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« Reply #15 on: October 10, 2006, 08:28:25 am »
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Does poky have a working graphical card applet for (un)mounting cards and turning the wifi on/off?

IMO this is OZ/GPEs current biggest failing
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I managed to build the matchbox-applet-cards with trivial changes in the source code, but I am not satisfied with it. I have limited C knowledge. If someone could help me, I am sure that a skilled C programmer could solve the problem in less than one hour... All we need is to parse a .conf file so that the applet could work on any build (weither using carctl or pccardctl), and hide the microdrive if running under spitz).
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« Reply #16 on: October 10, 2006, 10:57:56 am »
Can you add the .bb and patch to the OE bugtracker as an enhancement type bug please?

I'm not sure whether it would be allowed by default in the gpe-image (see the other thread), but if it were available it would be a stop-gap until someone writes a replacement.


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« Reply #17 on: October 10, 2006, 11:43:42 am »
could anyone post the required files to install?  I don't have a linux box anymore as my university isn't linux friendly..   So I can't build the files

Thanks!
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Can you add the .bb and patch to the OE bugtracker as an enhancement type bug please?

I'm not sure whether it would be allowed by default in the gpe-image (see the other thread), but if it were available it would be a stop-gap until someone writes a replacement.


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« Reply #18 on: October 10, 2006, 12:14:50 pm »
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could anyone post the required files to install?  I don't have a linux box anymore as my university isn't linux friendly..   So I can't build the files


same for me ! please post the install files ready to install!
i can provide space if it is needed
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« Reply #19 on: October 10, 2006, 01:45:11 pm »
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Does poky have a working graphical card applet for (un)mounting cards and turning the wifi on/off?

IMO this is OZ/GPEs current biggest failing
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No it doesn't have the cards applet. The distro is rather bare bones, very limited setting configuration etc.

There are no listed feeds in ikpg.conf, but since it's based on OE, I'm assuming their X11 feeds should work... I'll see

As for the necessity of the cards-applet for mounting cards & handling WiFi, I haven't found that to ba an issue for me with either opie or gpe. To turn off Wifi, I just remove the card. As for the SD & CF cards as long as there is no app running from them I simply remove the card without issuing a umount command. Never had a problem with the cards after doing that.

My 2 cents.

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« Reply #20 on: October 10, 2006, 01:50:24 pm »
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There are no listed feeds in ikpg.conf, but since it's based on OE, I'm assuming their X11 feeds should work... I'll see
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OE doesn't have any feeds. And note that Poky can use different ABIs by setting POKY_MODE.
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« Reply #21 on: October 10, 2006, 01:58:13 pm »
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There are no listed feeds in ikpg.conf, but since it's based on OE, I'm assuming their X11 feeds should work... I'll see
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OE doesn't have any feeds. And note that Poky can use different ABIs by setting POKY_MODE.
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Quite right, when it comes to language precision you are the master.  

I meant to say the OpenZaurus X11 feeds might work...

Cheers again..
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« Reply #22 on: October 10, 2006, 02:07:32 pm »
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As for the necessity of the cards-applet for mounting cards & handling WiFi, I haven't found that to ba an issue for me with either opie or gpe. To turn off Wifi, I just remove the card. As for the SD & CF cards as long as there is no app running from them I simply remove the card without issuing a umount command. Never had a problem with the cards after doing that.

My 2 cents.

Cheers
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Having to remove the wifi card to turn if off is highly kludgey, annoying and would wear out my CF slot with a couple of weeks of regular usage. Not good.

As for your practice of removing cards without unmounting, you obviously don't store any important data on your Z as you'd have lost most of it by now acting like that- extremely poor unix etiquette m'boy

I hope somebody manages to patch Matchbox-card-applet to work with OZ and it could be included without any loss in functionality just by removing or replacing the copyrighted icons.
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« Reply #23 on: October 10, 2006, 02:35:44 pm »
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OE doesn't have any feeds. And note that Poky can use different ABIs by setting POKY_MODE.
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Koen, in short, what are the advantages of EABI over OABI?
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« Reply #24 on: October 10, 2006, 02:50:26 pm »
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OE doesn't have any feeds. And note that Poky can use different ABIs by setting POKY_MODE.
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Koen, in short, what are the advantages of EABI over OABI?
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There's no reason to use OABI these days.
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« Reply #25 on: October 10, 2006, 09:40:08 pm »
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As for the necessity of the cards-applet for mounting cards & handling WiFi, I haven't found that to ba an issue for me with either opie or gpe. To turn off Wifi, I just remove the card. As for the SD & CF cards as long as there is no app running from them I simply remove the card without issuing a umount command. Never had a problem with the cards after doing that.

My 2 cents.

Cheers
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Having to remove the wifi card to turn if off is highly kludgey, annoying and would wear out my CF slot with a couple of weeks of regular usage. Not good.

As for your practice of removing cards without unmounting, you obviously don't store any important data on your Z as you'd have lost most of it by now acting like that- extremely poor unix etiquette m'boy

I hope somebody manages to patch Matchbox-card-applet to work with OZ and it could be included without any loss in functionality just by removing or replacing the copyrighted icons.
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I have to pull the card every time I want to turn it back on, though I am using cacko.  I've not been impressed by either oz or pdax in a while.
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