Re: Familiar for iPAQ h5450 issues

On Št, 2007-12-06 at 21:50 +1000, Thomas James wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've ran familiar in the past (0.7.0, 0.7.2 and 0.8.0) on a 3660 and all 
> was great (except for the lack of hardware wifi and bluetooth).
> 
> I've had a h5450 for a long while now running CE and i've finally 
> replaced the functions i use with other devices. So i decided to give 
> familiar another go.
> 
> Since doing that i've probably wasted a good 3 days and i'm still no 
> closer to having a working (eg screen, wifi and bluetooth) system. I've 
> tried 0.8.4, 0.8.2 and 0.8.0 opie, gpe and bootstrap.

  Weird, from what I know, these things work on my h5550 with familiar
(screen worked correctly, wifi and bluetooth had some issues).

> 
> Bootstrap gave me the best support but would hang when doing any network 
> interface operation (even after removing the modules from the init).

  What exactly do you mean with 'hang' ? And, to ask in advance, what
version of wifi firmware do you have installed? 0.x or 1.103.x (the
former is WEP-only and supported by driver in familiar, the latter is
WPA-enabled and not yet supported by any driver)

> 
> All the others, well i've had any number of the following problems:
> 
> - hangs at usb-eth module init (after printing the message), fixed by 
> removing it from the cradle (even when the usb cable is not plugged in 
> anyway)
> - hangs at the proc message (a couple of resets fixed that, thanks to 
> this list)
> - hangs at networking (ctrl-c will allow it to continue)
> - hangs after tainted module warnings (nothing will allow it to continue)
> - on gpe hangs at the updates then the gpe calibration screen appears 
> but doesnt accept input.
> - opie will boot to a login prompt but nothing on the lcd screen.
> 

  If hang doesn't mean total freeze of system, please include output
from dmesg, otherwise there is not much we can do... .

> Would love to get these fixed. If anyone has a custom build/suggestions 
> etc please throw them at me.
> 
> All i want is a linux bluetooth based wifi access point. Eg. WiFi in 
> master mode, bluetooth dialup to the mobile phone providing 3.5g 
> internet access for non-bluetooth devices (iPod touch & psp). If you 
> have other suggestions on how to achieve this i am all ears ( and dont 
> suggest a laptop! )

  I'm afraid you will not be able to to use wifi in master mode -- it
only supports ad-hoc and managed mode, so i would stick to ad-hoc. There
are also some problems with bluetooth under heavy load from what I
heard, but I have not done any tests by myself.

  Also, I would double check familiar kernel has everything neccessary
compiled in (e.g. support for NAT or bridging).

> 
> 
> Thanks for your help in advance.

	Milan

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