Re: Another go at Familiar
"Paul Eggleton" <[email protected]>
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Fafler wrote: > With Opie i can't receive files via bluetooth. It seems to be a known bug, > but are there any solution for it? The bluetooth stuff is a bit flaky and unfinished, I agree. I'm working on this for the next version of Opie (1.2.4). > The cradle doesn't have a serial port. I have a spare cradle for my h3900. > Can i gut it and put it inside the h2200 cradle? You could, I believe, since the cables are identical. You could also try to add serial to the h2200 cradle. Some useful information: http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/HpIpaqSerialCable http://toykeeper.net/ipaq/cradle > The SD card works, but only if the card is formatted with the ext2 > filesystem. No luck with fat. I think this is just a matter of making sure the appropriate kernel module (vfat) is installed and that the /etc/fstab entry for the card has its type set to "auto" and not "ext2" or similar. > There seem to be a lot of interesting software to try out on my new large > root file system, but most of it is for Familiar 0.8.2 or even earlier > versions. Can i add the sources to my ipkg system and expect it to work? I think most packages from 0.8.2 should be compatible with 0.8.4, yes. > If the above doesn' t work, can i install a complete build system on the > ipaq and build the software locally? How? Native building on the iPAQ is more trouble than it's worth - cross-compilation is the way to go. One way to do this is to use a build system such as OpenEmbedded (familiar-build, which was used to build Familiar 0.8.x, is based on an older version of OE). > And finally. Is Familiar 0.8.4 going to be the last version ever released? Well, I can't speak for the Familiar developers as they have been pretty silent on this issue, and there hasn't been much activity for a while AFAICT. However, there are other more up-to-date distributions that support the iPAQ. Cheers, Paul _______________________________________________ The Familiar Linux Distribution Familiar mailing list [email protected] https://handhelds.org/mailman/listinfo/familiar irc://irc.freenode.net #familiar