5600 + OpenZaurus 3.3.6 pre1

[refriedChicken]

Instal went fine and all appears to work except:

Browsing the internet via my wireless network (OZ sees the card and has the right info, but Konqueror can\'t seem to find any of the sites I try to find).  Any Ideas?

and

Text jacking up my screen.  When I do something in OPIE, what appears to be echo or debug text starts scrolling on the screen.  I recall someone having a similar problem and was wondering about a work around.

[refriedChicken]

Well, until this gets figured out I found 3.3.4 and all works wonderful.

[hkphooey]

I\'ve just installed 3.3.6 on my 5600 and got exactly the same problems. Always comforting to know you\'re not alone eh? ;-)

The problem seems to be with DHCP - OZ can find and connect to the Access point OK. If WEP is off, then it gets an IP address, but no DNS servers. If WEP is on, it gets neither IP nor DNS servers. I\'m trying to figure this out right now.

The text scrolling is indeed irritating - once it starts, it makes it very difficult to do anything on screen, as all the buttons move up with the screen. As far as I can see its something to do with the system messages produced when OZ can\'t find a network card. This was reduced a lot once I disabled the usb0 ethernet interface using the Network Settings applet.

[hkphooey]

OK, here we go. This is what I did, which solved most of the problems:

Text Scrolling Problem:
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I love this one -- such a quick fix and it improves the usability immeasurably
 - Open Konsole
 - Type \'su\' to become root (no quotes)
 - Type \'echo 1 ] /proc/sys/kernel/printk\' (no quotes)
Nice and clean now ... you might have to redraw the screen.
So that you don\'t have to do this every time you reboot, you can add it to the  /etc/init.d/rc.local script.

Now that you can actually see what you\'re doing ...

The Can\'t Connect to My Access Point / DHCP Problem
===================================
If you don\'t have WEP enabled:
 - Open Konsole
 - Type \'su\' to become root (no quotes)
 - Type \'ifconfig\'  to find out what your wireless card is. Mine was called wlan0, so I\'ll use that (nb, wlan zero, not capital oh)
 - Type \'udhcpc -i wlan0\' which should tell you you now have DNS servers.
Try accessing the internet, or just ping www.yahoo.com to see if you can find it. If this still doesn\'t work try
 - Type \'route\' . You\'re looking to see if you have a gateway configured. I didn\'t, so I did the next step to get one
 - Type \'route add -net default gw 192.168.0.1 netmask 0.0.0.0 metric 1 wlan0\'

Now ping works and Konqueror does as well. Note that I haven\'t got this to work over a WEP connection, and I had to disable WEP  on my Access Point to get this far.

Now having solved this in a touchy feely sort of way, I still have no idea about the underlying causes for this behaviour. If anyone with a more detailed knowledge of the underlying OZ OS, would care to enlighten me, I\'ll stick it all in a report to the OZ crew and hopefully they\'ll be able to fix it in the next iteration.

[hkphooey]

WEP problems.
===========
Got these working after a mere 5 hours hacking around with iwconfig. It seems that iwconfig won\'t let you alter the Network settings for some reason. Anyway, I finally figured out that you need to supply the WEP key in HEX, not ASCII in the network settings App - all 104 bits of it. Once you\'ve done that, the AP will give you an IP address. Then you use the udhcpc and route commands above, to get it on the net.

[humit]

hi all,

i got my sl-5600 almost 2 weeks ago and since then I am reflashing, rebooting, formatting it everyday to find the taste that I have with my desktop linux

i installed oz 3.3.6-pre, and the first thing was that ts: messages destroying launcher, as mentioned above, turning printk off (kernel messages) with echo 1 ] /proc/sys/kernel/printk solves it.
Second and yet unresolved issue is the date/time reset, whenever I reboot or reset the Z, upon the opening it brings the dialog which says something like \"your system date/time appears to be incorrect, do you want to run the config app\" but if I can\'t tap on the close button (x on the upper right corner) just when it appears than Z seems frozen.

btw any mailing lists on sl-5600, oz, or Z in general?

[cgav8r]

refried,

Where can one find the 3.3.4 image files?  I am interested in trying OZ on my 5600 but my attempts with the 3.3.6 didn\'t impress me.

[yeswarchief]

hkphooey, i was able to follow your instructions and connect with WEP enabled. thanks!!!

my question is, regarding the rc.local file, i was only able to find a file called \'rc\'. if this is the startup script, at which point should i include the \'echo 1 ] /proc/sys/kernel/printk\' line?

[nixmeister]

You should create a file called /etc/rc.d/rc.local (make sure it\'s executable) and put the echo in there. Then go to /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/ and create a symbolic link to it, and name it S99rc.local, or something like that. That way it should be the last script executed on startup. Now, realize I don\'t have OZ on here currently, so I\'m not sure if that\'s the appropriate place to actually put the echo. You may want it turned on earlier, like when opie starts, but since I don\'t have an OZ in front of me now I can\'t look at those init scripts

here\'s how it looks on my workstation boxen (same principle on the Z):
ls -l /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S99local
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           11 Feb 28  2003 /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S99local -] ../rc.local*


ls -l /etc/rc.d/rc.local
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          647 Feb  4 16:03 /etc/rc.d/rc.local

[wolfman]

I must have done something wrong as I was not able to locate /etc/rc.d/rc5.5/ though there is a /etc/rc5.d/ I still was not able to get this to take on a reboot.  I am sure its because I am not doing the ln command properly.  I will just have to work on it some more.

[lardman]

You have to put it in before *opie (give it a filename with a smaller number) as this script never returns.

rc5.d is correct.

Si

P.S. Actually you could just stick it in the start of the /etc/init.d/opie script

[sikity]

- Type \'udhcpc -i wlan0\' which should tell you you now have DNS servers.  

one thing I noticed when running this command on 3.3.6 pre OZ on a 5600 was that i received an error in /usr/share/udhcpc/default.script
that said
route command not found
I edited that file and added /sbin/ infront of the route commands and that seems to have fixed the networking issue for me.

[wolfman]

Thanks I will give it a whirl later this evening.

[wolfman]

lardman,

Thanks that worked great.

[Hyrcan]

How did you manage to install files?  When I installed onto the SD card from:
http://www.openzaurus.org/official/unstabl....5/SL5600/ipks/
It totally hosed the installs...same with using other ipks... it tried to sym link /mnt/card as / then  installed the files on /mnt/card but then it went back and created symlinks to all of the files... but put them in the folders that the original files were located at... thus over writing the executable...