Re: Familiar for iPAQ h5450 issues

My replies are below.

Milan Plzik wrote:
> 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).
>   
I'm thinking mine could be a hardware issue.
>> 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)
>   

hang: not responding to keyboard input through minicom and no kernel 
panic. Will not respond to sysrq.
Version 100.5.39
>   
>> 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... .
>   
total freeze ...
>   
>> 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.
>   
I can live with that.
>   Also, I would double check familiar kernel has everything neccessary
> compiled in (e.g. support for NAT or bridging).
>   
I was going to look at a dev env and then a custom build of the kernel 
if everything else failed.
>   
>> Thanks for your help in advance.
>>     
>
> 	Milan
>
>   
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