

My vote is for the latter.

On a cheerier note, let me second what others have said in this thread. This ROM is beautiful!

[andrewwoods]

This is GREAT. It looks good and feels (subjective I know) to be faster.

512MB SD card came today so I'm well happy.

[adf]

Are we sure we HAVE to use wlan-ng?  I mean, if we can get the prism2 drivers to load, maybe hostap can be used?

I guess first is getting the prism2 module to load.

I put the feed on my cf in the meantime so I could see how the apps work

really really nice!
good quick office apps (full blown, too) and 3 browser options.

[Christoph]

Hi Laze,

I saw that you have packages for kde in the feed.
I thought I was the only one to be crazy enough to try it.  
Is it usable?

Christoph

[pgas]

It looks as though pdaXrom will have to distribute either a smaller image or a NAND flash image for the 6000L

You can also try to use the tools in the installer to resize the root partition.

[hbo]

6000L WiFi Works!

Several things were key in getting this to work.

• Follow the instructions at ftp://ftp.linux-wlan.org/pub/linux-wlan-ng/README exactly as far as editing the files in /etc/wlan. Don't mess with pcmcia or hotplug.
• /etc/rc.d/init.d/wlan start
• dhcpcd wlan0
• Don't use vi, either in console or X11 mode!

It's really busybox, and it has terrible trouble with wrapped lines. The fact that the 6000L is in portrait mode makes this more likely to be a problem. Use SciTE in X11 mode (in the Office group)

Here's a relevant (censored) section from my /etc/wlan/wlancfg-mySSID, implementing 128 bit WEP:

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#=======WEP===========================================
# [Dis/En]able WEP.  Settings only matter if PrivacyInvoked is true
lnxreq_hostWEPEncrypt=true     # true|false
lnxreq_hostWEPDecrypt=true     # true|false
dot11PrivacyInvoked=true        # true|false
dot11WEPDefaultKeyID=0  # 0|1|2|3
t11ExcludeUnencrypted=true      # true|false, in AP this means WEP is required.
# If PRIV_GENSTR is not empty, use PRIV_GENTSTR to generate
#  keys (just a convenience)
# add-ons/ in the tarball contains other key generators.
PRIV_GENERATOR=/sbin/nwepgen    # nwepgen, Neesus compatible
PRIV_KEY128=true                # keylength to generate
PRIV_GENSTR=""

# or set them explicitly.  Set genstr or keys, not both.
dot11WEPDefaultKey0=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx

[hbo]

It looks as though pdaXrom will have to distribute either a smaller image or a NAND flash image for the 6000L

You can also try to use the tools in the installer to resize the root partition.
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The instructions say not to, in emphatic terms.

[adf]

bravo! on thewireless.
sounds like you were pretyy interested in getting this to work

[hbo]

bravo! on thewireless.
sounds like you were pretyy interested in getting this to work
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Obsessed, you mean?  

I'm obsessive about gadgets and systems software. The Zaurii bring out the best (?) in me.

[ScottYelich]

hey laze --

you said replacement (new) ipks to fix the fn key thing -- does that mean that they
are up? or are you going to post with their names and when they are up, etc.

Scott

[Gondola]

hbo,

Thanks a ton! This got me online and in via ssh to my Z!

A couple small corrections to your instructions:

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/etc/init.d/wlan start
should be

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/etc/rc.d/init.d/wlan start
and

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Here's a relevant (censored) section from my /etc/wlan/wlan-cfg-[i]mySSID[/i], implementing 128 bit WEP:
Should be

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/etc/wlan/wlancfg-mySSID
No dash after wlan and before cfg in that filename.  But those two filenames are in the README, so anyone following the directions should catch those two differences.

Well done!