Re: Dual Sleeve Problem

At 12:58 PM 10/16/01 +0200, Brendan Crowley (EEI) wrote:
>Hi, 
>This may be a bit long winded but please bear with me. 
>I have an iPAQ 3660 with a Dual slot expansion pack, Airlancer wireless
card and 
>1Gb Microdrive. I want to install the Intimate distribution onto it but am
having some 
>problems with Familiar V0.4.
>I have installed the Familiar V0.4 as instructed in the installation guide
up to the point 
>where it asks to set up a network connect in order to be able to access
familiar.handhelds.org 
>and perform a ipkg update . The version of the kernel installed is
2.4.3-rmk2-np1. It does 
>not even recognise the Dual slot Expansion pack. I have read that if I
update the kernel to 
>2.4.4-rmk3-np2 and install the hotplug package that it should work. So I
still have a few questions: 
>1) How to I upgrade the kernel to the new one?? 

Simple documentation for upgrading kernels was never developed as these kernel
images were just experimentally available.  At this point I think I would
recommend upgrading to the current pre-release of v0.5 if you must use the
dual-sleeve.  See

http://familiar.handhelds.org/releases/v0.5/

Please note that this is not an official release and as such be aware that you
would be installing something that is inherently incomplete.  I can verify
that
the dual-sleeve works with v0.5-pre, I can't comment on the Airlancer card
as I
am not familiar with it.

>2) Will this effect the installation of Intimate, as I know that Intimiate
is 
>dependant on certain Familiar packages being available. It states release
version 
>of Familiar 0.4 only? 

For Intimate issues you need to contact the Intimate community, I do not use
Intimate.

>3) The Familiar 0.4 installation has some futher steps mentioned and a
Where to from here which 
>lists other packages that may be installed. What are the minimum number of
packages needed 
>in order for the Intimiate installation to work. 

Same answer as above.

>Any help regarding this would be greatly appreciated. 
>Brendan. 
>-- 

In the future I highly recommend that you use the community resources that we
have available such as the mailing lists and IRC channels to request support.

Ken Causey (nikos)