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Title: Very Frustrating
Post by: blhoward2 on January 18, 2007, 02:28:06 pm
OK, I am having major issues.  I just got my C-3200 in the mail today and decided to put OZ/GPE (3.5.4.1) on it.  This is my first zaurus but I have used linux for 10 years.  I repartitioned and flashed per the wiki and it looked like everything went ok.  After I log in, I get all kinds of weird behavior.  If I reset the clock to the correct time, it doesn't go (It does say settings saved though)  Then it will randomly reset itself by a few hours sometimes taking the hour I specified and sometimes the minute.  Whenever I edit the network settings and hit save it says no write access to network configuration.  I even tried telling it that users could change all settings.  I have tried flashing multiple times with no result.  I even recreated the filesystems on hda2 and hda3 and reflashed to no avail.

Any ideas on how to fix this?  Is this normal?  Is OZ really this unstable?
Title: Very Frustrating
Post by: HoloVector on January 18, 2007, 02:31:56 pm
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OK, I am having major issues.  I just got my C-3200 in the mail today and decided to put OZ/GPE (3.5.4.1) on it.  This is my first zaurus but I have used linux for 10 years.  I repartitioned and flashed per the wiki and it looked like everything went ok.  After I log in, I get all kinds of weird behavior.  If I reset the clock to the correct time, it doesn't go (It does say settings saved though)  Then it will randomly reset itself by a few hours sometimes taking the hour I specified and sometimes the minute.  Whenever I edit the network settings and hit save it says no write access to network configuration.  I even tried telling it that users could change all settings. 

Any ideas on how to fix this?  Is this normal?  Is OZ really this unstable?
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Are you logged in as root?  I had nothing grief running GPE when I was logged in as a regular user.  I finally gave up and logged in all the time as root.
Title: Very Frustrating
Post by: blhoward2 on January 19, 2007, 04:24:41 am
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OK, I am having major issues.  I just got my C-3200 in the mail today and decided to put OZ/GPE (3.5.4.1) on it.  This is my first zaurus but I have used linux for 10 years.  I repartitioned and flashed per the wiki and it looked like everything went ok.  After I log in, I get all kinds of weird behavior.  If I reset the clock to the correct time, it doesn't go (It does say settings saved though)  Then it will randomly reset itself by a few hours sometimes taking the hour I specified and sometimes the minute.  Whenever I edit the network settings and hit save it says no write access to network configuration.  I even tried telling it that users could change all settings. 

Any ideas on how to fix this?  Is this normal?  Is OZ really this unstable?
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Are you logged in as root?  I had nothing grief running GPE when I was logged in as a regular user.  I finally gave up and logged in all the time as root.
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Logging in as root fixed some of the errors (no write privileges).  Some things like setting the clock are still screwy though.  This is supposed to be a stable release correct?  I don't understand why the developers would issue a release in which operating as a user is forced (or implied by making you create a user) but does not function correctly.
Title: Very Frustrating
Post by: BarryW on January 19, 2007, 03:20:58 pm
Might try installing the timezones from the feed.  I don't thing all of them are there from the start.

The only "stable" release I've seen is from sharp.
Title: Very Frustrating
Post by: emikwhe on January 20, 2007, 06:23:38 am
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OK, I am having major issues.  I just got my C-3200 in the mail today and decided to put OZ/GPE (3.5.4.1) on it.  This is my first zaurus but I have used linux for 10 years.  I repartitioned and flashed per the wiki and it looked like everything went ok.  After I log in, I get all kinds of weird behavior.  If I reset the clock to the correct time, it doesn't go (It does say settings saved though)  Then it will randomly reset itself by a few hours sometimes taking the hour I specified and sometimes the minute.  Whenever I edit the network settings and hit save it says no write access to network configuration.  I even tried telling it that users could change all settings.  I have tried flashing multiple times with no result.  I even recreated the filesystems on hda2 and hda3 and reflashed to no avail.

Any ideas on how to fix this?  Is this normal?  Is OZ really this unstable?
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Have you tried just logging out and logging back in on GPE as the clock is not updated until you have done this.

I found that GPE required a user to do a lot more configuration from editing files via the command line than the other ROMs or even OPIE, but I loved the way you could install more powerful applications such as abiwiord and gnumeric.

For GPE I had to configure the wifi access by manually editing editing the following file  /etc/network/interfaces

Today I have the best of both worlds as I have installed OPIE and GPE on the same device, and recommend this combination.