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Location would have to be central UK-ish and with cheap-ish local accommodation.
QuoteI have to admit I'm rather tempted by this ARM version of Debian particularly as I run Debian on 3 machines at home.Others have reported problems using non-standard microdrives. YMMV. So, what's so great about your current OS on the machine?
There is a different version of Murphy's Law called Barry's Law:
'If it can go wrong then he'll make it go wrong'
In view of that I could change the microdrive in my C3100 for a new blank one and install on that. If I didn't like it or the installation failed miserably could I then replace my original microdrive and boot into my current operating system as normal?
If that is feasible where could I get a larger microdrive (8GB?) at a reasonable price preferably in the U.K.?
Ta muchly!
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Hey, I just found instructions for how to enable the log for dhcpcd in, of all places, the man page!
Your ls of ps looks perfect...when you can, give me an md5sum...I'm wondering if we have the same file...my ls looks similar:
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 89312 Apr 12 17:00 /bin/ps
I take it there is no log of dhcpcd's progress?
Look for logs in /tmp/ and in /var/log/ when you are actually online with kismet.
Please paste in your results...whether you meant "shows the details for /bin/ps" or "shows a symlink pointing to /bin/ps" is not clear without me eyeballing your output.
I don't know what Skype does.
When you do
which ps | xargs ls -l
What do you get? If you follow any symlinks and it points to busybox, then it won't be very useful output from ps.
If it is not a busybox ps, then how about pasteing in or uploading a copy of 'ps ax' from when you are online here?
Also, do you have any kind of log showing what happens when you go online/use kismet?
Sigh...let's try another time...
Maybe just look over the output of 'ps ax' with your eyes, and find all the lines that contain ttyS when the CF card is plugged in and shows in the taskbar. And see if there are any other tty's in addition to ttya0 that show in the list. Hopefully your eyes will pick up on whatever grep isn't fetching for us.
If your system knows the CF card is plugged in, and it's on ttyS3, then it has to show up somewhere on the list, esp. when you're running kismet.
And have you ever seen any lines showing a ttyS0 in the list? If not, that's great for my script. If yes, then it will be a good test, but I'd like to see what those ttyS0 lines look like.
Ah! That's what I needed to know. My script could work, but I still don't know if you have ttyS0 running as well. My hunch is that you entered something other than "ps ax | grep tty" or that you weren't using the wireless when you ran the above.
That's cool. So, next time you do run that script, I'd suggest you maybe background it with an ampersand at the end of the command line, or so something to see if you have ttyS0 also running.
But can you try the "ps ax | grep pppd" and see what you get when you are not using wireless? And show the command you entered as well as it's output?
Oops...it was my mistake. I see when I run "ps aux | grep pppd" that the tty part gets cut off:
root 31707 0.0 0.5 1984 160 ttyS3 SN 15:41 0:00 /usr/sbin/pppd tt
Line was too long <Oh well.
Grepping for pppd should cover that...
Barry, I believe your trouble getting the card to go online the next time around is not due to using stop, but because of the qcop Network messages sent by other apps. Do you use a browser when you are connected? Or email or a chat client?
Duh, I remember hearing some ROMs use different kernel networking stuff. Um, can you grep wlan when it's active on your Zaurus? wlan doesn't use a tty? I'm baffled.
Which version of Qtopia and which ROM did you say you had?
What does your Z call the slot your CF card is in? I don't remember another command other than to grep the ps output for details, at least not after being up most of the night.
Ah...if it's a pppd connection,
Oooh...that sounds very familiar.
Don't work too hard at it...in about four weeks, after I deal with some other deadlines, I expect to be asking you to test the script I've written that resets the network applet. If it works, you should be able to simply call qreset from your script before each time you go to start a connection.
My concern has been that I only have one tty active, and don't know whether it will work properly for multiple active tty processes. I've tried asking both here and at the trolltech mailing list how to direct the 'stop' to a specific tty or pid, and gotten no answers. From looking at the qtopia docs, it may not be officially possible. I guess it might be possible with a lot of painfully worked out tweaking of the qcop message stack to do it, to ensure that the process you want to stop is at the top.
Can you do the following for me, once with wlan active, and once when you are totally offline :
ps ax | grep tty
Don't want to disappoint you, but I'm not confused at all.
This is linux, after all, and that gives us the ability to write scripts to make things easier for us. I think that was a great idea.
What command did you use to determine if the connection was up? I've used route or ifconfig, but also sometimes use grep to check my log and make sure authentication has been completed.
Barry,
Do you mind my asking why you wanted to do it in a script? Most people prefer GUIs, although I also am starting my dialup connections from the command line so I have more control over what's going on, although I've been using opie-sh to make my selection of which connection.
sdjf
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