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| 01:11.52 | Egonis | Can someone point me to an Install HOWTO for my iPaq H4150? |
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| 01:57.48 | *** join/#familiar Moopsy (~Monty@203.142.146.237) |
| 01:59.08 | Moopsy | Hi, my name's Lang. I'm looking for a bit of info on familiar linux. Have I come to the right place? |
| 02:00.07 | emte | what would you liek to know? |
| 02:00.49 | emte | btw your hostname says your monty |
| 02:00.51 | emte | :) |
| 02:01.04 | Moopsy | Monty is a nickname. :) |
| 02:01.08 | Moopsy | I've got a few questions |
| 02:01.13 | emte | i can try |
| 02:01.49 | Moopsy | I'm trying to use an IPAQ 3600 with a TDK bluetooth/CF card sleeve to get data of a radar using virtual com ports. |
| 02:02.39 | Moopsy | 2.4.19-rmk6 isn't recognising the tdk sleeve |
| 02:03.00 | emte | hmm, your already beyond me since i didnt know bluetooth could pickup radar |
| 02:03.27 | Moopsy | Oh. Oops. Explanation needed. |
| 02:03.44 | emte | you would also need to check that your bluetooth card is supported |
| 02:03.45 | Moopsy | I'm the programmer for a geophysical research group at the University of Sydney. |
| 02:04.05 | Moopsy | We built the radar, it has a bluetooth chip embedded. :) |
| 02:04.13 | Moopsy | The card doesn't seem to be supported. |
| 02:04.25 | emte | ah so the radar is a bluetooth link |
| 02:04.45 | emte | you have a few options for your card |
| 02:04.47 | Moopsy | "h3600_sleeve_insert: unrecognized sleeve vendor=0x0107 device=0xbcbc" |
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| 02:05.35 | emte | primarily you should check the kernel lists and see if your card is supported by any linux kernel version |
| 02:06.27 | Moopsy | Alright. This is where my familiar questions come in. Does familiar just run an ARM build of the standard kernel? |
| 02:06.31 | emte | depending on that outcome you will discover your next course of action |
| 02:06.49 | emte | as far as i know, no |
| 02:07.09 | emte | since some PDA's dont use a strongarm chip |
| 02:07.48 | Moopsy | Sorry. I'm mean is it just a build of the standard kernel, or are there custom mods for handhelds? |
| 02:07.56 | emte | since youre a researcher you should be aware that familiar is changing ... |
| 02:08.03 | emte | custom mods |
| 02:08.12 | emte | primarily to do with powermanagment |
| 02:08.16 | Moopsy | Ahh. |
| 02:08.59 | emte | to continue with what i was saying, familiar is switching to openembeded |
| 02:09.05 | emte | when, i do not know |
| 02:09.30 | emte | OZ as well is switching to openembeded |
| 02:09.50 | emte | which is the open distro for the zaurus |
| 02:09.57 | Moopsy | Ahh. That was one of my other questions: The web page seems out of date in places. I wondered whether the project was still going. |
| 02:10.12 | Moopsy | Alright. |
| 02:10.33 | emte | there is a new wiki which is mostly more upto date but is also missing a lot |
| 02:10.52 | emte | on a side note |
| 02:11.12 | emte | if your using a sleve anyway and have an extra slot |
| 02:11.27 | emte | you might want to check initimate |
| 02:11.34 | emte | i've not used it yet myself |
| 02:11.46 | emte | as it requires 140MB min install |
| 02:12.06 | emte | and i do not have a CF for mine |
| 02:12.22 | Moopsy | I was thinking about that. This first handheld is just a prototype, so I could do that once, but we have to be able to produce lots of these later... |
| 02:12.24 | emte | i belive it is also a new project on handhelds.org |
| 02:12.54 | Moopsy | The handhelds go underground with the radar (it's a borehole radar, used for mapping out mineral deposits in mines). |
| 02:12.56 | emte | then you might really want to findout about the openembeded status |
| 02:13.16 | Moopsy | I'm heading over to their webpage now... |