IRC log for #openzaurus on 20071206

00:38.00dougztrGuess I'm having a conversation with myself. Oh well. Yeah I switched to to Opie and it's running much better. Wireless card is working, looks good!
00:40.37CoreDumpOpie is the preferred UI for QVGA screens, yes
00:41.16dougztrI gave up on the Netgear MA701 and bought and ambicom. its working fine
00:42.07dougztrI had to delete all the orinoco-modules ipks, then reboot.
00:43.41dougztrCoreDump: so if I have OZ installed to my SD card on a loopback file, if my batteries go completely dead I won't lose anything like on the stock ROM's right?
00:44.16CoreDumpright
00:44.26CoreDumpyou might have to worry about FS corruption tho
00:45.13dougztrIt doesn't sync before it goes to sleep?
00:45.54CoreDumpthat it does
00:46.11CoreDumpbut if your battery dies while it is running, you may have a problem ;)
00:47.02dougztrOIC, I picked up some BL-08's and modified them to fit, still waiting on the special battery covers to arrive from canada though
00:47.50dougztrI've had this thing for like four years now, and its finally becoming usefull, lol
00:50.23dougztrHmm I just upgraded the system, rebooted, and now the wireless isnt working, hmm
00:52.38dougztrcrap now it says its an unsupported card after the system upgrade
00:59.11dougztrIts an AmbiCom WL1100C card, what ipk should I download to bootstrap it? I'll just copy it to a CF card and install the thing locally.
00:59.54CoreDumppull the card and reinsert it
01:01.26dougztrIt activates the card, then when i pick the cf icon it says unsupported card, when i go to configure it wants me to bind it to something but wlan0 isn't on the list
01:02.15CoreDumpI alway configure it manually via /etc/network/interfaces. When done, I copy a working interfaces file away and restore it after flashing a new rootfs.
01:03.42dougztroh, how to I switch vt's?
01:04.56dougztrdmesg is reporting its a sa1100
01:09.02dougztrguess I need to put the orinoco modules back now
01:11.10CoreDumpFn-LeftArrow & Fn-RightArrow
01:11.27CoreDumpI think...
01:11.35CoreDumpor Calendar instead of Fn
01:12.45dougztrcalendar seems to work
01:14.51dougztrok the ambicom is supposed to be based on the prism chipset, so i need the wlan-ng modules I think
01:16.30CoreDumpno, prism 2* is hostap (which should have been installed by default)
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01:35.59dougztr... gonna install a non-upgraded root filesystem and look into this
01:36.54dougztrI would so like to get my Z all sorted out and working nicely
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01:50.19dougztrHmm maybe I shouldn't have deleted the orinoco modules, it took the release rom a long time to dhcp but it worked
01:51.08dougztrIt detected the card as a prism2
01:59.53dougztrOh this sucks! After the "Package Manager
02:01.06dougztr* -> Actions -> Upgrade, it kills my wlan card, this is the 2nd card I've bought now trying to get my Zaurus online
02:11.57dougztrDo I need to change all my package manager feeds to feeds.openzaurus.org ?
02:12.47CoreDumponly if the feeds 404 for you
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02:24.42dougztrI figured it out, downgrading hostap and hostap-cs fixed it. Is there a way I can "lock-in" that version?
02:28.10dougztrCoreDump: Oh one other thing, what size loopback rootfs file do you suggest for a 1G SD card? I'm not too familiar with all the OZ apps yet
02:28.42CoreDumpabout 200Mb should be more than enough
02:30.30dougztrCoreDump: Ok, I'll go with 256Mb then, nice even number. I have the hostap ipks on my "setup" cf card now
02:36.33dougztrCoreDump: Oh, when you first install Oz, it loads itself to internal flash or something. can that be erased and a rootfs.gz file put there for altboot to intall onto SD cards without having to use a CF card?
02:36.51CoreDumpno
02:37.09dougztrJust leave it be?
02:37.24CoreDumpyes, if you trash it, it won't boot anymoe
02:37.45dougztrWell I know you'd have to leave some things, like altboot there
02:38.45dougztrDo you work on Angstrom?
02:39.34CoreDumpsometimes, yes
02:40.26dougztrAny hope for collie to get support there? I've seen a couple new files there, but I don't think I can figure out how to run it on my 5500 yet
02:43.44CoreDumpCan't say sorry
02:47.46dougztrIf I can finally get my 5500 working nice, I might set up my Netwinder again for a development machine for it
02:51.52dougztrI just wish it had a FPU, its a neat little thing. noisy though
02:54.25CoreDumpyou don't wann develop on that thing, really
02:54.32CoreDumpa compile would take _days_
02:55.12dougztrLol, yeah probably, an arm emulator would be lightyears faster. I should probably sell the thing off
02:55.46CoreDumpyou should cross-compile like everybody else
02:56.50dougztrI don't do a lot of c programming anymore though, I'm a mech engy. Most of my stuff is python programs now, getting old I guess
03:07.29dougztrw00t! It worked! I made a 256Mb loopback root, upgraded it, then downgraded the hostap to the 0.3.9-r7 packages, rebooted, and it came back up with wifi!
03:08.00dougztrCoreDump: Thank you so much for your helpful chat and moral support :-)
03:08.15CoreDumpyou're welcome ;)
03:13.12dougztrCoreDump: what are the typical Opie apps? Konqueror, Abiword, what about a SS? any other recommended things?
03:13.47CoreDumpabiword is not opie
03:14.04CoreDumpand there is no Opie SS that I know of
03:14.17CoreDumpI haven't used opie in a loooong time
03:15.03dougztrprobably the hancom apps will work with it, have the ipks somewhere
03:15.36CoreDumpthey won't
03:15.52CoreDumpopie has changed too much and hancom was never updated
03:16.01dougztrCoreDump: Oh well
03:16.34dougztrCoreDump: thats why I was trying to install GPE earlier, but it ran too slowly on this old 5500
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05:53.50dougztrHosh! Anybody still up? How do you set xmms-embedded to shuffle mode?
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19:29.25gmadhello everybody!
19:46.25gmadI am interesting in instalation XFCE on OZ, could you advice me something?
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