Messages

1

6000 - Tosa / SL-6000, Debian, and a few (?) problems

« on: November 02, 2004, 08:15:07 am »

Well, this is sort of a confession update.

I forgot that I had changed my frequency on my home Wi-Fi router (to channel 12) just before all of my Zaurus changes.  Yesterday, I changed the frequency again (to channel 2) and my wireless is working.  So that's one problem solved.

However, the weird mounting problem and modprobe messages are continuing.  I am considering going ahead and reflashing the Z to its default state and then restarting from scratch.

If anybody has any ideas about the missing modules and lack of auto-mounting, please let me know.

I'm off to try Gnumeric.

2

6000 - Tosa / SL-6000, Debian, and a few (?) problems

« on: November 01, 2004, 01:25:05 pm »

I have my SD card formatted in the ext2 file system.  I don't have a desktop reader, so I inserted it, umount'ed it, edited the /etc/fstab, then formatted it, and it's working okay, as far as I can tell.  I can certainly read and write files, and the

It's taken me a week or two just to get things organized on my card, unpacked, and do the configuration files editing (I have a 2 year old son!  These things take a lot of your time!).  In the time before I finished the editing, the darn 802.11 worked, as did the auto-mounting of the card in ext2 mode.

I forgot to mention one thing about my boot messages--I am now getting a booting error of "modprobe: can't locate module block-major-60" which I am reasonably certain is related to one or both of my problems.

In my various manipulations of files, I don't think I did anything that should have affected the loading of kernel modules.  Can anyone think of a reason why a module would now be failing to load?

I also just rebooted to Debian mode and I'm now getting another modprobe error--"can't locate module ext2fs".  What the heck is going on here?  Sheesh.

-h

3

6000 - Tosa / SL-6000, Debian, and a few (?) problems

« on: November 01, 2004, 10:14:12 am »

So I got my SL-6000 a month ago.  After some guidance from Klaus at http://www.pocketworkstation.org, I got the relevant packages downloaded and unpacked on my 1 GB SD card.  I followed the instructions at http://digilander.libero.it/c700/ for installation on a C700, with only minor deviations (i.e., I didn't make the changes he describes to /etc/inetd.conf, /etc/hosts, /etc/hosts.deny, /etc/hosts.allow, since I don't do direct telnet/ssh/ftp to and from my Z from machines on my LAN).

After following these instructions, I can readily boot my Zaurus into Debian or the standard Qtopia using the "bootselect" flag in /home/zaurus/what.txt.  So far, so good.

However, I now have a couple of really weird problems which must be related in some way to files I edited or installed, yet I can't see the connection to any of the changes I made.

Problem #1:  After rebooting, my SD card isn't seen.  But, once it has booted, I can open a console window and do "mount -a" and it shows up just fine.  At that point, if I'm in Qtopia, the little SD icon also pops up on the taskbar.  Any ideas what service I screwed up that the card no longer will mount automatically at boot?

Problem #2:  The real killer is the one I haven't been able to fix yet with any command line action, and that is my Wi-Fi access.  Before I started editing the various startup scripts, my Wi-Fi would work fine with my home system.  Now I just get the Initializing message, the little green light flashes for a few seconds, then I get "Network Offline".  Since I got this device, I have essentially used only the Wi-Fi for all my connectivity and so I'm pretty much dead in the water without it.  

Can anyone shed any light on what I might have screwed up?  Are there some services that aren't started normally through /etc/rc.d/init.d that I need to re-enable, and if so, how?  If not, maybe someone can point me in the right direction to figure out how to get things back to working.

By the way--the Debian installation works flawlessly on this SL-6000.  I didn't do anything other than get Xvnc-xf4vnc-4.3.0.104-kw1-arm and zaurus-debian-big-v0.17.tar and unpack them on the card, plus following the directions for the C700.  If I can just get my handheld to run Debian with full internet connectivity, I think I'll be done with my major struggles.