No, for the beta, you needed to unpack keyboard.tar.gz (available at the same place the beta kernel was) in the root directory. (The location wasn't clear in the instructions, but looking at the tarball contents showed the way.)
bleh, my error I guess. I used the files from the beta, but followed the instructions that was from the fast-kernel (as per his original message)
note: this is using the Sharp ROM
ok, found the source of the problems. the keyboard and modules files needs to be extracted from / rather than the directories as listed in the instructions.
I think after that is when things go awry. Mostly missing things.
I should note that I had to put the "find ..." and "for ..." instructions in a .sh file, otherwise I wouldn't be able to type certain characters.
----- during boot -----
depmod: Can't open /lib/modules/2.4.18-rmk7-pxa3-embedix/modules.dep for writing
modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.18-rmk7-pxa3-embedix/modules.dep (No such file or directory)
mount: Mounting usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb failed: No such file or directory
insmod: vtty: no module by that name found
INIT: Entering runlevel: 5
----- after boot -----
observation: sd card not recognized.
of course, this meant that all the programs I installed was not being found.
booting into console mode, and trying to manually mount /mnt/card resulted in:
modprobe: modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.4.18-rmk7-pxa3-embedix/modules.dep (No such file or directory) (repeats 6 times)
mount: Mounting /dev/mmcda1 on /mnt/card failed: No such device or address
The entry in /etc/fstab showed:
/dev/mmcda1 /mnt/card auto noauto, owner 0 0
(everything points to the module not being found)
I tried to copy everything from modules.rom to modules, chmod 777 to modules.dep, but still the same results. oh well, nothing else I can try. Hope this info helps
