OpenZaurus 3.5.1 released !!!

[tunemx]

Had my wlan settings worked once. Then I removed my Wifi card. It forgot everything. Now I can't setup the damn thing...

Try a reboot from the Settings->Shutdown app.

Are you using WEP or any kind of security on your Wireless network?

thanks, it works after got rebooted...

But who will solve the Package Manager mistery? Are old ipks still work? If no, how do I get them working?

[macwiz]

I tried using ipkg from the console. But I guess that I don't know enough about telling ipkg where to stick things... first I tried to install to Opera from a CF to Internal Memory - so called -  and ran out of space.

(Using 32/32 zImage on a SL5500... Looking in System Info shows that ipkg was trying to install to /dev/root. How do I tell ipkg to install to what System info calls 'Internal Memory'? System Info lists 2 Internal Memories; one 31729 kb, other 15069 kb, both almost completely free. What/where are they? I know 32 Mb was given over to 'Memory', so what is System Info saying?)

Anyway, wiser people than I could probably use ipkg to install local files if they know what they are about!

[JohnKiniston]

I'm wondering if the 32mb 'Internal Memory' is a bug, I'm using a 64/0 image and I see that in the System Info screen myself as well as my /dev/root and SD Card.

Total memory shows ~62mb which makes me think the 64/0 image is working.

[jamesm]

RE: The pesky Wireless/WEP/DHCP problems I was encountering earlier, I've come up with the following work around... If someone points me in the right direction I'll be happy to have a look at why opie isn't managing this from the Network app.

1.   Under Settings->Network ensure that you're working with wlan0 and NOT wifi0 (I've not worked out what this is for yet)
2.   A quick Rescan Neighbourhood should allow you to discover your AP, select it and then fill in any missing bits on the General tab (e.g. SSID, Channel etc)
3.   Don't bother with the Encryption tab as it doesn't appear to do anything.
4.   In the TCP/IP tab, select the Automatically bring up and DHCP tick boxes (Unless you're specifying an IP/Subnet/DNS etc)
5.   Now to get WEP working, open a console and type the following:

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iwconfig wlan0 key s:password [1]Replace "password" with your WEP key. The [1] in brackets denotes which (of the 4 available) keys you're setting, [1] is fine in our case. The s: allows us to enter our key in ASCII rather than HEX.
6.   Now type:

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iwlist wlan0 key You should be presented with a hex representation of your new key and some other information.
7.   Now to bring up the adaptor and get an IP address from the dhcp server type:

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ifup wlan08.   You should see the usual Linux DHCP messages along with a successfully assigned IP address and DNS servers added to your resolv.conf automatically.
9.   Test it out by pinging a webserver or two.

Hope this will help people out in the future, I couldn't find all of that in one place anywhere so it took a bit of fiddling.

Now wlan is working, where did I put that Opera browser....

[lardman]

I'm wondering if the 32mb 'Internal Memory' is a bug, I'm using a 64/0 image and I see that in the System Info screen myself as well as my /dev/root and SD Card.

I was wondering about that too.

I tried using ipkg from the console. But I guess that I don't know enough about telling ipkg where to stick things... first I tried to install to Opera from a CF to Internal Memory - so called - and ran out of space.

(Using 32/32 zImage on a SL5500... Looking in System Info shows that ipkg was trying to install to /dev/root. How do I tell ipkg to install to what System info calls 'Internal Memory'? System Info lists 2 Internal Memories; one 31729 kb, other 15069 kb, both almost completely free. What/where are they? I know 32 Mb was given over to 'Memory', so what is System Info saying?)

Anyway, wiser people than I could probably use ipkg to install local files if they know what they are about!

Edit /etc/ipkg.conf and add a new dest line which points to the location you want to make available. E.g. I might add a new one like this:

dest user /home/user

Which will stick stuff in my home partition (you'll need to create the /home/user directory).

Then use ipkg like so:

ipkg install -d user blah-blah.ipk

Shame the package manager has got rid of the local packages tab which it used to have. I suppose there's a script somewhere which creates a Package file for a load of ipks in a directory (which is what I have on my CF card). Then we can add a feed and go from there.

Anyway, great work guys!!


Si

Si

[r0bin]

hmm i think im going to try the 64/0 kernel, i need more space for apps hehe

edit:  that x based one looks good, when?

[cybrjackle]

I'm a little slow, but I don't see the "initrd" in:

http://openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.1/sl5000,sl5500/

Is it not needed anymore?

Do I only need to flash it with just the Zimage?

thx

[Cwiiis]

I'm a little slow, but I don't see the "initrd" in:

http://openzaurus.org/official/unstable/3.5.1/sl5000,sl5500/

Is it not needed anymore?

Do I only need to flash it with just the Zimage?

thx

You need to rename the .jffs2 file to initrd.bin and flash like that.


gpe-image for collie is now finished and will be available in the morning - Sorry for the delay, but definitely worth it in my opinion

[cybrjackle]

Thank you!

[superbondbond]

I too noticed the discrepancy in the memory shown in Opie's System Info.

I flashed the 64-0 image, and System Info shows 32 MB total .
If I go to the command line and use 'free' I see 64 MB total.

One other thing I've noticed is if I switch to terminal 1 from the O-menu, the backlight will follow my apm settings as if the unit were idle. ie: dims after 30 seconds, off after 60, even if I've been typing on the keyboard. Once I switch back to terminal 2/OPIE, the light comes back on.

[Hrw]

That 32MiB of "internal memory" in opie-sysinfo is tmpfs used for /var/ - it's harmless, it's use RAM as storage but occupy only as much memory as it needs.

http://openembedded.org/oe_wiki/index.php/OzReleaseNotes has current notes about release. And it is wiki so everyone can add some info. We will use those notes to improve next releases of OZ.

About feed - You shouldn't use any external feeds - they rather won't work with OZ 3.5.1 due to many changes (soft-float, gcc 3.x etc). We provided our feed (little late but it is) and will provide "upgrades" to packages with problems.

[omro]

Is there a list anywhere that says what each file in the feed is, and does, and what each one is related to, if they are?

[tunemx]

Very nice, this feed is!
It is having all my fav apps (mileage, keyring, zauralign, gaim), I hope Package Manager will be able to set it too! Yesterday I was unable to set any feeds for the Z... It kept constantly forgetting any feeds I was trying to set. Wish me more luck tonight.  

[Cwiiis]

In regards to opie-packagemanager, please check the release notes on the wiki - OzReleaseNotes

[lardman]

Is there a list anywhere that says what each file in the feed is, and does, and what each one is related to, if they are?

The Packages file in the feed directory is a text file containing this info (it's for ipkg to use, but can be read as it's just plain text).

Si